Job Summary

Financial Crime Surveillance Operations (FCSO) is the Bank’s specialized unit serving as the 1st Line of Defence (1LOD). FCSO plays a pivotal role in the Bank’s fight against financial crime and is responsible for managing the risk across all of the Bank’s processes and ensuring an effective control environment. At FCSO, highly skilled AML specialists ensure that risk events are reviewed, red flags are analysed, and escalation and resolution are managed. 

FCSO Department was one of the first departments opened in Standard Chartered in Poland, with more than 160 colleagues currently employed.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct AML investigations presenting heightened complexity, sensitivity and risk for potential unusual activity, including those generated from detection scenario processes, negative media reports, as well as other sources.
• Provide guidance and direction to the FCC Investigation Unit’s AML Investigators through close-collaboration and knowledge sharing with a focus on these areas:
  • Identifying, researching and escalating unusual activity.
• Managing own investigative process from initial detection to disposition.
• Thoroughly and timely reviewing reports and other investigative leads that potentially identify unusual activity.
• Formulating and recommending responses to potentially unusual findings, and supporting FCC in developing the Bank’s forward-looking risk-mitigation program, as requested by Line Manager.
• Support Investigation Specialists in oversight and decisioning of AML investigations.
• Provide guidance, direction, and assistance to team members in determining whether to close cases or escalate findings.
• Support Managers and Team Leaders in conducting AML investigations.
• Support the Investigation Unit’s internal training program by providing subject-matter expertise to program development, administration and learning delivery.

Skills and Experience

• 5 to 7 years of financial services, intelligence, or law enforcement. analytic support with demonstrated success and increasing responsibilities.
• Correspondent Banking experience is a plus.
• Minimum of 5 years of Financial Markets and Trade Finance AML experience.
• CAMS Certification is a plus. 
• Bachelor’s degree in Economic Crime Investigation, finance, accounting, intelligence, or criminal justice from an accredited institution, or equivalent.
• Advanced degree will be viewed positively.
• Are open to hybrid work - min. 1-2 days per week working from our office in Warsaw.

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.