The Role Responsibilities

Processes

• Process daily transactions ensuring all payments have been reviewed and approved, including incoming CHIPS and Fedwire Payments, returns and exception payments
• Ensure all necessary documentation is provided when needed for all payments including but not limited to OFAC items
• Identify ways of increasing workflow efficiency by noting banks that can be set up with account insertions
• Scanning of documentation for control purposes
• Ensure all payments processed are received via authenticated means
• Strong knowledge of payments search engines used to locate banks and routing instructions
• Ensure proper handling of Fed drawdown requests
• Knowledge of special handling products: SWF 56 fulfilment, 10 Day hold items, advising on MT cancellations, processing of Exception printer items
• Strong awareness of time sensitivity of certain payments i.e. code 1500 Foreign Fed payments, Visa and Mastercard drawdowns, processing of official processing.

Risk Management

• Responsible of maintaining a current awareness and understanding of appropriate banking laws, regulations, internal policies and procedures to comply fully with those laws, regulations, AML. Recognize any unusual activity and refers to team leader/supervisor or manage. Ensure avoidance of operational loss. Protects the customer and bank from undue financial risk.

Governance

• Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

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.
• Lead the Funds Transfer Operations team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Cash Management Operations team
• CSG team
• R& I (customer service)
• MTS Support
• Information Security Team, CTM Cash Management Team
• Transaction Banking
• Credit Risk Control

Other Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with the Groups Values and Brand Here for Good
• Support team concept by own actions as a team player via information sharing with USCMS team to effectively maintain up to date records on routing instructions, BIC/SWIFT addresses
• Effectively collaborate and communicate with other departments

Our Ideal candidate

• Solid working knowledge of Funds Transfer operations, systems, policies and procedures
• Understanding of CHIPS, Fedwire and SWIFT formatting
• Possess good communications skills, be customer oriented and possess strong knowledge of geographical locations
• Workable PC skills
• Adaptability o changing environments

Role Specific Competencies

• ITO – Service Delivery & Operations Management
• Operations – Back Office
• Information System -applications and PC Skills

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 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
• 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 including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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.
• 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.

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 58,000 USD to 70,000 USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations.

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