Client Risk Review Manager (Financial Crime Compliance)

Job description / Role

Client Risk Review Manager (Financial Crime Compliance) - Fight Financial Crime with us.

* Manage and undertake significant and complex investigations of potential Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions breaches within the bank (focusing on client, transaction and control reviews) as part of the Significant Regulatory/Legal Case Management approach i.e. cases which involve a regulator or other governmental authority, or could be of concern to such a regulator or authority, and which have the potential to result in significant financial, reputational or regulatory impact on the Group.
* Undertake bank-wide client risk reviews triggered by sanctions or money laundering risk indicators.
* Post investigation conclusion, report on the control/other failures that led to the breach(es) to ensure lessons are learned across the bank


Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Manage Financial Crime Client Investigations
- Provide investigative expertise to support the Group General Counsel's office in their management of Significant Regulatory/Legal cases, where the cases involve a regulator or other authority undertaking an investigation related to money laundering and sanctions involving the Group's clients

Manage end-to-end financial crime client reviews initiated by external sources (regulators, agencies, authorities or other external organisation), and internal surveillance. Investigation elements include:
- Source, sense check and validate client documentation (including Customer Due Diligence, Suspisous Activity Reports)
- Gather, mine, review and analyse client data (including transactions)
- Review other sources of relevant information (including client media coverage)
- Organise and conduct interviews (for example, with relationship managers, clients and other related parties)
- Regularly communicate with internal stakeholders
- Assist liaison between bank and external counsel
- Input to strategic direction of investigation

- Work closely with Group General Counsel's office to ensure preservation of Legal Privilege
- Collaborate closely with Regional Heads of Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) to coordinate and call on support from Regional and Country FCC teams to resolve cross-border client investigations
- Provide support to Regional or Country Legal & Compliance teams when they require specialist or additional support on client investigative / remediation projects
- Develop and maintain a financial crime client reviews ""vertical"" within the bank's case management system and Financial Crime Intelligence / Investigations Unit significant cases section of the FCC Case Tracker
- Lessons learned and remediation
- Conduct a root cause analysis on the control/other failures to ensure lessons are learned across the bank
- Present final conclusions and remediation recommendations to senior stakeholders

Requirements

* Signficiant AML investigations experience, managing large complex cases including cross-border
* Ideally you will have experience working in an International bank and ACAMS qualified (Association of certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists)
* Strong stakeholder management experience.
* Ability to work idependently and with cross-border teams.

Because we have a big vision, there's a lot to do. We need people who are comfortable with the unknown and passionate about building something for the long term. If impact is your ultimate goal then there never was a better time to join us because the work that you do will influence the direction that we take.

Are you ready to solve important problems that make a big difference? Apply now.

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.