Audit Director - Anti-Crime Technology, FCSO and Data Management

Job Summary

Audit Director, Anti-Crime Technology, FCSO and Data Management leads the execution of the Bank’s strategy for independent assurance over Anti-Crime Technology (ACT), Financial Crime and Surveillance Operations (FCSO), and Data Management (DM), with a focus on the effective use of data and technology to manage financial crime and data management-related risks.

The portfolio covers the technology systems, operational processes, data and analytics that support the end-to-end financial crime detection lifecycle, including transaction monitoring, sanctions, transaction and name screening, surveillance, alert and case management, investigations, and operational controls. It also covers data governance, data quality, data lineage, control frameworks, analytics, and reporting that support business and broader risk management.

Key Responsibilities

GIAI represents the third line of defence, whose primary role is to help the Board and Executive Management protect the assets, reputation and sustainability of the Group. GIAI provides independent assurance over management’s awareness of risks and the effective operation of controls within business activities undertaken by the first line, as well as the relevance, effectiveness and monitoring of risk-related controls maintained by Risk Framework Owners and Policy Owners in the second line.

• Ability to communicate complex financial crime, technology, operations, data, and regulatory risks clearly; provide effective independent assurance over governance, risk management, and control frameworks; and leverage data analytics to enhance risk identification, audit testing, continuous monitoring, and insight generation.

• Drive annual audit planning, prioritisation, and portfolio management activities.

• Allocate resources across engagements, ensuring the right skills and expertise are assigned to each review.

• Provide oversight and challenge throughout the audit lifecycle, ensuring quality, consistency, and timely delivery.

• Review and validate reporting to ensure observations, conclusions, and risk assessments are accurate and meaningful.

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders on technology governance, and control matters related to financial crime and data management.

Strategy

• Lead the risk assessment and development of the risk-based Audit Plan for the assigned portfolio, ensuring that key risks, regulatory expectations, strategic priorities and relevant business changes are appropriately considered.

• Maintain the relevance of the assigned Audit Plan throughout the year as the business and risk profile changes, and recommend changes where appropriate.

• Ensure that assigned audits address the key risks identified through risk assessment, audit planning and continuous monitoring.

• Drive relevant GIAI priorities and initiatives that improve audit delivery, risk coverage and the quality of assurance.

People & Talent

• Lead by example and build a collaborative, inclusive and high-performing culture that promotes wellbeing, psychological safety, professional objectivity and constructive challenge.

• Set clear objectives and accountabilities for direct reports, manage performance, provide timely feedback and address performance or conduct matters appropriately.

• Develop audit talent through coaching, career development, succession planning, on-the-job learning and relevant formal training.

• Allocate people and specialist capabilities across the portfolio to meet audit-plan priorities, manage capacity constraints and support effective delivery.

• Build relevant audit capability within GIAI through knowledge sharing, talent identification, recruitment and targeted development.

• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in audit approach, methodology, analytics, automation and continuous monitoring.

Governance

• Represent GIAI at relevant governance committees and senior management forums, providing independent challenge and clear reporting on key risks, audit outcomes, issue themes and emerging risks.

• Ensure that portfolio activities comply with the Audit Charter, GIAI methodology, quality standards, delegated authorities and applicable regulatory expectations.

• Oversee timely escalation of significant audit issues, delivery risks, overdue remediation and matters requiring senior management or committee attention.

• Support regulatory and external assurance engagements relating to the assigned portfolio, ensuring that responses and supporting information are accurate, consistent and timely.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and uphold the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.

• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, regulatory conduct and business conduct across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance, in letter and spirit, with all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.

• Support GIAI in achieving the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles.

• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Senior business, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance and control-function stakeholders relevant to the assigned portfolio.

• GIAI stakeholders, including the Audit Executive Team, Senior Audit Directors, Audit Directors, Team Leaders and Product, Functional, Country and Regional audit teams.

• Regulators and relevant governance committees, where required, including responding to requests relating to audit work and coverage.

• External auditors and professional services firms, where required.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 15 years of experience with a background in technology, financial crime, audit, risk management, or senior managerial roles in relevant functions within large international banks, insurance companies, or similarly regulated financial institutions.

• Strong understanding of governance, risk management, and control frameworks across financial crime technology and data, with ability to provide effective independent assurance.

• Good understanding of Financial Crime and Surveillance Operations processes, including alert handling, investigations, and operational controls.

• Solid familiarity with financial crime regulatory requirements across the Group’s key markets, together with practical experience in assessing or managing financial crime risks in large, complex organisations; hands-on experience is highly valued.

• Credibility and influence with senior business, risk, audit, and regulatory stakeholders, with the ability to explain complex risks and provide clear, independent, and constructive challenge.

• Experience managing sizeable teams, technology portfolios, and strategic initiatives.

• Ongoing development in data governance, analytics, and technology-enabled financial crime detection

• A relevant university degree, such as Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Accounting or a related discipline; advanced qualifications are highly desirable.

• Training or certification in financial crime risk, anti-crime technology, and/or data management frameworks

• Internal audit experience is not required; however, experience in audit or risk management roles would be an advantage.

Anti-Crime Technology (ACT) & FCSO

• Strong experience in financial crime technology, with exposure to transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, case management systems, and surveillance operations

• Good understanding of Financial Crime and Surveillance Operations (FCSO) processes, including alert handling, investigations, and operational controls

• Solid familiarity with Financial Crime regulatory requirements across the Group’s key markets

• Practical experience in assessing or managing financial crime risks in large, complex organisations; hands-on experience is highly valued

Data Management (DM)

• Experience in data management, with exposure to data governance, data quality, data lineage, and control frameworks

• Good understanding of how data supports business and broader risk management, including use of analytics and reporting

• Good understanding of related regulatory expectations across the Group’s key markets

• Experience in assessing or managing data-related risks

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Internal Audit

• Governance, Risk and Controls

• Risk Assessment and Audit Planning

• Audit Delivery and Quality Assurance

• Regulatory Risk and Governance

• People Leadership and Talent Development

• Stakeholdr Management and Effective Communications

• Data Analytics, Automation and AI

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 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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