Job Summary
About the Role
Are you ready to lead a specialized compliance team in one of the most crucial areas of financial services? Standard Chartered Bank is seeking an experienced and dynamic Head of Sanctions Compliance Risk Analysis Control for our Tampa office. This role is pivotal in ensuring that Standard Chartered's payment processes meet strict sanctions compliance standards and in managing our Tampa-based Risk Analysis Control Team. As the Tampa lead, you'll oversee day-to-day operations, implement a fast-track training program for new and existing team members, and collaborate closely with our New York and global Sanctions Compliance teams.
This is an opportunity for a talented sanctions compliance professional with a passion for risk management, compliance oversight, and team leadership. If you're motivated to make a tangible impact on a global scale, we invite you to apply.
Key Responsibilities
- Direct and manage the Tampa Risk Analysis Control team, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations and alignment with global compliance goals.
- Develop and lead an accelerated training program to rapidly onboard and upskill team members, setting high standards for performance.
- Oversee sanctions compliance for in-process payments and investigative processes for payments processed by Standard Chartered Bank New York (SC NY).
- Provide expert guidance on US and UK sanctions laws, ensuring accurate interpretation and application across the Group.
- Manage List Management processes to ensure data integrity, and conduct transaction reviews to guarantee compliance with all internal and external requirements.
- Approve OFAC block and reject reporting, managing Special Requests from OFAC as needed.
- Continuously monitor and refine operational efficiency, ensuring adherence to sanctions laws and minimizing compliance risks.
- Direct the Quality Control Process (QCP) for transaction screening, ensuring adherence to Regional Sanctions Team Departmental Operating Instructions.
- Contribute to the FCC Americas Sanctions Compliance Dashboard, providing key risk metrics and insights.
- Identify, assess, and manage sanctions-related risks, ensuring appropriate controls are in place.
- Act as a regulatory liaison and ensure open, cooperative interactions with local regulators and auditors.
Ensure that team members understand and comply with all relevant sanctions regulations and internal standards.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, International Affairs, or a related field preferred.
- A minimum of 7 years of experience in Sanctions Compliance.
- ACAMS certification (or equivalent) required.
- Strong understanding of US and UK sanctions laws, with a proven track record in sanctions compliance and risk management.
Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with a commitment to fostering an inclusive team environment.
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 thingand 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
Expected annual base pay range for the role is 104,734USD to 157,101USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations
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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-offincluding 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 workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
- Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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.
