Manager, Financial Crime Surveillance Operations - Trade Based Money Laundering

Job Summary

Support the implementation of the Financial Crime Surveillance Operations strategy by escalating appropriate Financial Crime Compliance and Anti Money Laundering surveillance issues and executing activities in line with guidance documents, Group requirements and regulatory expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain thorough knowledge of bank products across all segments (i.e. retail, commercial, private, correspondent banking and trade) and the ability to execute end-to-end investigations across all segments.
• Support relevant stakeholders to make decisions based on current and possible future policies, practices, and trends.
• Keep track of and provide advice to relevant stakeholders on the interpretation and application of regulatory expectations, laws, best practices and policies related to Financial Crime Compliance.
• Day to day processing of Trade Based Money Laundering Monitoring cases and Price Verification alerts in line with procedures and in a timely manner within agreed TAT’s whilst maintaining Quality Control/Quality Assurance results in line with Group and local expectations.
• Support Country Head Financial Crime Surveillance Operations/Regional Head Financial Crime Surveillance Operations with any complex investigations as required.
• Assist the Country Head Financial Crime Surveillance Operations to implement investigation and surveillance standards set by regulators and the Group Financial Crime Compliance function, and Country Financial Crime Compliance.
• Escalation of cases through Financial Crime Surveillance Operations transaction monitoring processes to Country Financial Crime Compliance.
• Understand technical aspects of systems relevant to List Management, CDD, Client Risk Assessments, Name and Transaction Screening, Trade Based Money Laundering, Anti Money Laundering Monitoring and Case Management.
• Inform Line Manager / 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.
• Map risks, quantify the potential impact and escalate where necessary.
• Provide intelligence (to internal forums) on specific clients, client-types and emerging risk typologies.
• Ensure the suitability and quality of case data maintained on enterprise case management systems.
• Propose control improvements, enhancements and simplifications where appropriate.
• Support all control checks undertaken by Financial Crime Surveillance Operations under the Operational Risk Framework.
• Collate, analyses and interpret data in reports.
• Analyze 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 Financial Crime Surveillance Operations function.
  
  

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.