JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking a highly motivated Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Quality Control Specialist to join our team. The successful candidate will support the team in executing quality control processes in line with our Departmental Operating Instructions (DOIs). By employing a risk-based approach, you will address financial crime and money laundering risks, contribute to the publication and socialization of quality control results, and lead discussions with investigative teams to highlight identified exceptions and thematic trends.

Key Responsibilities

- Quality Control: Perform and support the quality control process, ensuring compliance with the DOI’s and using a risk-based approach to identify and mitigate financial crime/money laundering risks.
- Reporting & Communication: Publish and socialize quality control results, lead discussions with investigative teams to highlight exceptions, and communicate thematic trends.
- Workflow Planning: Adhere to deadlines through effective workflow planning with available resources. Recommend necessary changes to processes or DOIs.
- Risk & Compliance: Inform senior management and regulators of serious regulatory breaches. Ensure swift action is taken to remediate issues or cease activities.
- Technical Understanding: Gain a deep understanding of systems relevant to AML Monitoring and Case Management.
- Support: Ensure the team has the necessary support—people, processes, tools, and systems—to maintain FCC controls.
- Business Awareness: Stay informed about the wider business, economic, and market environment in which the Group operates.

Qualifications & Experience:

- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Economic Crime Investigation, or a related field from an accredited institution. An advanced degree is preferred.
- Experience: 1-2 years of experience in a large multinational financial institution, consulting firm, or law firm.
- Skills:
  - Understanding of AML, Sanctions, CDD, or Anti-Bribery regulations.
  - Knowledge of the SAR process and experience in generating SAR MI and/or performing SAR QC functions.
  - Ability to interpret complex information, conduct research, and analyze data.
  - Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
  - Ability to inspire and motivate team members, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment.
  - Personal agility and a solutions-oriented mindset.

Certifications: CAMS certification is preferred.

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 60,174 to 90,262 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.