Specialist - Financial Crime Surveillance Unit null

About Us

We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit.  It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviors - do the right thing, better together, and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.

We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realize their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organization. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.

The role responsibilities

Processes;

• Manage and/or resolve alerts/cases.
• Follow the Correspondent/Non-Correspondent Banking  DOI to process risk events in line with Assess, Analyse, Act (AAA) process.
• Do further analysis and escalations using knowledge about complex products

People and Talent;

• Promote and embed a culture of openness, trust, and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory, and policy-compliant conduct is the norm.

Risk Management;

• Analyse significant financial crime risk events (e.g. non-compliant transactions, production orders) to ensure that all connected parties, particularly cross-border are identified and reported at the appropriate levels internally across all relevant jurisdictions.
• Apply Group and FCC policies and processes (AML surveillance, client screening, risk assessment) to manage risks.

Governance;

• In the event of serious regulatory breaches, or where risk tolerances have been breached, ensure senior management is informed and that actions are taken quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased.
• Support all control checks undertaken by FCC under the Operational Risk Framework (ORF).

Project/change management;

• Review new business requirements and provide solutions where required.

Regulatory & Business Conduct;

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead the FCSU to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] 
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act by Articles of Association (or equivalent) 

Key Stakeholders;

• FCC Controls representatives in groups and countries.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in FCSU,
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Our Ideal Candidate

For Grade B: 0 to 1 year of relevant work experience in the following areas:

• AML and terrorist financing surveillance skills in relation the respective country jurisdictions, and client types.
• Analysis skills: able to analyze data trends and out of pattern activities, working knowledge of Internet and MS Office Suite & independently assimilate, analyse and evaluate information from disperse data sources to determine a course of action (e.g. case closure or escalation), and record and communicate this decision clearly and concisely.
• Banking: knowledge in terms of customers, products and transactions with expertise in at least one customer segment (retail, corporate, private banking, correspondent banking)
• Banking operations experience (Client Due Diligence, payments, trade, markets or other) and service-oriented attitude.
• Excellent communication in English (articulation and writing).