Manager, Financial Crime Surveillance Operations, Transaction Monitoring

Job ID: 39026

Location: Karachi, PK

Area of interest: Operations

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 30 Sept 2025

Job Summary

This role will support and implement the vision, strategy, direction and leadership for the country consistent with the vision and strategy for Financial Crime Surveillance Operations (FCSO) and in support of the Group's strategic direction and growth aspiration.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of the Financial Crime Surveillance Operations (FCSO) strategy by escalating appropriate Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML)surveillance issues and executing activities in line with guidance documents, Group requirements and regulatory expectations.
• Maintain thorough knowledge of bank products across all segments (i.e. retail, commercial, private, correspondent banking and trade) and the ability to execute end-to-end investigations across all segments
• Support relevant stakeholders to make decisions based on current and possible future policies, practices, and trends.
  
  Keep track of and provide advice to relevant stakeholders on the interpretation and application of regulatory expectations, laws, best practices and policies related to FCC
• Support Country Head FCSO/Regional Head FCSO with any complex investigations as required
• Ensure timely initiation of any follow up actions to effectively process cases in Transaction Monitoring (TM) with clear narratives
• Share high profile cases with Country FCSO Head, Country FCC and Regional Cluster Head of FCSO to develop typologies and other materials to improve controls
• Promote a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy compliant conduct is the norm
• Ensure forward planning, prioritization, deadline management, streamlined workflows and efficient work practices are the norm
• Individual accountability for Learning and Development Plans and execution
• Understand technical aspects of systems relevant to List Management, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Client Risk Assessments, Name and Transaction Screening, AML Monitoring and Case Management
• Inform Line Manager / 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
• Map risks, quantify the potential impact and escalate where necessary
• Provide intelligence (to internal forums) on specific clients, client-types and emerging risk typologies
• Ensure the suitability and quality of case data maintained on enterprise case management systems
• Partner with legal counsels for advice on technical matters
• Propose control improvements, enhancements and simplifications where appropriate
• Collate, analyses and interpret data in reports
• Analyze and interpret data to produce reports that help the bank identify and manage emerging areas of risk / vulnerability and support in remediation action.

Skills and Experience

Communication (verbal + written)

Maintain Client Confidentiality

MS Office

Data analytics & Analytical skills

Presentation skills

Governance

Transaction screening experience

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.