Financial Crime & Surveillance Operations Graduate

Financial Crime Surveillance Operations Graduate

The digital revolution has transformed banking and financial services. At the centre of our evolution is our Transformation, Technology and Operations (TTO) team. They partner with our business, functions, regional and market teams, across our global footprint, to reshape our future. They’re a diverse, collaborative team, leading cutting-edge and complex transformation projects and providing and maintaining banking operational excellence. All teams bring passion, innovation, diversity of thought and culture, and an ambition to realise our transformation journey.

Our Financial Crime Surveillance Operations (FCSO) team sits within the Transformation, Technology, and Operations teams serve more than 17,000 clients worldwide. Their role is to develop the Group's systems and technology infrastructure, digitise our banking services, and make banking easier for our customers. As a leading digital banking platform, we provide banking services, power global trade and commerce, and provide financial services. Our new software development and major enhancements are cloud-first to make banking easier for our clients. 

FCSO is the Bank’s specialist utility in the 1st Line of Defence undertaking review of risk events generated, analysis of red flags and resolution or escalation of risk. We are the first step in the Bank’s fight against financial crime, responsible for managing the risk in the processes and ensuring an effective control environment. Our teams are located across 26 locations, supporting over 40 markets worldwide. 

About the Graduate Programme

Graduates who join the FCSO Graduate programme will go through a 12 months learning and development journey with various FCSO functions (including but not limited to Transaction Monitoring & Fraud, Screening & Reg Control & Risk Management) before being placed into FCSO Surveillance operations roles.

During this learning journey, we will invest in helping you build the skills and capabilities needed to succeed in a career in Surveillance operations. We will provide you with domain knowledge of our Surveillance services and other technical and meta-skills relevant to being a successful operations professional of the future. We will provide opportunities for you to engage with our senior leaders globally, pitch your ideas, and demonstrate your problem-solving skills.

Over a year you’ll experience an incredible and varied global learning experience, which will include: 

• Talent assignments
• Technical and professional skills training
• Future skills development workshops
• Targeted online learning
• Inspiring thought leadership speaker events,
• Real-life business problem solving and more.

We’ll provide you with the tools, training, network, and support to help you become a change agent, and drive innovation and creativity across the Bank.

Programme preview

New joiner onboarding – to help orientate you into the bank, your new team and your role. We want to make sure you feel supported in your first few weeks with us.

Learn and grow – with access to tools and learning experiences to help you realise your full potential. While the experience will vary depending on the team or role you join, you’ll be exposed to all sorts of ways to start your career.

Be part of the family – not only will you meet other students on our programmes, you’ll also get to meet people from across the bank, build your professional network and understand the Standard Chartered difference. 

Eligibility 

We welcome students from all degree disciplines with excellent academic records and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. 

• Final year students, able to start July 2024
• Permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to
• We’re looking for team players who are agile, flexible, multi-tasking and open to nimble learning

Exceptions 

• UK and UAE, we consider candidates requiring visa sponsorship. In the UAE, priority is given to UAE nationals
• US Graduate roles, we will not consider applicants seeking Optional Practical Training (OPT) or Curricular Practical Training (CPT) employment. 

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 colleagues, clients and communities.  And we’re on a journey to be the world’s most sustainable and responsible bank.  

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
• 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
• Time-off includes volunteering leave, maternity and parental leave for spouse/partner, compassionate leave, sabbatical leave, along with market competitive annual leave
• 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.
• Recruitment assessments  

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.