Job Description

Job: Operations
Primary Location: Asia-Singapore-Singapore
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent
Posting Date: 26/Jul/2022, 8:46:02 AM
Unposting Date: 27/Aug/2022, 5:59:00 PM

Role Responsibilities
Strategy

• Support the implementation of the vision, strategy, direction and leadership for the CPBB COB CDD team, consistent with the vision and strategy for CPBB COB and in support of the Group’s strategic direction and growth aspirations.

Business

• Provide CDD advisory in client level to business in relations to AML / CTF matters.
• Support relevant stakeholders to make decisions based on current and possible future policies, practices, and trends.
• Assist Line Manager to keep track of and provide advice to relevant stakeholders on the interpretation and application of regulatory expectations, laws, best practices and policies related to CDD

Processes

• Review relevant policies / processes / DOIs in relations to CDD compliance, aligning with relevant regulatory requirements.
• Support the implementation of FCC policies and standards to ensure compliance with such policies and standards.

Risk Management Business CDD Advisor as 1st Line of Defence to focus on risk assessment. The role of the CDD Advisor is to review the overall risks of the client including,

• whether they have been accurately identified and assessed
• whether the risk rating is appropriate
• whether the client should be onboarded / retained
• Apply Group and Country CDD policies and processes (AML surveillance, client screening, risk assessment) to manage risks.
• Assess risks arising from products / segments / geographies / customers / transactions.
• Inform senior management 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.
• Undertake enhanced due diligence on new and existing medium / higher risk such as C / D risk rated clients and those associated with high risk industries or countries.
• Review and / or approve any proposal to manually override the risk rating of a Client from a risk rating of [D] to a lower level.
• Review and / or escalate new or emerging areas of risks for all clients including P risk rated clients and Group Sensitive Clients relevant clients such as adverse media / sanctions review.
• Support on Group Sensitive Clients controls such as review of internet search and transaction review
• Support on any Segment Prohibition review (e.g. DDUG, NPM).
• Make recommendations to relevant stakeholders on possible risk management responses to identified risks and / or findings of concern from investigations- at client and portfolio level.
• Escalation point for generic procedure related enquiries.
• Manage escalations on account opening/onboarding issues requiring additional assessment and controls.

Regulatory and 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

• Retail Branch, RB Client onboarding team, Business Banking Team, Country CFCC and Group Tax.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 5+ years of experience with Banking/Financial industry
• 3+ years of experience with FCC
• Experience with CDD as 1st Line of Defence to focus on risk assessment within Business Banking segment
• Any professional certification like CAMS, AAMLP, etc. will be preferred

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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

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