Associate Correspondent Banking

Job description / Role

Standard Chartered is a leading international banking group committed to building a successful and sustainable future for our people, our customers and the communities we serve. With 1,700 branches and offices in 68 markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, we offer exciting and challenging international career opportunities to over 89,000 employees.

Job Description
* Work within the front-line team who has the responsibility for client risk management (e.g., CDD self-audit, onsite client visits, underwriting AML risk) across the Correspondent Bank (CB) portfolio.
* Assist in setting the Financial Crime (FC) risk, anti-money laundering (AML), anti-terrorist financing (ATF), anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) strategic agenda of the business.
* Provide support to develop, implement and monitor the CB business for FC/AML/ATF/ABC/sanctions issues
* Facilitate in embedding a culture of responsibility and awareness of financial crime matters and compliance throughout the FI organization as the first line of defense.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Subject Matter Expertise and Leadership
* Work with the CB business team globally.
* BSA/AML and sanctions exposure with focus in global trade, transaction banking, FX, loans and syndications.

Client Due Diligence
* Facilitate as an underwriter for AML/FC risk and assist to ultimately uplift the quality of CDD files.
* Assist in conducting targeted reviews and visitations with correspondent bank clients to follow-up on pertinent concerns identified by Compliance or the line of business as well as visit new/potential correspondent client Financial Institutions (FIs) to discuss and assess their compliance management programs.
* Work closely with Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Correspondent Banking FI Due Diligence team, trade and payment product partners to identify emerging trends and high risk transactions and activities to take appropriate measures to mitigate the risks including restriction of transactions to account closures including managing suspicious activity reporting and unusual activity reporting for the portfolio.
* Assist in Identifying emerging risk trends within the portfolio and take appropriate remediation action steps to manage/mitigate the risks including updating senior management and various stake holders through situation update reports.
* Review monthly MIS and client specific deashboards including SARs, NCTs and RFIs

Policies and Procedures
* Work closely with different lines of business compliance and financial crime teams to ensure that the business meets local and bank wide policies and procedures through different reporting to various stakeholders and bank regulators.
* Work with FCC to ensure policy and procedures are aligned with regulatory requirements and are operationally feasible.

Training & Culture of Conduct
* Help identify training needs.

Reporting and Governance
* Provide support in implementing a strong governance framework.
* Support internal audits and regulatory exams and assist to address, remediate and mitigate high risk clients, high risk issues impacting at the portfolio level.
* Support the facilitation and fulfillment of requirements as a result of external and internal exams.
* Support management on regulatory presentations and requests.
* Develop, track and follow-up on issues, action plans and escalation reports stemming from AML-related governance to ensure timely response and action.
* Facilitate in identification and escalation of potential risks and issues to senior management through appropriate governance channels.
* Assist in proactively monitoring correspondent banking portfolio transaction monitoring reports and dashboards.
* Facilitate in monitoring operational effectiveness and help to provide overall oversight of financial crime risk related responsibilities for the CB business.
* Development and maintenance of financial crime metrics inventory
* Assist in creation and presentation of executive reports defining compliance and risk management components of the AML/ATF/ABC and sanctions initiatives being driven by the business
* Overseeing and conducting special projects and other duties as assigned.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

External
* Clients, Regulators, Auditors - Ensuring market standard policy for SCB

Internal
* FCC
* Legal
* Compliance
* FM sales
* TB sales
* Audit

Other stake holders - Growth of the banks business globally within policy with acceptable risk

Requirements

* Preffered experience in financial crime /AML environment
* Exposure in financial services/Correspondent Banking
* Experience with FI clients, specifically CB
* Understanding of global financial crime regulations
* Excellent communication/writing skills with ability to get points across to all levels internally & externally
* Exposure in policy review, implementation, interpretation and execution
* Knowledge of regulations in key jurisdictions with some working knowledge of SCB footprint markets
* Exposure of core product knowledge across the Bank's offering
* Structured and process driven, with some experience in a multi cultural team, across borders and time zones
* Ability to work towards tight deadlines and manage expectations
* ACAMS/ICA qualification
* Travel 30-40%

Closing Dates

The closing date for applications is Nov 23 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 and 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.