Job Summary

This position strengthens the country’s framework for monitoring transactions, screening activity, and managing exposure to money-laundering and terrorism-financing risks. The role also supports operational risk activities, contributes to financial-crime related projects, and responds to internal and external compliance inquiries.

Key Responsibilities

Business

• Assist in delivering the Financial Crime Surveillance Operations strategy by escalating surveillance concerns and ensuring alignment with global standards and regulatory expectations.
• Maintain strong awareness of the bank’s business priorities to ensure surveillance activities support those objectives.
• Guide stakeholders on decisions influenced by evolving compliance trends, policies and practices.
• Build collaborative relationships with business segment stakeholders and partners within Global Business Services.
• Participate in business continuity and disaster-recovery testing.
• Report significant financial crime risks promptly to regional and country financial crime leaders.
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of case information maintained in enterprise systems.

Processes

• Handle day-to-day case work across List Management, Production Orders, Transaction Monitoring, Transaction Screening, and Name Screening within defined turnaround times and quality expectations.
• Support complex investigations as required.
• Initiate follow-up actions with clear case narratives to progress each matter effectively.
• Support implementation of surveillance and investigative standards defined by regulators and the Financial Crime Compliance function.
• Escalate internal suspicious activity reports to Financial Crime Compliance / Country Money Laundering Compliance Officer.
• Maintain timely updates to watch lists and share significant typologies with regional teams.

People & Talent

• Promote a transparent, risk-aware working environment grounded in ethical conduct.
• Demonstrate integrity and uphold compliance values.
• Actively pursue ongoing learning relevant to the financial crime surveillance discipline.

Risk Management

• Review detection scenarios to ensure relevance and report any weaknesses, false positives, or new risks.
• Support audit and review exercises with credible outcomes.
• Highlight control gaps and apply risk-management standards across screening and monitoring processes.
• Engage relevant internal stakeholders to address risk concerns.
• Use available analytical and case-management tools to improve quality and efficiency.

Governance

• Recommend enhancements to control processes.
• Support operational risk checks and produce data analysis supporting emerging-risk identification.
• Escalate potential issues to country and regional financial crime leads.
• Assist in engagements with the second line of defence for challenge, approval, and oversight.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Uphold the organisation’s values and Code of Conduct.
• Take accountability for compliance with laws, regulations, and internal policies.
• Collaborate to help achieve conduct-related priorities including fair client outcomes and effective financial-crime prevention.

Key Stakeholders

• Financial Crime Surveillance Operations
• Financial Crime Compliance

Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of financial crime compliance standards, advisory practices, assurance, investigations, monitoring, and regulatory engagement.
• Strong understanding of surveillance processes and risk assessment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• Professional certification such as Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) preferred.
• Fluency in 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.