Job Summary
Lead the Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) function in the UAE, aligning with Group strategy. FCC is a second line of defence role, responsible for providing policy advice, guidance, oversight, and challenge to the first line businesses and functions. Work in collaboration with Financial Crime Surveillance Operations (FCSO) team to drive effective, efficient, and compliant FCC operations across UAE, ADGM and DIFC. The role entails extensive and regular engagement with multiple external stakeholders - such as regulators; law enforcement agencies; industry bodies and peer banks.
Key Responsibilities

• Set and implement the Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) vision, strategy, direction, and leadership for the country, consistent with the Group vision and strategy for FCC in support of the Group's strategic direction and growth aspirations.
• Ensure that the UAE Country Management Team (CMT) is kept fully informed of prevailing FCC matters via the Financial Crime Risk Committee.
• Design and own UAE FCC, ADGM & DIFC FCC Target Operating Models.
• Ensure that there is adequate support (people, processes, tools, frameworks, systems) in the UAE to manage Financial Crime risk.
• Proactively engage with external stakeholders - such as the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Supervision; the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU); law enforcement agencies; industry bodies and peer bank groups etc.
• Analyse impact of financial crime related regulatory matters on the relevant business area and its operations.
• Ensure that key changes (laws, rules, and regulations) are communicated and cascaded (in country) and embedded in policies and procedures.
• Keep track of and provide advice to relevant stakeholders on the interpretation and application of regulatory expectations, laws, best practices, and policies related to FCC.

Skills and Experience

• Leadership and People Management
• Risk Management
• Compliance Policies and Standards
• Compliance Advisory
• Investigations
• Regulatory Liaison

Qualifications

• University degree holder.
• Certification - ACAMS, ICA
• Fluent in English

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.

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