Kerja Sepenuh Masa, Audit Director - Anti-Crime Technology, FCSO and Data Management di Standard Chartered Bank - Maukerja

Job Summary

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.

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 in technology engineering, architecture or technology leadership, ideally within financial crime technology, banking technology or other large-scale regulated technology environments.
• Significant hands-on experience building, engineering, running or transforming complex technology platforms, preferably including financial crime platforms such as transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, name screening, surveillance or case management.
• Strong experience with data and analytics platforms, including practical exposure to Databricks or comparable modern data platforms, data engineering and advanced analytics.
• Good understanding of how data, analytics and technology are used across the financial crime lifecycle, including transaction monitoring, screening, surveillance, alert generation and investigations.
• Experience assessing or managing technology architecture, platform resilience, system performance, data integrity, technology change and engineering controls in complex environments.
• Strong understanding of financial crime risks, with sufficient domain knowledge to challenge how technology supports financial crime prevention and detection.
• Credibility with senior technology, financial crime, risk and regulatory stakeholders, with the ability to explain complex technology risks clearly and provide constructive challenge.
• A university degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Data Science or another technology-related discipline.
• Internal audit experience is not required.

Anti-Crime Technology (ACT) & FCSO

• Deep experience in financial crime technology or comparable large-scale technology platforms, with hands-on experience building, engineering, operating or transforming complex systems.
• Strong technical understanding of financial crime platforms supporting transaction monitoring, sanctions and name screening, surveillance, alert and case management, and investigations.
• Experience with data engineering, analytics and modern data platforms such as Databricks, including the use of large and complex datasets for monitoring and detection.
• Strong understanding of technology architecture, system integration, APIs, data pipelines, platform resilience, performance and technology controls.
• Strong understanding of financial crime processes, including alert handling, investigations and operational controls, and how these processes interact with underlying technology and data.
• Strong understanding of financial crime regulatory requirements and their implications for technology, data and control design.
• Experience challenging or making technical decisions within large and complex technology environments.

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
• Stakeholder Management and Effective Communications
• Data Analytics, Automation and AI

About Standard Chartered

We're a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. Our strategy, which combines cross-border capabilities and leading wealth management expertise, helps us deliver our purpose - to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.Over our 170-year history, and across a unique geographical footprint connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to each other and the world, we've built a bank like no other, with diverse capabilities and partnerships that set us apart.

What we offer

• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation , one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.
• 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 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.

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