Key Responsibilities

• The primary role will be to develop the Group Financial Crime Risks Investigations Unit’s financial crime data analytics capability. This will include interacting with and understanding the content of a data lake, developing queries to extract the data to match certain financial crime profiles, manipulating data to identify financial crime patterns and developing training to upskill other members of staff.
• Provide data analytics support and insights to fellow members of the Group Financial Crime Risks Investigations Unit to assist in financial crime intelligence and investigations work.
• Develop and build proactive analysis risk models through data analysis and interrogation and interpret results to senior stakeholders.
• Data mine and analyse potential hot spots for control cases to be further examined and assessed for potential threats. This includes ensuring that any findings are categorically substantiated and rated.
• Analyse large volumes of financial transaction data to identify patterns, anomalies, and potential suspicious activities.
• Develop and refine predictive models, machine learning algorithms, and statistical methodologies to improve the accuracy of AML detection.
• Create data visualizations and communicate insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development of data-driven tools and applications for AML investigations and reporting.
• Active interaction, support, and relationship management of lateral peer groups across region. This involves working with local FCC teams, FCC management as well as other business peer groups to ensure buy in on topics and issues.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including compliance experts, data engineers, and software developers, to create cutting-edge solutions that mitigate financial risks and uphold regulatory compliance.
• Make recommendations (and/or implement) to relevant stakeholders on possible risk management responses to identified risks and/or findings of concerns from investigations.
• Assess risks arising from products / segments / geographies / customers / transactions.

Skills and Experience

• A Bachelor's degree. Professional qualifications in a related discipline would be an advantage.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in relational databases using SQL.
• Solid understanding and experienced in working with various analytics tools/programming languages such as Python.
• Knowledge of Power BI or Tableau.  
• Advanced knowledge of Excel.
• Previous experience as a Senior Analyst in a in risk management role. Having similar experience and/or applicability of experience to Financial Crime risk and intelligence gathering is an advantage.
• Good data analytic, data mining skills; experience in using similar type tools or software; as well as an ability to work with macros and statistical modelling.
• Other related Data Management experience in Data Governance, Data Standards documentation, Master Data Management and Data Integration.
• Good knowledge of IT systems and Bank IT infrastructure would be an added advantage.
• Strong interpersonal skills.  An ability to get along well with others and to build networks and relationships.
• Excellent communication and business writing skills and confident in briefing senior key stakeholders.
• Previous experience in any aspect of financial crime or a regulated profession would be an advantage.

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.