Job Description

Job Summary
Purpose of this role is to operate and run the Financial Crime Surveillance Operations (FCSO) UAE Transaction Monitoring (TM), Name Screening (NS), Transaction Screening (TS) function.
Key Responsibilities

• Day to day processing of List Management (LM), Production Orders (RO), TM, TS and NS cases in line with AAA (Assess, Analyse and Act) procedures and in a timely manner within agreed TAT's whilst maintaining Quality Control/Quality Assurance results in line with Group and local expectations.
• Support Country Head FCSO/Regional Head FCSO with any complex investigations as required.
• Ensure timely initiation of any follow up actions to effectively process cases in LM, TM, TS, PO and NS with clear narratives.
• Reporting Internal Suspicious Activity Report (SAR's) for cases escalated through FCSO screening or transaction monitoring processes to Country FCC / Country Money-Laundering Compliance Officer (CMLCO).
• Ensure names are added to the watch lists on a timely basis.
• Share high profile cases with Regional Cluster Head of FCSO to develop typologies and other materials to improve controls.

• Understand technical aspects of systems relevant to Case Management.

• 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.
• Collate, analyse and provide data to senior management and relevant governance/risk committees.
• Design and maintain dashboards and metrics that allow FCSO and FCC to dynamically monitor financial crime risk and operational performance for key Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) processes.
• Analyse and interpret data to produce reports that help the bank identify and manage emerging areas of risk / vulnerability and thus drive remediation action within the FCC function.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed "Here for good" and the Group's brand and values in the team.
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.
• Providing guidance and training to relevant value chain stakeholders (e.g. Country FCSO, New Joiners) when and as needed as directed by Country Head FCSO.
• Provide back up support to Country FCSO team colleagues as required.

Skills and Experience

• Reasoning skills
• Good Excel skills
• Good Excel skills
• Detail Oriented
• Prior compliance/FCC experience is preferrable
• Strong Communication skills

Qualifications

• Education bachelor's or master's Degree
• Certifications ICA, ACAMS will be an added advantage
• Languages English

Competencies
Action Oriented
Collaborates
Customer Focus
Manages Ambiguity
Nimble Learning
Decision Quality
Courage
Instills Trust
Strategic Mindset
Technical Competencies: This is a generic competency to evaluate candidate on role-specific technical skills and requirements
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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