Director, Financial Crime Initiatives, Senior Project Manager(Hong Kong, Singapore)

Job title: Director, Financial Crime Initiatives, Senior Project Manager(Hong Kong, Singapore)

Company: Standard Chartered


Job description: JOB SUMMARYWe are seeking a highly experienced and talented Senior Project Manager to lead the successful implementation of a number of high-profile financial crime Transformation initiatives, across our global Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) footprint.Initial focus of the role will be to lead the design and implementation of a ‘KYC Trigger Based Review’ initiative. Enabling the bank to transition from periodic KYC cycle, to a risk-focused KYC Trigger-based review process for Low & Medium rated clients, to enable enhanced financial crime detection, improve client experience and drives operational efficiency through automation, streamlining policy and workflow. In addition, support the design and implementation of a model based Account Activity Review.The Senior Project Management will be responsible for driving the initiative, ensuring alignment with business strategy & objectives and delivering tangible benefits. You must be a strong communicator who builds trust-based relationships within the team and amongst stakeholders, including C-Suite, Business and Functional stakeholders, Chief Product Owners / Technology Leads, from across the Bank to ensure successful, controlled, and timely delivery.The role-holder will demonstrate strong technical Subject Matter Expertise across a broad spectrum of financial crime risks, particularly those that are data and analytics led and thereby contributing to the early and pro-active identification of risks and foster a collaborative culture to address these. Interpretation of financial crime data quality, transaction monitoring models and scenarios, as well as the end to end case investigation process data is a fundamental responsibility to the role holder. An applied machine learning model knowledge and performance to financial crime processes is essentialJob Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive programme strategy & plan, aligning it with the bank’s overall strategic goals.
• Define clear objectives, milestones, and deliverables for the Financial Crime Transformation Programme.
• Development and tracking of productivity metrics to demonstrate improvement of overall performance.
• Lead, drive, co-ordinate as appropriate 1LoD/2LoD working groups to drive effective, practical and timely embedding of policy requirements demonstrating strong cross-team collaborative skills.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure a risk-based approach in the execution of control monitoring and risk management activities.
• Provide SME guidance on financial crime analytics matters leveraging professional experience and understanding of industry best practices as appropriate.
• Plan, develop and lead technical data led projects across financial crime risks to bank expectations in the required timelines.
• Ensure efficient effective governance structures and processes are established, in compliance with overarching Enterprise Change Management standards and other governance processes as appropriate
• Driving transparent and effective Financial management, covering budgeting & forecast reporting, and ensuring a robust Benefits Management framework is implemented

Requirments

• Strong communicator who builds trust-based relationships within the team and amongst stakeholder
• Strong technical Subject Matter Expertise across a broad spectrum of financial crime risks, particularly those that are data and analytics led and thereby contributing to the early and pro-active identification of risks and foster a collaborative culture to addres
• Interpretation of financial crime data quality, transaction monitoring models and scenario
• An applied machine learning model knowledge and performance to financial crime processes is essential.

About Standard CharteredWe’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 offerIn 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.

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Location: Tai Wai, Hong Kong

Job date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:12:02 GMT

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