Key Responsibilities

• To act as a Team Member on assigned audit work involving Financial Crime risk across the bank.
• To act as Audit Team Member and Team Leader and take responsibility for overseeing the planning and execution of the audit, maintaining the audit budget, including drafting of audit issues and the audit report. The audits should meet relevant regulatory requirements and expectations, where applicable.
• To clearly explain the risks and impact of issues identified during testing to GIA and business management.
• To actively manage relationships with senior financial crime management and stakeholders.
• To support GIA audit teams by providing FCC subject matter expertise for their audits.
• To provide ongoing continuous monitoring support in respect of the business and raise issues and observations outside of formal audit work to expedite rectification of control weaknesses.
• To attend and present at formal committees and Group meetings as required, e.g. Process Governance Committees and specific AML Risk Committees.   
• The individual may support in department wide exercises such as annual planning, risk assessment, training and resourcing. 
• Ensure that all audit issue action plans agreed during audit fieldwork are tracked through to completion in accordance with methodology requirements

• Strategy

  • Support the Head of Audit where required, in the development of the GIA risk assessment and development of an appropriate audit plan for Financial Crime
  • Propose audits for coverage during the audit cycle based on their knowledge of the business; and
  • Carry out their role in line with the Audit Charter and remain independent from management and free from interference.

   

  Business*

  • Assist the Head of Audit to effectively manage the cost of assigned audits within the allocated budget for audit engagements.
  Identify and implement innovation and data analytics for efficiencies, cost savings and optimal productivity of assigned audit engagements

Skills and Experience

Skills

• Strong communicator, both written and verbal, with ability to clearly explain controls to be tested and risks identified to audit and business management.
• Confident and courageous to raise and escalate ideas or concerns in a professional and timely manner.
• Proactive, self-directed and able to work with minimum supervision.
• Ability to work within a global team, including leading audit team members remotely.
• Ability to exercise good judgement and objectivity.
• Demonstrate understanding of and commitment to the Group’s core values.
• Ability to commit to limited business travel.

Qualifications

• Qualifications, skills and attributes

  • In-depth understanding of financial crime risk management and associated control requirements.
  • An experienced financial crime practitioner or auditor with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience in financial crime and/or audit and data analytics in managing financial crime risks
  • Strong communicator, both written and verbal, with ability to clearly explain controls to be tested and risks identified to audit and business management;
  • ACAMS/ACFCS/Equivalent and/or audit certification preferred;
  • Ability to work within a global team;
  • Ability to commit to limited business travel.

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.