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

Legal risks. Reputational risks. Financial and operational risks. You could use your expertise to help safeguard our business from it all. Join our Conduct, Financial Crime & Compliance Surveillance Monitoring & Investigation team and you’ll be a gatekeeper to the financial system and fight crime. This opens up exciting opportunities to work on complex cases, collaborate on a global scale and be part of major breakthroughs. You’ll have the flexibility, freedom and trust to get the job done. From identifying suspicious activities to understanding compliance policies and global regulations, you’ll do meaningful work that keeps our business and communities safe. 

About our Technology and Operations Team

Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.  When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.    

Job Summary

The Name Screening analyst is responsible for performing in-depth screening of customer names and related entities against watchlists, sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and adverse media. This role is crucial in ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and mitigating the risk of financial crime for the organization.

Key Responsibilities: •    Perform name screening using internal systems and third-party databases to identify potential matches with sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media. •    Analyze and evaluate matches to determine if they are true hits or false positives. •    Escalate confirmed hits to senior analysts or management for further review. •    Maintain accurate records of screening outcomes and investigations. •    Ensure data integrity and confidentiality in line with company policies and regulatory requirements. •    Stay updated on global sanctions, PEPs, and other regulatory requirements. •    Ensure screening processes are aligned with relevant laws and internal compliance policies. •    Provide timely and accurate reports on screening activities. •    Identify process inefficiencies and suggest improvements to enhance the effectiveness of screening tools and procedures. •    Participate in regular training to stay informed about emerging risks and best practices in compliance and financial crime prevention.  

Key Responsibilities

• Perform name screening using internal systems and third-party databases to identify potential matches with sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
• Analyze and evaluate matches to determine if they are true hits or false positives.
• Escalate confirmed hits to senior analysts or management for further review.
• Maintain accurate records of screening outcomes and investigations.
• Ensure data integrity and confidentiality in line with company policies and regulatory requirements.
• Stay updated on global sanctions, PEPs, and other regulatory requirements.
• Ensure screening processes are aligned with relevant laws and internal compliance policies.
• Provide timely and accurate reports on screening activities.
• Identify process inefficiencies and suggest improvements to enhance the effectiveness of screening tools and procedures.
• Participate in regular training to stay informed about emerging risks and best practices in compliance and financial crime prevention.
• Undertake Quality Control reviews to test the validity and appropriateness of, and business compliance with, financial crime policies and procedures.
• Collate, analyse and interpret data to produce reports that help the bank identify and manage emerging areas of risk / vulnerability and support in remediation actions within the respective function.

Skills and Experience

Qualifications

Any Bachelors Degree

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.