GRIT Trainee - Financial Crime Surveillance Operations (FCSO)

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK; Singapore; On-site; SGD 20,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international financial institution in Singapore is offering a traineeship that provides hands-on experience in financial crime investigations and project management. Graduates from 2024 and 2025 are encouraged to apply. The role includes learning about data analysis, enhancing communication skills, and exposure to various banking functions. The organization values diversity and inclusion, providing a supportive culture for growth and professional development.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working options

Wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Qualifications

• Graduated or graduating in 2024 and 2025 from universities.
• Have the permanent legal right to work in Singapore.
• Keen interest in Banking and Finance industry.

Responsibilities

• Conduct thorough investigations into suspicious activities.
• Assist in planning, executing, and monitoring projects.
• Gather and analyze data to build understanding of financial crime.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Multi-cultural awareness

Communication skills

Education

University degree (graduating 2024 or 2025)

Tools

SAS

Python

R

Job description

Trainees who join FCSO functions will join one of the following teams – FCSO Investigations or FCSO Business Management team for up to 6-months.

FCSO is the Bank’s specialist utility in the 1st Line of Defence (1LOD) 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. At FCSO, we aim to work collaboratively with our partners across the businesses to deliver deliver effective and sustainable surveillance capabilities to protect the bank from financial crime risk.

In FCSO investigations, you will learn to conduct thorough investigations into suspicious activities flagged by monitoring systems and learn to gather and analyze data from various sources to build a comprehensive understanding of potential financial crime.

Trainees in the Business Management team will assist in planning, executing and monitoring projects to learn effective project management techniques. Trainees will also be exposed to data analysis to identify trends, opportunities and areas for improvement and prepare reports and presentations to communicate findings.

During this traineeship, we will guide you in building the skills and capabilities needed to succeed in a career in Surveillance operations. You will learn domain knowledge of our Surveillance services and other technical and meta-skills relevant to being a successful operations professional of the future.

Eligibility

• Graduated or graduating in 2024 and 2025 from universities
• Have the permanent legal right to work in Singapore
• Keen interest in Banking and Finance industry
• Possesses excellent interpersonal skills, multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge in coding and programming languages like SAS, Python or R
• Proficiency in Analytics to utilise data driven insights and identify trends

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.

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