Head, Sanctions Risk Analysis and Control

Role Responsibilities
Strategy

• Ensure that there is adequate support (people, process, tools, framework, systems) in the GCNA region for necessary FCC Controls.
• To manage within tolerance the risk of financial, regulatory, or reputational loss to SCB by assisting the business and support units to meet the Sanctions requirements of the Group and all applicable local laws, rules and regulations concerning sanctions.

Business

• Ensure that key changes (to laws, rules, regulations) are communicated and cascaded (in region/country), in coordination with group communications.
• Support relevant stakeholders to make decisions based on current and possible future policies, practices, and trends.
• 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.

Processes

• Providing governance and oversight over the implementation of FCC-related policies and procedures in GCNA to ensure compliance with such policies and procedures.
• Manage and/or resolve alerts/cases (names, transactions, Customer Sanctions Review).

People and Talent

• Provide leadership, management and coaching to direct reports to ensure they are highly engaged and performing to their potential.
• Promote and embed 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.
• Deliver/Support Sanctions training programs to meet training needs of the business.
• Deliver/support Sanctions training programs to meet the training needs of FCC.
• Ensure staff in FCC GCNA Sanctions Investigations teams have clearly articulated and well understood roles and responsibilities through meaningful and accurate job descriptions.

Risk Management

• Understand technical aspects of systems relevant to CDD, Client Risk Assessments, Name and Transaction Screening, and Case Management.
• Establish and maintain watch lists used for customer and transaction screening and various other due diligence and investigative purposes (local/regional internal and external).
• Provide advice on the application of risk management frameworks (e.g., ORF, GRA).
• 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 financial crime risk indicators through various internal/external sources that impact SCB and its clients.
• Implement Sanctions risks identification and assessment methodologies.
• Advise relevant stakeholders on outcomes of [Sanctions] risks identification and assessment methodologies.
• Conduct a root cause analysis on the control/other failures to ensure lessons are learned across the bank.
• Provide intelligence (to internal forums) on specific clients, client-types and emerging risk typologies.

Governance

• Support all control checks undertaken by FCC under the Operational Risk Framework (ORF).
• Be accountable for identification and escalation of potential risks and issues to senior management through appropriate governance channels and the Quality Assurance framework.
• 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.

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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Senior FCC Management in the region
• Senior Legal and compliance Management in the region
• Sanctions authorities in the region
• Regional and Functional partners in the region and across other regions

Our Ideal Candidate

• CAMS Certification and CGSS (Certified Global Sanctions Specialist) Certification preferred

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Sanctions Operations
• Sanctions related compliance controls
• Sanctions advisory
• People Management

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• 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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