Associate Director, FCSO Transaction Screening

Job ID: 37119

Location: Bangalore, IN

Area of interest: Operations

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 14 Aug 2025

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Help set and implement the vision, strategy, direction and leadership for the FCSO, consistent with the vision and strategy for FCC and in support of the Group's strategic direction and growth aspirations.
• Help ensure that there is adequate support (people, processes, tools, frameworks, systems) in the FCSO for necessary FCC controls.

Business

• Support relevant stakeholders to make decisions based on current and possible future policies, practices, and trends.
• Resolve conflicts of interest arising from regulations and information security.

Processes

• Manage and/or resolve alerts/cases.
• Follow the Screening DOI to process risk events in line with Assess, Analyse, Act (AAA) process.
• Do further analysis and escalations using knowledge about complex products
• Implement/roll-out Group and FCC processes/DOIs.
• Maintain and recommend (for approval by the relevant Risk Committee), appropriate processes/DOIs to address financial crime risks, aligning with relevant regulatory requirements.

People & 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.
• Ensure the respective team is adequately resourced and staffed by an appropriate number of competent staff sufficiently independent to perform duties objectively, to support sustainable business growth and address financial crime risks.
• Ensure staff in the respective team have clearly articulated and well understood roles and responsibilities through meaningful and accurate job descriptions.

Risk Management

• Make recommendations (and/or implement) to relevant stakeholders on possible risk management responses to identified risks and/or findings of concerns from investigations.
• Inform senior management and relevant regulators of serious regulatory breaches (or where risk tolerances have been breached) and ensure that actions are taken quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased.
• Analyse significant financial crime risk events transactions, production orders) to ensure that all connected parties, particularly cross-border are identified and reported at the appropriate levels internally across all relevant jurisdictions.
• Apply Group and FCC policies and processes (AML surveillance, client screening, risk assessment) to manage risks.

Governance

• In the event of serious regulatory breaches, or where risk tolerances have been breached, ensure senior management are informed and that actions are taken quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased.
• Track significant issues arising from FCC metrics, FCC Assurance activities, Audit reviews and regulatory inspections, providing validation of issue closure where necessary.
• Propose control improvements, enhancements and simplifications where appropriate.
• Support all control checks undertaken by FCC under the Operational Risk Framework (ORF).
• Periodic reporting and timely escalation of significant risks and issues arising from FCC Monitoring and Assurance activities.
• Be accountable for identification and escalation of potential risks and issues to senior management through appropriate governance channels and the Quality Assurance framework.
• Ensure tracking and remediation of surveillance and investigations related regulatory findings.
• In the event of serious regulatory breaches, or where risk tolerances have been breached, ensure senior management are informed and that actions are taken quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased.
• Prepare and cascade lessons learned from audit findings, FCC assurance activities and specific investigations.
• Collate, analyse and interpret data in reports to senior management and relevant governance/risk committees.
• 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

• FCC Controls representatives in group and country.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values India – Transaction Screening Bangalore; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats);

Qualifications

• Education-Graduate
• Langugaes-English

Skills and Experience

• Surveillance (including Screening and Monitoring)
• Compliance Policies and Standards
• Compliance Risk Assessment
• Investigations
• Payments Knowledge
• Manage Changes
• Manage Projects

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

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 leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months 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.