Associate Director, CFCR, Jersey

Job Description

Are you an experienced compliance professional with a strong understanding of compliance risk and regulatory frameworks? We are looking for a dynamic Associate Director, CFCR to oversee compliance advisory across Standard Chartered Jersey and the Falkland Islands. This role is perfect for a compliance leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, providing expert regulatory guidance and governance support across multiple jurisdictions.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a key compliance advisor, providing approvals on transaction referrals, financial promotions, and regulatory reporting.
• Offer expert CDD advisory, including adverse media, PEP assessments, sanctions queries, and new business referrals.
• Support regulatory compliance, ensuring adherence to AML/CFT/CPF requirements and local codes of practice.
• Oversee complaints management and ensure effective compliance monitoring through CSTs and control checks.
• Provide strategic cross-border advisory and ensure data protection compliance.
• Lead regulatory change management, staying ahead of evolving laws and implementing necessary adjustments.
• Develop and deliver compliance training to stakeholders.
• Manage policies, standards, and procedures, ensuring they are up to date and aligned with best practices.
• Conduct trade surveillance and market abuse monitoring.
• Oversee vendor and invoice management.
• Support governance initiatives, including risk assessments, compliance attestations, and management information reporting.
  
  

Skills And Qualifications

Skills & Expertise

• Strong knowledge of compliance, regulatory frameworks, and financial crime risk management.
• Expertise in private, investment, and retail banking compliance.
• Familiarity with investment products, fiduciary services, and advisory-related regulations.
• Solid understanding of banking and securities products in private and retail banking.
• Ability to assess and interpret global regulatory requirements and ensure local compliance.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and external regulators.
• Proven ability to work independently, exercising sound judgment and personal integrity.
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience in a Compliance Advisory or Governance role.
• Vast experience in financial services, with exposure to offshore/private banking/retail banking.
• Professional compliance qualifications (governance, risk, and compliance) are highly desirable.
• Knowledge of global financial regulations, particularly in consumer investment and lending.
• Experience in regulatory reporting, risk assessments, and compliance monitoring.
  
  

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.