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Requisition Number: 56904
Job Location: Frankfurt, DEU
Global Grade: Band 6
Work Type: Hybrid Working
Employment Type: Permanent
Posting Start Date: 29/06/2026
Posting End Date: 31/07/2026
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Job Summary
Join our Financial Crime Compliance team and play a key role in protecting the bank from financial crime risks. As an Associate Director, FCC Investigations, you will lead complex investigations into suspicious activity, support regulatory reporting, provide expert guidance on AML and sanctions matters, and contribute to the enhancement of monitoring, screening, and compliance controls across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and conduct investigations into potential money laundering, sanctions breaches, fraud, and other financial crime risks
Review and manage suspicious activity cases and support regulatory reporting where required.
Investigate sanctions, KYC, and PEP alerts in line with regulatory requirements
Provide guidance to stakeholders on financial crime regulations, risks, and best practices.
Support the enhancement of FCC controls, systems, monitoring, and screening processes.
Contribute to system implementation, model validation, and oversight of outsourced activities.
Collaborate with local, regional, and global stakeholders to strengthen the bank’s financial crime risk management framework.
Qualifications
4–6+ years of experience in Financial Crime Compliance, AML, investigations, or sanctions within banking or financial services
Strong knowledge of AML, CTF, sanctions, KYC, and regulatory requirements
Experience conducting complex investigations and preparing high-quality case document ation.
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills
Proactive, solution-oriented mindset, with a demonstrated ability to identify process improvement opportunities and contribute to the enhancement of controls, efficiency, and overall compliance effectiveness.
Fluent German and English, with the ability to communicate effectively with regulators and senior stakeholders.
Professional certifications in financial crime compliance, such as CAMS, ICA Diploma, CCP, or comparable qualifications, are strongly preferred.

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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