Job Summary

Are you ready to take your career to the next level in a dynamic and high-impact role? We are looking for an exceptional leader to join our Conduct, Financial Crime, and Compliance (CFCC) team as Director, Compliance, Risk Assessment. This role is critical in shaping and driving the CFCC Risk Assessment framework for the Americas region, ensuring alignment with global standards while meeting local regulatory and industry expectations.

Why Join us?

Strategic Influence – Shape the US BSA/AML and Sanctions Risk Assessment and contribute to the Global Risk Assessment framework.
High-Impact Work – Lead action planning, remediation, and ongoing monitoring to strengthen the control environment.
Collaboration at Scale – Work alongside senior stakeholders across the business, compliance, and risk functions.
Professional Growth – Develop your expertise in financial crime and compliance risk assessment, while mentoring and developing future leaders.

• Key Responsibilities:
  Risk Assessment & Compliance Strategy
• Drive the development and execution of the US BSA/AML and Sanctions Risk Assessment and the US Compliance Risk Assessment.
• Ensure the framework aligns with global methodologies, industry best practices, and regulatory expectations.
• Analyze risk data to provide insightful reporting and executive-level analytics on emerging risks.
  Business & Risk Management
• Oversee financial crime and compliance risk assessments (AML, Sanctions, ABC) across the Americas.
• Identify and assess residual risks, linking them to specific control weaknesses and recommending solutions.
• Partner with stakeholders across the bank to foster a risk-aware culture and drive proactive risk identification.
  Governance & Regulatory Engagement
• Ensure adherence to all applicable laws, regulations, and compliance frameworks.
• Act as a key liaison in regulatory matters, engaging with regulators, external monitors, and internal governance bodies.
• Support the execution of regulatory commitments to the FRB, DFS, and other external bodies.

Skills and Experience

• Deep expertise in risk assessment, compliance governance, and financial crime frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of BSA/AML, Sanctions, and ABC compliance requirements within banking.
• Experience developing and implementing quantitative risk methodologies.
• Ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and influence senior stakeholders.
• Passion for developing teams, fostering diversity, and leading with integrity.

Qualifications

• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist

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

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 93,981 USD to 140,972 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
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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.