Senior Insider Threat Investigator

Job Summary Ready to take the next step in your career with us? • To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good. • We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base. About the team • The Insider Threat Defence Team (part of the Cyber Security & Anti Crime Technology function within Technology & Operations is a relatively new team, which has started to make a big impact. The team works with stakeholders and peers across the Bank to detect, investigate and manage events which may harm the Bank or its’ assets. About the role • We now need a Senior Insider Threat Investigator to help us grow further. • In this role, you will be responsible for leading the day-to-day efforts to identify and assess insider risks, threats, and events as well as help identify control weaknesses and drive control enhancements across a wide variety of business and functions at Standard Chartered. As a senior specialist in the team you will be involved in complex investigations and surveillance of known or suspected threats as well as escalation to relevant stakeholders and partner functions including outcome management. • The successful candidate will have experience in conducting investigations, including forensics, applying risk assessment methodologies to uncover control gaps in business processes, applications, and assets. Key Responsibilities Strategy • Define and Champion Insider Threat Strategy: Together with the Head of Insider Threat, develop and lead the multi-year strategic roadmap for the Insider Threat program, ensuring its continuous evolution to address emerging risks, new technologies, and regulatory changes within the financial sector. • Oversee Technology Investment and Governance: Work with the Head of Insider Threat to strengthen and advance the insider threat program by leading the evaluation and strategic adoption of next-generation insider threat technology solutions to enhance insider threat visibility, detection, and mitigation. Identify patterns and trends in insider threat incidents to inform strategic decision-making. • Advance the Bank's insider threat strategy for emerging AI related risks, including AI tool misuse, AI enabled data exposure and AI / ML driven detection and analytics. • Analyse behavioural and digital data to identify high-risk individuals or activities. • Provide actionable insights to senior leadership, including quarterly and annual reports on program effectiveness. Business • Collaborate with HR, Employee Relations, Legal, Investigation and IT teams to align insider threat policies with organizational goals and compliance requirements. • Facilitate cross-functional communication and ensure alignment on mitigation strategies. • Responsible for partnerships with stakeholders to ensure timely and appropriate collaboration and consistent consequence management is taking place. • Responsible for investigating a diverse range of insider incidents, including physical policy violations, data leaks, espionage, frauds, and theft of IP. Gather and analyse evidence, conduct interviews, apply technical expertise to identify root cause(s) and present legally compliant, objective findings and recommendations to stakeholders at all levels. • Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies during investigations and program development. Processes • Responsible for logging, prioritising and managing incidents reported by stakeholders and those received by the Insider Team via various channels. • Mitigate insider threats by utilising insider threat management tools and technology to conduct analytics and investigation. • Responsible to develop and update policies in the insider risk management platform tool to ensure accuracy and timely detection of insider threat activities. • Responsible for escalation of major incidents to the relevant stakeholders, ensuring proper communication and coordination throughout the incident resolution process. • Provide consultation on analysis of incident data to identify trends, recurring issues, and areas requiring improvement. • Consult, provide recomme…