Associate Director, Sanctions, Gsrt Europe - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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2 weeks ago

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Description

The Role Responsibilities
Specific role responsibilities for this role include the following:

Voluntary Self-Disclosures:

Manage the intake of potential Voluntary Self-Disclosures ("VSD's") for UK regulatory reporting purposes, including liaising with GSRT teams referring matters from UK overseas branches.
Using advanced knowledge of the UK sanctions regulatory framework, conduct analysis of potential VSD's to identify the regulatory basis for potential sanctions breaches and, working with colleagues in Group Internal Legal ("GIL") identify and draft relevantmitigating circumstances.
Draft and peer review VSD letters prior to submission to Head, FCC Europe Sanctions.
Track responses from UK regulatory authorities, including the handling of requests for further information ("RFIs").
Ensure that further action and nofurther action letters are escalated promptly to relevant stakeholders including Group Internal Legal ("GIL") and GSRT management.
Responsible for responding to 'seek advice' queries for VSD related referrals in the Sanctions Case Management Tool.
Responsible for monthly reporting of key monitoring risks and trends identified in VSD reporting and partners with stakeholders in developing appropriate risk mitigation strategies.
Reviews and provides feedback on quarterly breach trending analysis and recommendations prepared by the Group Sanctions QCO Team.

Frozen Assets Reporting:

Ensures that reports regarding frozen assets for clients and nonclients are drafted and escalated to Head, FCC Europe Sanctions for review.
Assists in reconciliation of all frozen assets in the UK and UKoverseas branches on a biannual basis and helps compile reporting for the OFSI annual frozen assets reporting exercise.
Assists in the maintenance and tracking of frozen assets in the JIRA system.

General Activities - GSRT:

Works with stakeholders within FCC and Group Sanctions to support units in delivering the sanctions agenda.
Works with FCIIU and FCIU on continuous improvement of the referral process of sanctions referrals to FCIIU and FCIU and FCIU/FCIIU referrals to the US Sanctions Team and provides periodic training on best practices and trends.
Provides advisory support to UK business lines on UK sanctions matters.

Business:

Analyse comprehensive impact of antifinancial crime related regulatory matters on relevant business area(s) and its operations.
Ensure that key changes (to laws, rules, regulations) are implemented (in region/country), in coordination with Group communications.
Support relevant stakeholders to make decisions based on current internal and external requirements, practices and trends.

Processes:

Execute the strategy for the EA GSRT;
Maintain and ensure effectiveness of Sanctions Compliance Program by defining reporting metrics, including Key Risk Indicators and Key Performance Indicators, to be used to monitor the health of the Program;
Manage the VSD workstream and reporting.
Manage OFSI Frozen Asset reporting.
Maintain and further SCBs relationship with OFSI and SCBs point of contact for OFSI sanctions queries and OFSI Reporting.
Support general compliance activities across the organization and other duties, including special projects, as assigned;
Global Subject Matter Expert for UK/OFSI matters e.g, with respect to Sanctions & Embargo laws and regulations, OFSI reporting etc.;

Key Stakeholders:

Global Head
Economic Sanctions Compliance, FCC High Risk Clients and Emerging Threats
Regional Head, FCC, Sanctions Europe & Americas
Head, FCC Europe
Group Sanctions and Regional Sanctions Teams
FCC Controls
Corporate and Institutional Banking
Key UK Regulators (OFSI, FCA, PRA, DIT).
FCC Assurance & Continuous Assurance
Group Internal Audit
Law Degree (Essential)
Sanctions Advisory Experience (Highly Desired)

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 opportunitiesto 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 canbring 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 advocateinclusion.

Together we:
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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
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Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
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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
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Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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 w