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 quality control process as stated in the Screening DOI’s and by employing a risk-based approach to address financial crime/money laundering risks
• 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.
• Assist in publishing quality control results and participate/lead discussions with the respective teams to highlight identified exceptions and thematic trends if any
• Adhere to expected deadlines as stated in the DOI’s and recommend appropriate process/DOI Changes
• 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

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

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

Risk Management

• Inform 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.
• Understand technical aspects of systems relevant to CDD, Client Risk Assessments, Name Screening and Case Management.
• Plan and ensure a suitable level of readiness for Audit and Regulatory reviews.
• QC outcome including supervisory checks to be shared with OR testing team for performance of CST/KCI. 

Governance

• Instil good governance and tracking mechanisms within Quality Assurance including new joiner deployment (On the Job “OJT” templates), Supervisory checks.
• Propose control improvements, enhancements and simplifications where appropriate.
• Undertake specialist Quality Assurance 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 FCSO function.
• Proactively engage with appropriate stakeholders across the Group and within FCSO to resolve problems/ challenges.
• Collaborate with Country FCC teams and FCSO Functions to ensure consistent application of standards.
• Track significant issues arising from Quality Assurance activities, Audit/ Assurance reviews and regulatory inspections, providing validation of issue closure where necessary and ensuring Management Action Plans are regularly updated.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• FCC Controls representatives in group and country.
• Financial Crime Surveillance Operations (“FCSO”) Functions – Name Screening, Surveillance Academy and Service Delivery Management, Data and Reporting, Risk Managers, etc.
• Risk Framework Owners
• Group Process Owner and associated support functions.
• Operational Risk 
• Audit and Assurance

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in India / FCC Controls/ Name Screening QA. 
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); 

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

4 to 5 years of relevant work experience in the following areas:
For screening: 

• Sanctions and screening (PEP, adverse media and transaction) surveillance skills
• Analysis skills:  able to analyze data, working knowledge of Internet and MS Office Suite & independently assimilate, analyse and evaluate information from disperse data sources to determine a course of action (e.g. case closure or escalation), and record and communicate this decision clearly and concisely.
• Banking: knowledge in terms of customers, products and transactions
• Banking operations experience (Client Due Diligence, payments, trade, markets or other) and service-oriented attitude.

Education         Bachelors Degree
Certifications    ACAMS, ICA, CGSS (Preferred Not Mandatory)
Languages       English

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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