Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Data Analyst to support our Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Americas Data team. The analyst will work closely with internal stakeholders to provide data mining, statistical analysis, and management information (MI) reporting to drive decision-making and risk assessment. The role involves using advanced analytics, automation, and visualization tools to optimize processes and support compliance initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Analysis & Reporting: Perform advanced data mining, visualization, and analytical support for FCC teams.
• Solution Development: Design and implement end-to-end data solutions, including low-code ETL frameworks, SharePoint, Oracle PL/SQL, Python automation, and Tableau dashboards.
• Transaction Surveillance: Conduct transaction monitoring analytics, issue remediation tasks, and MI reporting to enhance risk detection and compliance.
• Ad-hoc Data Support: Address urgent FCCA requests for data insights, analytics, and reporting.
• Risk Assessment: Support FCC risk assessments, ensuring data integrity and conducting inherent risk analysis.
• Process Optimization & Automation: Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and operational efficiency.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure adherence to bank policies, internal audit standards, and regulatory frameworks.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with FCC Investigations, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Governance teams to support business objectives.
• Business & Risk Awareness: Maintain an understanding of the business environment, regulatory landscape, and associated risks.
• Governance & Ethics: Uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, in alignment with the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field of study, from an accredited institution, or equivalent qualification.
• Advanced degree will be viewed positively.
• 5-6 years of experience in a large multinational financial institution, consulting firm or law firm
• 5+ years of experience in programming (Python, SQL), analytics and data.
• Hands on experience with statistical analysis.
• Abilities to translate business questions into analytical solutions (pipelines/dashboard for analytics and Machine Learning models/algorithms) and to select the right statistical tools given a data analysis problem.
• Ability to manage and own projects.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the key products or services provided by the business / function, and the processes and controls that underpin them.
• Demonstrates an understanding of compliance regulations, knowledge of global procedures and policies, including a core understanding in AML, Sanctions, CDD or Anti Bribery.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the SAR process.
• Has the ability to interpret complex information and determine the research and analysis required to extract facts that can be objectively supported. As indicated above, an understanding of the way the MI being generated will be leveraged is necessary to ensure that deliverables are being executed in a manner that is fit for purpose.
• Clear, concise communication style (written and verbal); demonstrates engaged listening skills; able to maintain composure in a stressed situation.
• Personal Agility - Agile and receptive to change. Positive and solutions oriented.
   

Skills and Experience

• Compliance Policies and Standards    
• Compliance Risk Assessment    
• SQL and Python (additional scripting/statistical programming languages are welcome)
• Big Data architecture and knowledge of PySpark    
• Applied experience with machine learning on large data sets    
• Statistical, time-series, and predictive modelling, as well as NLP, machine learning, forecasting and optimization
• Statistical data analysis techniques such as multivariate analysis, stochastic models, sampling methods

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 70,000 USD to 106,000 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.