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Accounting - Finance
Looking for Associate Manager
Accounting - Finance
#335098
Remote / WFH
Job Description
Role Responsibilities
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.
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
• 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.
• Lead the FCSO to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Operation of Financial Markets; Financial Crime Prevention; The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
People and 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.
Project/change management
• Manage and protect business as usual (BAU) capability during change programmes, as well as during the execution and delivery of the Remediation initiatives through project phase and into BAU.
• Provide subject matter expert advice, guidance and support to the project managers on managing change.
• Review new business requirements and provide solutions where required.
Key Stakeholders
• FCC Controls representatives in group and country.
Other Responsibilities
• Embed Here for good and Group s brand and values in FCSO,
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures
Our Ideal Candidate
Qualifications
5 to 10 years of relevant work experience in the following areas:
For screening:
• Sanctions and screening (name and transaction) surveillance skills
• Analysis skills: able to analyze data, working knowledge of Internet and MS Office Suite & independently assimilate, analyse and evaluate information from disperse data sources to determine a course of action (e.g. case closure or escalation), and record and communicate this decision clearly and concisely.
• Banking: knowledge in terms of customers, products and transactions
• Banking operations experience (Client Due Diligence, payments, trade, markets or other) and service-oriented attitude.
• Excellent communication in English (articulation and writing).
Role Specific Competencies
• Compliance Policies and Standards
• Compliance Advisory
• Compliance Review and FCC Assurance
• Surveillance (including Screening and Monitoring)
• Investigations
• Compliance Risk Assessment
• Regulatory Liaison
• Manage Change
• Manage Projects
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.
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
• 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.
• Lead the FCSO to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Operation of Financial Markets; Financial Crime Prevention; The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
People and 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.
Project/change management
• Manage and protect business as usual (BAU) capability during change programmes, as well as during the execution and delivery of the Remediation initiatives through project phase and into BAU.
• Provide subject matter expert advice, guidance and support to the project managers on managing change.
• Review new business requirements and provide solutions where required.
Key Stakeholders
• FCC Controls representatives in group and country.
Other Responsibilities
• Embed Here for good and Group s brand and values in FCSO,
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures
Our Ideal Candidate
Qualifications
5 to 10 years of relevant work experience in the following areas:
For screening:
• Sanctions and screening (name and transaction) surveillance skills
• Analysis skills: able to analyze data, working knowledge of Internet and MS Office Suite & independently assimilate, analyse and evaluate information from disperse data sources to determine a course of action (e.g. case closure or escalation), and record and communicate this decision clearly and concisely.
• Banking: knowledge in terms of customers, products and transactions
• Banking operations experience (Client Due Diligence, payments, trade, markets or other) and service-oriented attitude.
• Excellent communication in English (articulation and writing).
Role Specific Competencies
• Compliance Policies and Standards
• Compliance Advisory
• Compliance Review and FCC Assurance
• Surveillance (including Screening and Monitoring)
• Investigations
• Compliance Risk Assessment
• Regulatory Liaison
• Manage Change
• Manage Projects
