Job Summary

The Screening Manager is responsible for reviewing and validating trade-related documents, including but not limited to invoices, bills of lading, vessel reports, and IMB reports. This involves cross-referencing these documents with internal and external risk events to identify any potential sanction risk and ensure compliance. Responsibilities include investigating discrepancies, cross-checking parties involved, and staying up-to-date on sanction regulations. Strong analytical skills, knowledge of trade documentation, and experience in risk management is vital. 

Key Responsibilities

Business
•    Respond completely and accurately to same day queries received from internal stakeholders.

Processes
•    Ensure compliance with Group Policy, Procedures and Process (PPP) and influence changes as required.
•    Review, resolve and/or further escalate alerts according to departmental policies. 
•    Queue management of CERS to ensure cases are handled in a timely manner. 
•    Determine if the transaction alert(s) are true or false-positive matches; conduct additional investigation when necessary; clearly and thoroughly document all decisions and findings with supporting rationale.
•    Raise questions and concerns to the Team Lead as needed concerning vague/contradictory/confusing list entries. 
•    Coordinate with Relationship Teams and/or Clients to obtain additional information in order to fully disposition potential matches.
•    Escalate suspicious cases and/or patterns to Unit Head for guidance and direction.
•    Identify areas of improvement around investigation processes as well as FCC escalations.  
•    Diligently assess received inquiry responses and documents (i.e. invoices, Bill of Lading, vessel/shipping movements and ownership).
•    Minimize and eliminate the casing of false positives alerts by sharing trends and patterns found to the 
•    Escalate higher risk or complex requests to Transaction Screening Unit Head for guidance and direction.
•    Support general transaction screening activities and other duties, including special projects, as assigned.
•    Miscellaneous responsibilities as required.

People & Talent
•    Provide subject matter expertise to other Analysts within the FCSO TS AA group and other business unites as required.

Day-to-Day Tasks

Risk Management
•    Adherence to America’s Code of Conduct/Group Values, local laws and regulations, and internal risk and compliance policies.
•    Timely, comprehensive and transparent responses to risk, compliance, and regulatory inquiries. 
•    Attendance at mandatory Risk and Compliance training and completion of all mandatory e-Learnings
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Embed “Here for Good” and The Group’s brand values in Transaction Screening Unit, Americas.
•    Encourage Teamwork and collaborative efforts towards the greater good and success of your colleagues.

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. 
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] * 
•    Serve as a Director of the Board 
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent) 

Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance with the banking industry.  
• Critical Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills as well as multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity
• Ability to manage geographically dispersed and highly varied internal and external stakeholder base
• Ability to thrive in a high-pressure environment.
• Exemplary integrity, ethics, and resilience
• Ability to apply experience and judgment to plan and accomplish priorities.
• Strong influencing skills

Qualifications

• Education    B.A. Degree or Higher

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 ter

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.

Recruitment Assessments

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 84,120 USD to 126,170 USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations 

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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