Job Summary

• Support the implementation of the vision, strategy, direction and leadership for the (Client Due Diligence) CDD team in support of the Group's strategic direction and growth aspirations.
• Review relevant policies/processes in relations to CDD compliance, aligning to relevant regulatory and group requirements.
• Support the implementation of policies and standards to ensure compliance with such policies and standards

About our Client Due Diligence Team

Be our first line of defence. Join our Client Due Diligence team and you'll tackle any potential risks to keep our business safe. From understanding our clients expected banking activities to combating fraudulent ones, the work you do will be complex and interesting. You'll be trusted to take on challenging projects that stretch your skills, locally and globally. And you'll experience the opportunities and rewards that come with protecting an international bank with a long history of helping people prosper.

About our Technology and Operations Team

Our Technology and Operations (TandO) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.
When you work with us, you're protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We're driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply Group and Country CDD policies and processes (AML surveillance, client screening, risk assessment) to manage risks.
• Provide CDD advisory in client level to business in relations to AML/CTF matters
• Assess risks arising from products / segments / geographies / customers / transactions.
• Timely escalation of issues and ensure that necessary actions are taken quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased.
• Undertake enhanced due diligence on new and existing medium/higher risk
• Review and/ or escalate new or emerging areas of risks for all clients and Group Sensitive Clients relevant clients such as adverse media/sanctions review
• Timely review of customer's profile and related risk in relation to AML/CFT matter
• Make recommendations to relevant stakeholders on possible risk management responses to identified risks and/ or findings of concern from investigations- at client and portfolio level
• Escalation point for generic procedure related enquiries.
• Manage escalations on issues requiring additional assessment and controls.
• For Audit (Internal & external), manage checks, queries and any other information requested by auditors.
• Review and manage monthly assurance check and complete submission on time
• Assist Line Manager to keep track of and provide advice to relevant stakeholders on the interpretation and application of policies related to CDD

Skills and Experience

• Experience in Documentation review
• Proficient in Mandarin language since certain documents will be in Mandarin for review

Qualifications

Our Ideal Candidate

• 4+ years working experience in performing CDD reviews
• Familiar with regulations with regards to CDD
• Meticulous and eye for details
• Fast learner and efficient

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Stake holder management
• CDD Operations
• Documents Review
• Data Analysis

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.

Recruitment Assessments

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