Job Summary

Perform Quality Control through monthly sample review. Mainly focus on Screening but may support other workstream after cross function training such as Transaction Monitoring.

Strategy

• Ensure that there is adequate support (people, processes, tools, frameworks, systems) in the respective team for necessary FCC controls. 

Business

• Support relevant stakeholders to make decisions based on current and possible future policies, practices, and trends

Processes

• Perform quality control process as stated in the DOI’s and by employing a risk-based approach to address financial crime/money laundering risks
• Assist in publishing quality control results and participate/lead discussions with the investigative teams to highlighted identified exceptions and thematic trends, if any
• Adhere to expected deadlines as stated in the DOI’s and recommend appropriate process/DOI changes  

Key Responsibilities

People & Talent

• Promote and embed a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy compliant conduct is the norm.
• Stimulate an environment where forward planning, prioritisation, deadline management and streamlined workflows and collaborative, inclusive yet effective and efficient work practices are the norm.

Risk Management

• Inform senior management and relevant regulators of serious regulatory breaches (or where risk tolerances have been breached) and ensure that actions are taken quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased.
• QC outcome including supervisory checks to be performed / shared with OR testing team for performance of CST/KCI.

Governance

• Propose process improvements, enhancements and simplifications where appropriate.
• Be accountable for identification and escalation of potential risks and issues to senior management through appropriate governance channels and the Quality Control Outcome framework.
• In the event of serious regulatory breaches, or where risk tolerances have been breached, ensure senior management are informed and that actions are taken quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased.

Skills and Experience

• Compliance Policies and Standards    
• Compliance Advisory    
• Compliance Review and FCC Assurance    
• Surveillance (including Screening and Monitoring)    
• Investigations    
• Compliance Risk Assessment    

Qualifications

3-5 years of relevant work experience in the following areas:

•    AML and terrorist financing Transaction Monitoring investigation/surveillance skills •    Awareness of key Money laundering regulations, financial crime patterns and the ability to understand the money laundering risks involved in the products and services offered by the bank •    Awareness of Transaction Monitoring systems (e.g. Actimize, Norkom. Mantas) •    Analysis skills: able to analyse 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. •    Sanctions and screening (PEP, adverse media and transaction) surveillance skills •    Banking: knowledge in terms of customers, products and transactions with expertise in at least one customer segment (retail, corporate and institutional banking, private banking, correspondent banking, Trade) •    Banking operations experience (Client Due Diligence, payments, trade, markets or other) and service-oriented attitude. •    Excellent communication in English (articulation and writing).  

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.