Job Summary

As part of the Compliance, Financial Crime & Conduct, you'll be responsible for assisting the Head of CFCR Advisory in diverse Advisory functions; liaising with regulatory bodies; ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements; and guiding Internal Review Management. This encompasses activities related to risks overseen by the CFC function, whether centralized or outsourced, including risks associated with Financial Crime Risk (such as Anti-Money Laundering Risk, Sanctions Risk, Anti-Bribery & Corruption Risk, and Fraud Risk). 

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Bank fulfill its "Here for Good" commitment by establishing a sustainable CFCR framework aligned with best practices.
• Support CFCR Advisory team leadership and strategy consistent with the Country Head and Bank’s growth goals.
• Ensure high regulatory compliance and deliver key priorities aligned with Advisory CFCR’s goals.
• As an independent second line risk control, apply CFCC frameworks through robust risk control and specialist advice suited to the Group’s complexity.
• Promote compliance culture with CFCC standards, regulatory requirements, and ethical practices, embedding the Here for Good culture and Code of Conduct. Collaborate with CFCC Management Team to implement a One Bank approach across all Clients.
• Contribute to designing the Country Business operating model for CFCC and business processes.
• Execute key Compliance, Conduct, and Financial Crime risk controls with specialist advice proportionate to the Group's business complexity.
• Deliver timely risk responses and escalate issues exceeding management tolerance. 
• Support regulatory relationship management, ensuring key legal and regulatory changes are communicated. 
• Drive regulatory compliance standards and align initiatives with business performance. 
• Develop a thorough understanding of the business to provide oversight and challenge for sustainable CFCC outcomes, including CDD approvals and client decisions. 
• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders, offering timely conduct, financial crime, and compliance advice to meet strategic goals. 
• Maintain effective stakeholder engagement and assist the Country Head, CFCC in support roles. 
• Act as a trusted advisor, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations. 
• Support and challenge the business to uphold conduct, regulatory, and CFCC standards for fair client outcomes. 
• Provide advice and challenge on product design, initiatives, projects, remedial actions, and transactions. 
• Challenge senior management and stakeholders when activities exceed risk appetite, escalating until proper oversight is ensured. 
• Collaborate with operational teams to support proactive CFCC risk mitigation.
• Help resolve conflicts between business-specific regulations such as AML, data privacy, and information security. 

• Promote a culture of openness, trust, and compliance with ethical, legal, and regulatory standards. 
• Foster forward planning, prioritisation, deadline management, streamlined workflows, and inclusive, efficient work practices. 
• Attend ongoing training to maintain competence and qualifications. 
• Support skill and knowledge transfer among CFCR Advisory colleagues regarding legal, regulatory risks, and compliance. 
• Act as second line Risk Owner per the Group’s ERMF for relevant business processes. 
• Collaborate with CFCR teams to anticipate and mitigate horizon risks impacting the Bank, including global business conduct standards. 
• Manage CFCR Advisory matters and regulatory issues with the CFCR team; FCC reports made with Country Head, FCC. 
• Inform senior management and regulators promptly of serious breaches or risk tolerance breaches; consult Country Head, FCC for FCC risks. 
• Identify, assess, and communicate evolving regulatory changes and engage in reform.
• Work with Group Shared Investigation Services on regulatory changes and risks. 
• Liaise with internal audit and CFCR Assurance to follow up on audit-identified CFCR weaknesses. 
• Review management information and trackers to monitor CFCR Advisory issues, risk acceptance, and mitigation plans.
• Provide reports on key CFCR risks to business risk and control forums. 
• Manage high-risk clients and country reviews, including PEPs and Sensitive Clients, consulting Country Head, FCC when needed.
• Advise on CFCR risk frameworks and risk assessment outcomes to business stakeholders. 
• Oversee risk acceptance and mitigation plans related to business

Skills and Experience

• 8-10 years of experience in Regulatory Compliance and Financial Crime
• Strong understanding of Financial Crime Risks including Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, and Fraud.
• Solid knowledge in Wealth and Retail Banking, as well as Corporate and Investment Banking

Qualifications

Education
•    Tertiary Education
Training
•    Compliance
Languages
•    English & Bahasa Melayu

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.