Head, Financial Crime Investigations

Job description / Role

Head, Financial Crime Investigations, MENAP

Job Description
- Ensure that regional significant investigations are concluded internally and externally where relevant
- Accountable for regional level case management data entry and assurance and escalating significant issues to Global Head of Investigations
- Manage alerts from customer match reports and dynamic risk rating and escalation to region
- Manage alerts/cases/SARs
- Manage escalations from the business
- Manage escalations based on customer screening alerts
- Manage production orders escalated to Financial Crime Compliance ("FCC")
- Investigate alerts generated from FC system or staff escalation
- Report where appropriate to the relevant authorities
- Propose risk management responses in relation to clients subject to findings of concern from investigations
- Manage an integrated process including work by analysts in the Group's Shared Services Centres
- Share high profile cases with Financial Crime Intelligence Unit to develop typologies and other materials to improve controls

Key Roles & Responsibilities
- Ensure that regional significant investigations are concluded internally and externally where relevant
- Accountable for regional level case management data entry and assurance and escalating significant issues to Global Head of Investigations
- Manage alerts from customer match reports and dynamic risk rating and escalation to region
- Manage alerts/cases/SARs
- Manage escalations from the business
- Manage escalations based on customer screening alerts
- Manage production orders escalated to Financial Crime Compliance ("FCC")
- Investigate alerts generated from FC system or staff escalation
- Report where appropriate to the relevant authorities
- Propose risk management responses in relation to clients subject to findings of concern from investigations
- Share high profile cases with Financial Crime Intelligence Unit to develop typologies and other materials to improve controls

Requirements

- Ability to partner with the business to make decisions based on the knowledge and interpretation of current and possible future policies, practices, trends and information of financial crime
- Resolve suspicious activity alerts (SARs)
- Conclude investigations of non-compliant activities
- Partner with legal counsels for matters regarding individual liability and country

Closing Dates
The closing date for applications is 08/03/2015 Please note all closing dates are given in Hong Kong time (GMT + 8 hours). We aim to respond to successful applicants within four weeks and will keep a record or your application in our database so that we can contact you when suitable vacancies arise in future.

Diversity & Inclusion
Standard Chartered is committed to diversity and inclusion. We believe that a work environment which embraces diversity will enable us to get the best out of the broadest spectrum of people to sustain strong business performance and competitive advantage. By building an inclusive culture, each employee can develop a sense of belonging, and have the opportunity to maximise their personal potential.

About the Company

Standard Chartered Bank started in 1958 in UAE with its first branch in Sharjah. The Group’s business gradually increased in Dubai with the opening of several branches and today, Dubai is the administrative hub of the Middle East and South Asia Region. In its 43rd year, the Bank enjoys the position of having the most extensive branch network among foreign international banks in UAE with 10 branches emirate-wide.

Standard Chartered is an international bank, focused on the established and emerging markets of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America with an extensive global network of more than 600 offices in over 50 countries. The three principal business groups are Global Markets, Personal Banking and Corporate and Institutional Banking.

In UAE, we are one of the leading banks, offering an extensive range of products and services for personal customers, local companies, multinational corporate and financial institutions.