CyFI Intelligence Officer

This role is responsible for conducting all aspects of the intelligence analysis and project review functions required in support of Standard Chartered New York’s Financial Crime Intelligence Unit’s ("FCIU") Cyber Financial Intelligence Unit ("CyFI"). The CyFI team proactively identifies strategic networks, state and non-state actors that utilize cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent methods to conduct financial crime, including but not limited to money laundering, financial fraud, human trafficking, criminal use of digital assets, and sanctions evasion.

Conduct analysis of internal information and data, open-source information, subscription, and social media sources to identify broader trends, corridors, and emerging financial crime risks to the Bank. Collaborate with external stakeholders including research institutions, industry partners, law enforcement, and government agencies. Leverage data analytics, link analysis, and cybercrime expertise to reduce risk exposure to current and emerging threats.

Strategy

• Be aware of and execute the prescribed strategy of Regional SCB leadership in day-to-day operations, as related to mitigating financial crime risk and meeting or exceeding current and relevant future regulatory compliance requirements

Business

• Continually monitor the external environment through various internal/external sources and the media to identify financial crime risks which may potentially impact the bank in the future, map and assess those risks, quantify the potential impact and escalate where necessary.

Processes

• Conduct the intelligence analysis and investigative case review functions required in support the Cyber Financial Intelligence Unit’s initiatives to identify cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent financial crime and extant or emerging financial crime threats.
• Provide subject matter expertise on financial crime compliance, drawing on financial intelligence and law enforcement networks, professional qualifications and experience.
• Collaborate and engage with external partners including representatives from US government agencies, law enforcement and peer financial institutions.
• Identify instances of potential financial crime or suspicious activity, AML/CFT risk concentrations, and non-compliant transactional activity and make appropriate and timely internal referrals and escalations to US Investigations, Sanctions, Client Services/Business, FCC Management or applicable Governance bodies.
• Work closely with the US Investigations Unit to support the timely filing of Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) with the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Work closely and collaboratively with CFCR and the business (first line of defense) in the identification and remediation of risk concentrations identified during intelligence reviews.
• Conduct detailed and voluminous transactional reviews using Excel to detect and report on potentially suspicious activity.

Execute Compliance Governance, Frameworks and Models

• Proven understanding of AML/CTF-related laws, regulations, policies, procedures and standards; familiarity with financial crime threats in Bank primary areas of operation
• Ability to provide financial crime compliance advisory to key stakeholders

Software, Applications, Database and Research

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access) with the ability to generate pivot tables, graphs, and charts; mastery of spreadsheet-based data-management and analysis.
• Working knowledge of SharePoint with the ability to upload and update files.
• Working knowledge of link analysis and network development, and basic data analytics

Compliance Policies and Standards

• Understand, apply and advise on current policies and practices of Financial Crime Compliance with some guidance on straightforward and some complex issues
• Keep up to date on local issues that could contribute to Financial Crime Compliance vulnerability and horizon risks and consider implications for policies and procedures from a business, risk, compliance and culture perspective
• Provide training to staff on Financial Crime Compliance policies and procedures

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