About our Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance Surveillance Monitoring and Investigation Team

• Utilize advanced blockchain analytics tools to monitor transactions for irregularities and red flags.
• Analyze large datasets to detect suspicious activity patterns in cryptocurrency operations.
• Conduct in-depth investigations of suspicious transactions, wallets, and addresses.
• Trace blockchain transactions to identify potential illicit activity (e.g., money laundering, fraud, or sanction violations).

About our Technology and Operations Team

Strategy*

• Awareness and understanding of FCSO’s strategy appropriate to the role.

Business*

• Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which FCSO operates.

Processes*

• FCSO Name Screening, FCSO Transaction Screening and FCSO Transaction Monitoring

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.
• Collaborate with training teams to input to training curriculum to support closing of capability gaps.

Job Summary

The Digital Asset Surveillance QA & Control Analyst is responsible for monitoring, investigating, and mitigating suspicious activities related to cryptocurrency transactions. The role requires expertise in blockchain analytics, financial crime compliance, and regulatory reporting. The analyst will ensure the organization's adherence to anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regulations while protecting stakeholders from illicit activities.

The analyst is also responsible for conducting testing and assessments of controls designed to mitigate financial crime risks, including anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), sanctions, and fraud. The role focuses on ensuring the effectiveness of controls within the Financial Crime Compliance and Surveillance framework and providing recommendations for improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Utilize advanced blockchain analytics tools to monitor transactions for irregularities and red flags.
• Analyze large datasets to detect suspicious activity patterns in cryptocurrency operations.
• Conduct in-depth investigations of suspicious transactions, wallets, and addresses.
• Trace blockchain transactions to identify potential illicit activity (e.g., money laundering, fraud, or sanction violations).
• Collaborate with internal teams to obtain context and insights related to flagged activities.
• Ensure compliance with AML/CTF regulations and global cryptocurrency frameworks.
• Work closely with compliance, risk management, and technology teams to enhance surveillance systems.
• Train internal staff on cryptocurrency compliance risks and detection techniques.
• Provide expert insights and recommendations to improve anti-fraud and AML processes.
• Identify emerging cryptocurrency risks and trends and recommend preventive measures.
• Assist in developing internal policies, procedures, and controls for cryptocurrency transactions.
• Stay informed on evolving regulations, tools, and techniques in the crypto space.
• Perform detailed testing of controls related to financial crime compliance, including Crypto currency surveillance, transaction monitoring, customer due diligence (CDD) and sanctions screening.
• Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of key controls.
• Identify control deficiencies, root causes, and areas for improvement.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for all testing activities, including methodologies, test results, and evidence.
• Prepare detailed reports summarizing control testing results, observations, and recommendations.
• Escalate significant issues or risks to senior management.
• Present findings to relevant stakeholders, including compliance teams and senior leadership.
• Collaborate with control owners to develop and implement remediation plans for identified deficiencies.
• Provide insights and recommendations to strengthen the overall control environment.
• Monitor the status of remediation efforts to ensure timely completion

Skills and Experience

Qualifications

Any Bachelors Degree 

Certified Cryptoasset Anti Financial Crime Specialist (CCAS), Certified Blockchain Security Professional (CBSP), Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator (CCI) - Preferred 

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.