Our Team

Financial Crime Surveillance Operations (FCSO) is the Bank’s specialized unit serving as the 1st Line of Defence (1LOD). FCSO plays a pivotal role in the Bank’s fight against financial crime and is responsible for managing the risk across all of the Bank’s processes and ensuring an effective control environment. At FCSO, highly skilled AML specialists ensure that risk events are reviewed, red flags are analysed, and escalation and resolution are managed. 

FCSO Department was one of the first departments opened in Standard Chartered in Poland, with more than 160 colleagues currently employed. 

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the investigative process of identifying unusual activity from initial detection thorough research, analysis, description, until completion with recommending a decision.
• Be responsible for data entry related to tracking and documenting all investigative steps.
• Seek and apply best practices to deliver an expected number of quality investigations while actively performing a timely delivery of assigned tasks in accordance to Group and FCC’s Policies.
• Provide quality checks to investigations performed by other analysts in line with applicable policies and procedures (within 12 months after the role start date).
• Support development training programs and learning deliveries (including but not limited to shadowing and training sessions).
• Give advice and guidance to other investigators in their daily case investigations.
• Display the confidence, independence and trust of others through honesty, integrity and authenticity.
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Actively develop through feedback as a learning factor.
• Provide honest, clear and constructive feedback to peers, allowing others to learn without being judged.
• Actively build the professional and technical skills necessary to be successful (including but not limited to industry trends, additional trainings and process changes).

Skills and Experience

• Above 3 years of experience in financial services, intelligence or law enforcement; analytic support with demonstrated success and increasing responsibilities.
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of how Money Laundering, Financial Crime and Terrorist Financing works and how to detect it.
• Ability to speak and write clearly, concisely and articulately in English.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel) and ability to learn quickly of new systems/applications.
• Advanced proficiency in Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT).
• Displaying an appropriate knowledge of available sources along with the methods, typologies and trends attendant to potential money laundering, financial crime and terrorism financing to identify possible indicators of these illicit activities in the Bank’s transactional environment.
• Good communication skills. Ability to share knowledge, as well as provide and receive feedback.
• Detail-orientated; Excellent analytical skills.
• Capability to work pro-actively and independently, as well as being part of the team or working group.
• Ability to work under time constraint.
• Flexible work arrangements - min. 1-2 days per week working from our office in Warsaw.

And it would be nice if you had: 

• Correspondent Banking experience. 
• ICA/ACAMS certification.

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.