Specialist / Team Leader, Group Integrated Intelligence and Investigations

Job Description

*Role Responsibilities Job Summary
• Assist in preparing Enhanced Background Screening reports for new prospects/existing clients as per the business or Group i3 requirement using subscribed databases and through extensive public domain search covering all FCC / AML risks.
Responsibilities Strategy
• Assist in special Reputational Risk projects that are conducted to ascertain if a report or media sweep has any reputational risk to the bank. Analysis includes search for adverse media sweep, checking for existing relationship and conducting transaction / look back analysis of the account in case of existing banking relationship. Liaise with the Transaction Surveillance Unit (TSU) and Customer Screening Unit (CSU) during data request. Assist in the summary of the findings that are to be forwarded to the relevant compliance / business / FCC unit for further action.
Business
• Support Group and Regional i3 teams in intelligence and investigation related projects / activities.
• Intelligence Perform the role of Intelligence Analyst / Lead Intelligence Analyst as assigned. Identify financial crime risks to produce intelligence products by analysing the intersection of external threats with Bank s inherent and residual financial crime profile. Support in preparing intelligence products like client analysis reports, intelligence alerts, intelligence bulletins, strategic intelligence assessments to ensure mitigation outcomes.
• Investigations Perform the role of Investigator / Lead Investigator as assigned. Conduct financial crime investigations, to identify and mitigate financial crime risk to the bank. Perform activities like running list, client relationship identification and screening, open source research, transaction analysis, CDD reviews and watchlist checks etc.,
Processes
• Prepare Enhanced and Basic Background Screening for new prospects / existing clients as per the business or Group i3 requirement through extensive public domain research and database screening through internal databases and subscribed third-party databases.
• Extract eCDD+ details, including information on sanctions compliance and Adverse Media Assessment Form.
People & Talent
• To equip with relevant technical and interpersonal skills.
Risk Management
• Apply Group and FCC policies and processes (AML surveillance, client screening, risk assessment) to manage risks.
• 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.
• Identify intelligence for typology studies and risk mitigation plans.
• Identify financial crime risk indicators through various internal systems and advise relevant stakeholders on outcomes of AML, Sanctions and ABC risks identification and assessment methodologies.
• Provide intelligence (to internal forums) on specific clients, client-types and emerging risk typologies.
Governance
• Ensure timely reporting and escalation of significant issues to management.
• Establish and develop effective working relationships within the unit.
• Propose control improvements, enhancements and simplifications where appropriate.
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 unit 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
• Requestors from various business across SCB locations.
Other Responsibilities
• Ensure timely reporting and escalation of significant issues to management.
• Establish and develop effective working relationships within the unit, Group i3 / Regional i3, and other personnel of business units e.g., TSU and CSU.
• Coordinate IT initiatives and managing database and systems used by the unit to ensure operational issues are promptly addressed.
Our Ideal Candidate
• Any degree from a reputed university.
• Any AML certification like CAMS / ICA (preferable).
• Minimum four or five years of relevant experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Good analytical skills.
About Standard Chartered Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, weve 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 youre 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 cant 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, youll 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.
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term.
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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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.
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