Investigator, Group Investigations

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Job Summary

• Conduct investigations independently to minimize financial losses, reputational, regulatory, and operational risks involving criminal conduct, dishonesty, or policy breaches.
• Ensure investigations align with relevant laws, regulations, and Group standards, including escalation, case management, data capture, evidence management, electronic evidence review, reproting, interviewing and attending internal disciplinary panels.
• Prioritize multiple investigations, tasks, projects, and responsibilities while maintaining positive stakeholder relationships.
• Assist in requlatory and government investigations, including data source identification and extraction.
• Develop and disseminate data analytics, providing relevant management information to stakeholder.
• Maintain relationships with law enforcement, attend court cases, and corrdinate responses to legal requests as required.
• Coordinate with Group Internal Audit, Business, Country Compliance, and Operational Risk on investigation findings and remediation oversight.

Responsibilities
Strategy

• Responsiblity for leading and managing investigations for the Bank in SCTW and within the ASIA region as required, including responsibility for operations risk management and investigation delivery.
• Ensuring effective investigation strategies to manage legal and regulatory issues that may have a significant impact to the Bank and regionally and keeping abreast of changes within the Group and region.

Business

• Provide reports and other Management Information in agreed and standardised format.
• Conduct and manage investigations against the Bank and/or with employees that have potential material impact on the Bank from either a reputational, regulatory, financial or litigation perspective (or any combination of the same).

People & Talent

• Establish, develop and maintain close collaboration with key internal functional stakeholders including Legal, CFCR, ER and HR, to fully embed the Group Investigations framework including the formlisation of policies, procedures, processes and controls.
• Adopt a flexible approach in supporting other areas within the Group Investigations structure (and in seeking inbound support when necessary) to promote effecitve and efficient allocation of investigative resources.

Risk Management

• Maintain close interaction with those Risk Owners to whom responsibility is delegated to ensure resolution of system and control improvements identified throught the Group Investigations process.
• Ensure regional senior management are fully informed of all key risks and issues in area of responsibility and reported in line with Bank's operationsl risk proces.

Governance

• Reinforce an effective and exemplary risk and control culture and further strengthen the control environment.
• Act to minimise operational loss and audit failures and take proactive measures to respond to matters arising.

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.

Key Stakeholders

• Business and function representatives
• HR/ER
• Compliance
• Legal
• Audit
• Risk

Qualifications
Required

• 6 years of experience in investigative, compliance, intelligence, consulting, audit, or the supervision and examination of financial institutions.
• Bachelor's degree in relevant field, such as Legal, Business, Finance, or Accountancy
• Excellent communication skills.
• Native speaker fluency in Mandarin.
• Business proficient English language speaking and writing skills
• Certified Fraud Examiner accreditation or similar.
• Sharp business acumen with experience of Investigations in white collar corporate environment and/or experience advising or managing complex investigations and related risks representing financial institutions.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct best practice investigations (remote and physica) with a high level of integrity, independence, resilience, professionalism, pragmatism, and discretion.
• Knowledgeable and sound judgement of business practices, regulatory relationship management and reputational risk in a financial institution

Desirable

• Knowledge of financial supervision and examination
• Knowledge of banking systems
• Certified Fraud Examiner accreditation or similar.

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.