Senior Audit Manager - T&O - Digital Assets, Anti-Crime Technology & FSCO

Job Summary

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Group Internal Audit & Investigations (GIAI) at Standard Chartered Bank is seeking an experienced Senior Audit Manager to join the Anti-Crime Technology and Financial Crime and Surveillance Operations (FCSO) audit team, with exposure to Digital Assets. The primary responsibility of the role is to lead and execute audits across the Group’s Digital Asset and Anti-Crime Technology landscape, providing independent assurance over the design and effectiveness of controls supporting digital asset activities, financial crime operations, surveillance capabilities, and related technology platforms.

The role requires strong experience across digital asset custody and trading, blockchain, transaction screening and monitoring, watchlist and case management. The successful candidate will combine strong Digital Asset, Financial Crime and Anti-Crime Technology audit experience with effective stakeholder management skills to assess risks, challenge control environments, and provide independent assurance over the Group's Digital Asset ecosystem, financial crime controls, and supporting technology platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Audit Delivery
•    Act as Team Manager or Team Leader to deliver audits timely. 
•    Execute audit work and issue validation in an efficient and effective manner, within the given budget and timelines.
•    Provide clear guidance, detailed review, and supervision of the audit team’s work, so that audit deliverables meet quality standards.
•    Clearly identify the risks and impact of issues during issue writing, agreeing these issues with management and obtaining quality management action plans to mitigate the risk.
•    Provide guidance to the team on business / audit technical knowledge and management skills.
•    Champion innovation and increase the use of leading edge methods, such as artificial intelligence and data analytics, in audit assignments.
•    Ensure timely and open communication throughout the audit process, within GIAI and with the auditee. 
•    Track the implementation / delivery of the agreed issues and action plans for the audits assigned, understanding the key risks arising, provide advice on resolution of issues to auditees/action plan owners and escalate audit findings that remain unresolved.
•    Carry out their role in line with the Audit Charter and remain independent from management and free from interference

Personal Behaviours
•    Model valued behaviours and foster an environment that recognises positive contributions. 
•    Engage with peers to enhance knowledge sharing.
•    Seek external perspectives to improve audit work.
•    Provide expertise to support GIAI audit teams.
•    Implement and support department initiatives, including planning and training.

People & Talent
•    Build and maintain relationships with key GIAI, Anti-Crime Technology & FCS Operations stakeholders to understand business developments including regulatory concerns, identify emerging risks, and facilitate execution of audit work. 
•    Share knowledge, skills and experience with team members and the wider GIAI and provide advisory to internal auditors from both Business and Technology teams.
•    Contribute to building a high performing collaborative function through regular feedback and coaching.

Risk Management
•    Complete relevant risk assessment activities in a timely and effective manner, including the completion of the Risk Assessment template.
•    Assist in continuous auditing and monitoring of key risks in the portfolio.
•    Follow changes in the laws and regulations to identify emerging risks.
•    Utilise the risk assessment process and stakeholder engagement to determine an anticipatory audit plan. 

Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct. 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders
•    Designated Anti-Crime Technology & FCS Operations stakeholders, typically related to individual audit assignments and the assigned portfolio. 
•    GIAI stakeholders, including Team Members, Team Leaders, Team Managers, Accountable Executive Team, Portfolio, Functional, Country and Cluster Heads of Audit.

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for Good and Group’s brand and values in GIAI.
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Skills and Experience

•    Internal Audit
•    Data Analytics (Python, Power BI, Tableau, SQL) 
•    Digital Assets 
•    English ( Written/Spoken)
•    Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint

Qualifications

•    Education: Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent.
•    Training: Minimum of 10 years hands-on experience in the Audit, and/or Banking and Financial Services industry.     
•    Certifications: Chartered Accountant, Certified Internal Audit (CIA), Digital Assets related certification, Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) will be advantageous. 

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.