Job Summary

The Transaction Screening Manager (Individual Contributor) is responsible for overseeing and executing end-to-end transaction screening activities to ensure compliance with applicable sanctions regulations and internal policies. This role plays a critical part in identifying and escalating potential sanctions hits, conducting in-depth investigations, and supporting enhancements to screening systems and procedures. The individual will also collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate disposition of alerts, provide subject matter expertise, and contribute to ongoing process improvements in the financial crime compliance space.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform selection of transaction sampling of closed alerts/cases in accordance with the defined QCO sampling methodology.
• Allocate samples to team members, ensured balanced distribution and timely completion of reviews.
• Conduct timely and accurate review and disposition of alerts generated by the transaction screening system.
• Perform detailed investigations on potential sanctions/AML/Internal matches, applying sound judgment and escalation protocols as required.
• Document alert investigations and outcomes clearly, maintaining a strong audit trail and supporting internal and external reviews.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in sanctions/AML screening, offering guidance on complex cases and policy interpretation.
• Consolidate individual testing files and perform a sanity check on the testing data.
• Publish QCO testing results and prepare and share periodic testing summary with governance forums and other stake holders.
• Review perceived QCO errors, providing subject matter expertise (SME) input for Quality Forum discussion and final disposition.
• Ensure adherence to global and local regulatory requirements, including OFAC, UN, EU, and other relevant sanctions regimes.
• Collaborate with Technology, Compliance, and Operations teams to test and enhance screening scenarios and rules.
• Identify trends, anomalies, or gaps in the transaction screening process and suggest improvements or mitigating controls.
• Participate in quality assurance reviews including thematic reviews, internal audits, and regulatory examinations related to transaction screening.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of sanctions laws, enforcement actions, and industry best practices.
• Oversee the OJT of new joiners including training the new joiners.

Skills and Experience

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

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree
• Certification : ACAMS, ICA, CGSS (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.

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