Job Summary

Specialist / Senior Specialist in the Information Barriers Trade Surveillance team is responsible for identifying potential trading anomalies, indications of MNPI misuse and other inappropriate activity.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform the initial review and/or resolve alerts/cases aligned (but not restricted) to Information Barriers Trade Surveillance to detect instances of potential misuse of Material Non-Public Information (MNPI), market abuse risk as well as irregular behaviour that may lead to regulatory / compliance issues.
• Perform the monitoring of transactional and communications data for potential trading anomalies, indications of MNPI misuse, market abuse and other inappropriate activity within its businesses.
• As an independent second line risk control function, execute the relevant aspects of the Compliance framework through robust independent risk control and the provision of specialist advice and constructive challenge in a manner proportionate to the nature, scale, and complexity of the Group’s business.
• Support all control checks approved by Operational Risk Framework (ORF) & be accountable for identification and escalation of potential risks and issues to senior management through appropriate governance channels and the Quality Assurance framework.
• Inform senior management and relevant regulators of serious regulatory breaches (or where risk tolerances have been breached) and ensure that actions are taken quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree; prior working experience in the financial industry, preferably Surveillance / Compliance / Regulatory / Sales, Trading & Customer Relationship desired but not essential.
• Banking knowledge in terms of customers, products, transactions and operations.
• Surveillance, data & analysis skills: able to manage data exceptions and analyse trends and out of pattern activities; able to independently assimilate, analyse, and evaluate information from disperse data sources to determine a course of action (e.g. case closure or escalation), record and communicate this decision clearly and concisely.
• Familiarity with concepts and relevant regulations on Market Abuse.
• Products & systems: knowledge of financial market products, trade booking structures and related systems.
• Analytical, inquisitive, attentive to details.
• Working knowledge of MS Office Suite.
• Excellent communication in English (articulation and writing).

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.