Director, Bribery and Corruption Investigations

Job Description

• People and Talent

• Lead by example and contribute to building the appropriate culture and values. Work in collaboration with risk and control partners to deliver best outcome for the team and the Bank
• Contribute and promote a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy compliant conduct is the norm.
• Stimulate an environment where forward planning, prioritisation, deadline management and streamlined workflows and collaborative, inclusive yet effective and efficient work practices are the norm.
• Collaborate with training teams to input to training curriculum to support closing of capability gaps
• Support training programme delivery by ABC CoE team members to meet the training needs of the business/FCC
• Active stakeholder management to establish and maintain open lines of communication, support and tone from the top with ABC global CoE and Programme and Regional/Country stakeholders.
• Support Fraud CoE

Risk Management

• Be vigilant, identify, and escalate potential regulatory breaches (or where risk tolerances have been breached) and ensure that action plans are developed, tracked, and delivered timely quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased.
• Ensure the suitability and quality of case data maintained on enterprise case management systems.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders to ensure appropriate compliance testing, risk assessment and assurance testing in place for ABC risk areas in the investigation process
• Apply Group and ABC/FCC policies and processes to manage risks.
• Assess ABC risks arising from products / segments / geographies / customers / transactions

• Ensure the suitability and quality of case data maintained on enterprise case management systems.
• Analyse significant risk events (e.g. external FCPA/UKBA enforcements, non-compliant transactions, production orders etc.) to ensure that all connected parties, particularly cross-border are identified and reported at the appropriate levels internally as well as externally across all relevant jurisdictions.
• Identify intelligence for typology studies and risk mitigation plans.
• Advise relevant stakeholders on outcomes of Bribery and corruption risks identification and assessment methodologies.
• Support ABC risks assessments where required.
• Partner with local and/or Group legal counsel for advice on technical matters.
• Ensure that significant investigations and intelligence projects are concluded internally and externally where relevant (including cross-border).
• Provide investigative expertise to support management of Significant Regulatory/Legal cases.
• Conduct a root cause analysis on the control/other failures to ensure lessons are learned, extrapolated and shared across the bank to avoid occurrence of the same issue elsewhere.
• Provide intelligence (to internal forums) on emerging risk typologies.

Governance

• Support Head, ABC to ensure all ABC policies and standards are aligned to the Group s Enterprise Risk Management Framework standards.
• Work in close liaison with the Group Fraud Intelligence & Investigation Unit
• Attend relevant risks forum and leadership meetings.
• Ensure tracking and remediation of intelligence and investigations related regulatory findings.
• In the event of serious regulatory breaches, or where risk tolerances have been breached, ensure senior management and relevant regulators are informed and that actions are taken quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased.
• Prepare and cascade lessons learned from audit findings, assurance activities and specific investigations.
• Propose control improvements, enhancements and simplifications where appropriate.
• Collate, analyse and interpret data in reports to senior management and relevant Business/Function stakeholders and governance/risk committees.
• Creation and delivery of periodic reporting and ensuring timely escalation of significant risks and issues arising from ABC Investigations.
• Main point of contact for ABC investigations tracking and governance

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead the / work to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank s Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Group Colleague Conduct team (including ABC COE)
• Head, FRM
• Head, Fraud Intelligence & Investigations
• Shared Investigative Services
• FCC, Intelligence & Investigations Unit (I3)
• FCC, High Risk Client Unit (C4)
• Threat Intelligence
• Country, Regional and Group CFCC Advisory and Reporting teams
• Enterprise Risk Management team
• Group Operational Risk
• Process Owners at Group, Business and Function levels

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group s brand and values in the Group FCC Team.
• Develop an understanding of relevant policy requirements and work with stakeholders to confirm how these requirements will be met, including the risk control framework, in the relevant function and/or business.
• Draft new or amended policies and standards to capture the agreed compliance approach.
• Work with policy owners to have all changes approved, including the drafting of papers for approving committees if required.
• Ensure all documents are published in a timely and accurate manner.

Other responsibilities as required from time to timeOur Ideal Candidate

• Experience and expertise in management of ABC risks and compliance in a large multinational financial institution, consulting firm or law firm in a similar role.
• Extensive experience with conducting complex investigations (i.e. evidence gathering, data analysis, reporting etc) in financial, law enforcement, regulatory or professional services
• Advanced investigative leadership and decision making, creating and reviewing Terms of Reference for investigations, recording investigations, identifying and completing lines of enquiry effectively.
• Subject matter expertise in assessing and managing bribery risk and violations of the FCPA, UKBA and other anti-corruption laws
• Quality assurance reviews of investigations and investigation outputs.
• Good knowledge of IT systems and Bank IT infrastructure would be an added advantage
• Strong interpersonal skills. Strong collaboration skills and to building networks and relationships
• Excellent communication and business writing skills
• A proactive attitude to support continued effectiveness and identification of efficiency gains
• Understanding of best practice risk management techniques and frameworks relating to ABC, Fraud, and Investigations
• Relevant ABC, Fraud, Investigation and financial crime qualifications/accreditations, ACAMs, ACFE, other
• Bachelor s degree from an accredited institution or bachelor s degree in another area with a law degree is a bonus
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience

Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions. To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages . We welcome conversations on flexible working.,

Keyskills :
root cause analysisrisk management frameworkenterprise risk managementenvironmental impact assessmentroot causeopen sourcerisk modelsrisk controldata analysistrend analysistraining needs