Specialist , Financial Crime Transaction Monitoring

Job ID: 31027

Location: Frankfurt, DE

Area of interest: Governance, Risk Management & Compliance

Job type: Fixed Term Worker

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 4 Jun 2025

**Job Summary**-
**Key Responsibilities**
- Daily review and analysis of transaction monitoring alerts and cases.
- Investigate potential suspicious activities related to money laundering and terrorist financing using internal systems and external databases.
- Escalate cases with potential financial crime risk to the FCC Investigations team.
- Work closely with front-office relationship managers and other relevant stakeholders.
- Communicate findings clearly and escalate issues when required.
- Identify and report significant financial crime risk events, including cross-border implications.
- Ensure senior management is informed of serious regulatory breaches and assist in swift remediation actions.
- Support internal control checks under the Operational Risk Framework (ORF).
- Uphold the Group’s values and Code of Conduct.
- Promote a culture of compliance, integrity, and ethical behaviour within the team.
- Support the Country Money Laundering Compliance Officer as needed.
- Uphold and embed the “Here for good” values and the Group’s brand standards.

**Skills and Experience**
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate complex data sets and identify anomalies.
- Excellent communication skills in both English and German, written and spoken.
- Skilled in using investigative tools, internet searches, MS Office Suite, and proprietary systems.
- Service-oriented mindset with strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

**Experience**:

- Prior experience in transaction monitoring, AML, or related financial crime roles.
- Banking operations knowledge, with expertise in at least one client segment (corporate or correspondent banking).

**Qualifications**
- Education Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business related field.
- Languages Excellent communication in English and German (articulation and writing)

**Competencies**
- Action Oriented- Collaborates- Customer Focus- Gives Clarity & Guidance- Manages Ambiguity- Develops Talent- Drives Vision & Purpose- Nimble Learning- Decision Quality- Courage- Instills Trust- Strategic Mindset- **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.

**Recruitment Assessments**