Senior Analyst, Financial Crime Intelligence Operations (FCIO)

Standard Chartered Bank - UAE

UAE

Ref: HP048-787

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Senior Analyst, Financial Crime Intelligence Operations (FCIO) - Fight Financial Crime with us.

Supports the country Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) transaction monitoring and screening framework appropriate to the country Anti-Money Laudering (AML) / Counter Terrorist Financing (CFT) risks. In addition he/she will be providing support in the implementation of FCC operational risk framework, FCC projects in country and responding to Customer Due Diligence (CDD) / AML inquiries internally and externally.

Overall 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 Head of Investigations
- Manage alerts/cases/Suspicous Activity Reports (SARs) as part of transaction surveillance (TS) in Detica
- Manage alerts from customer match reports (CMR) and dynamic risk rating and escalation to region
- Perform QA on CMR alerts closed by Country FCC along with Quality Assurance (QA) on TS cases closed by Country FCC.
- Manage escalations from the business
- Manage escalations based on customer screening alerts
- Help provide training on TS and respond on a timely basis to queries from the stakeholders involved i.e. colleagues in Chennai and the Business;
- Review and understand (gaining expert knowledge in the process) of country laws and regulations of the African countries that the Dubai hub will serve;
- Develop technical knowledge of systems to enable review of data mapping etc and work closely with country Business / Compliance teams and Chennai AML technology teams;
- Support Head of Investigations, Africa in developing controls and procedures relating to TS, customer screening and suspicious activity reporting. Support the operation of such controls and procedures and keep the procedural manual up to date;
- Undertake quality assurance role of transaction surveillance & customer screening to identify suspicious activities and assist in preparation of SAR filing where necessary;
- Manage production orders escalated to Country FCC
- Investigate alerts generated from FCC 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

Leadership and Management
- Manage an integrated process including work by analysts in the Group’s Shared Services Centres

Knowledge Development and Information Management
- Share high profile cases with Head of Investigations and Financial Crime Intelligence Unit to develop typologies and other materials to improve controls

Requirements

- Significant AML investigations experience
- Professional Certification(s) (CAMS, CFE, Forensic Accounting etc)
- Ideally exposure to the African market
- Law enforcement experience
- QA / Internal Audit experience, role will not just include case analysis.

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.

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