Job Summary

•    The Lead Investigator is responsible for the oversight, management and strategic delivery of the Group Investigations function within the country and, where required, across the region. The role leads the most significant and sensitive investigations, provides expert advice to senior executives, and ensures investigations are conducted consistently, independently and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and Group standards.
•    The role drives the development of investigative capability, manages key internal and external stakeholder relationships, identifies emerging misconduct and financial crime risks, and oversees the implementation of lessons learned and remediation arising from investigations. 
•    The Lead Investigator acts as the principal investigative advisor for the country, representing Group Investigations before senior governance forums, regulators and law enforcement agencies where required, while promoting a strong culture of integrity, accountability and effective risk management.
•    Lead Investigators must apply standards confidently, make proportionate risk-based decisions when information is incomplete, and delivers clear, defensible high-quality reports with minimal review.
•    Leads or materially supports regulatory and government investigations, production orders and data requests.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Develops and executes investigation strategies for assigned matters. Applies judgement to evolving risks and contributes insights to improve investigative practices.
Business
•    Builds trusted relationships with clients and partner functions. Provides advice, challenge and regular updates on investigation progress and risks.
Processes
•    Leads investigations end-to-end with limited supervision. Determines investigative approach, evaluates evidence, interviews witnesses and subjects, and produces defensible findings.
People & Talent 
•    Shares knowledge and supports colleagues through peer coaching and collaboration.
Risk Management
•    Identifies, assesses and manages investigation-related risks. Works with stakeholders to ensure remediation is appropriately tracked and implemented.

Governance 
•    Ensures investigations comply with all relevant governance, escalation and documentation requirements.
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.
•    Achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders
•    Business and function heads (in SC India, within the ASIA region, and / or Group)
•    HR / ER
•    CFCC (Country, Advisory, Regional)
•    Legal (Country, Advisory, Regional), DGIL, Employment Legal, 
•    GIA
Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for Good and Group’s brand and values in SC India and within the ASIA region.
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Skills and Experience

•    Business Acumen
•    Employment Law
•    Regulatory Framework and Requirements
•    Products and Processes 

Qualifications

•    8+ years substantive background in enforcement actions, investigations or prosecutorial and regulatory agency environment, with local expertise within India primarily and other ASIA markets. 
•    Certified Fraud Examiner accreditation or similar.
•    Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, such as Legal, Business, Finance, or Accountancy.
•    Sharp business acumen with experience of investigations in white collar corporate environment and/or experience advising or managing complex investigations and related risks representing financial institutions. 
•    Demonstrated ability to conduct best practice investigations (remote and physical) with a high level of integrity, independence, resilience, professionalism, pragmatism, and discretion. 
•    Advanced communication skills in English, particularly in report writing and verbal communication. 
•    Understand key features of relevant laws and regulations relevant to Bank and the role of Investigations. 
•    Knowledgeable and sound judgement of business practices, regulatory relationship management and reputational risk in a financial institution. 

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.