Compliance Analyst

Compliance Analyst at Standard Chartered

We're looking for a Compliance Analyst to join our Country Compliance, Financial Crime & Conduct Risk (CFCR) team in Luxembourg. In this role, you’ll help ensure the bank operates in a safe, well-controlled, and compliant way within a highly regulated environment — including support for digital assets activities.

Working closely with local and regional CFCR colleagues, authorised managers, and key stakeholders, you’ll support compliance monitoring, financial crime controls, risk assessments, and regulatory obligations. This is an excellent opportunity to build deep regulatory exposure while contributing to an evolving and innovative financial services landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of CFCR frameworks, policies, and processes in line with CSSF requirements and Group standards
• Assist with compliance monitoring, risk assessments, and financial crime controls across Luxembourg operations
• Conduct initial reviews of alerts and transactions, escalating issues as appropriate and supporting STR preparation
• Help maintain and update local policies, procedures, and operating instructions
• Support investigations, surveillance, screening, and transaction monitoring activities
• Track and support remediation of compliance and regulatory risks, including emerging (horizon) risks
• Assist with governance, reporting, and preparation of management information for senior stakeholders
• Collaborate with internal teams and regional partners to promote a strong compliance and conduct culture
• Support compliance training, awareness initiatives, and regulatory communications

Skills and Qualifications

• Compliance advisory, monitoring, and risk assessment
• Financial crime controls, including screening, monitoring, and investigations
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
• Ability to interpret regulations and apply them pragmatically
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail
• Confidence working in a fast-moving, international, and regulated environment
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with stakeholders

Qualifications

• Master’s degree (or equivalent)
• 3–5 years’ experience in financial services compliance, financial crime, or audit
• Working knowledge of financial services regulations and risk management practices
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong command of English (written and verbal) - French and/or German - desirable)
• Proactive, hands-on mindset with the ability to prioritise and deliver outcomes

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.

Key skills/competency

• Compliance Advisory
• Financial Crime Controls
• Risk Assessment
• Regulatory Obligations
• AML/KYC
• Digital Assets Compliance
• CSSF Requirements
• Transaction Monitoring
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• Policy Implementation