Investigator Complex Investigations - Risk and Compliance
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Our Risk and Compliance function has a critical role to play in supporting, challenging and advising across all areas of the business through establishing policy, monitoring profiles, and identifying and managing forward-looking risk and compliance. We focus on creating an environment that encourages our people to speak up and do the right thing, as well as protecting our customers, the organisation and the integrity of the financial markets in which we operate. Already an industry-leader in many respects, we want to continue setting standards and evolving to respond to strategic changes.
As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Head of Investigative Reporting. Investigative Reporting is one of five teams (Transaction Monitoring Operations, Triage, Investigative Reporting, Major Investigations and Complex Investigations) with responsibility for analysing and/or investigating cases generated by system generated and non-system generated leads of unusual activity to assess whether there is potential financial crime risk with referrals made for appropriate mitigating actions.
We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Investigator, Complex Investigations.
Financial Crime Investigations (FCI) focuses on the specific financial crime threats the firm faces now and, in the future, pioneering the techniques and technology that protect our business, our customers, and the many communities in which we operate from the harms associated with financial crime. FCI harnesses intelligence, analytics, technology, investigation, information sharing, and public-private partnership to achieve this end, always seeking the most effective and efficient means.
Investigations is responsible for all Compliance investigations for HSBC, including pursuing proactive investigations to identify financial crime risks in the bank. Complex Investigations initiates reactive and proactive investigations and investigates the most complex cases.
In this role as Investigator, Complex Investigations, you will:
* Takes part in complex proactive and reactive investigations, leveraging resources from across the Group to support investigations involving multiple geographies or financial crime typologies.
* Investigating complex corporate structures and making sound decisions on the boundaries of any financial crime risk when they pertain to large corporate relationships.
* Identifies and escalates the most significant and sensitive investigations to Regional and Group senior management, and communicates this information in the form of succinct, professional written products and oral briefings.
* Will develop the ability to provide subject matter expertise to other parts of FCI, including but not limited to innovations in analysis and identification of typologies.
* Establishes seamless, trusting, and mutually supportive relationships with the other components of FCI, Financial Crime Compliance (FCC), and Group Legal’s Global Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement (GIRE) team.
* Uses a variety of internal and external systems/sources for routine analysis.
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:
* A relevant background within the following industries: Financial crime investigations or intelligence teams in financial services or government, Professional services firm, involved in consultancy or forensic accounting, Compliance within a global firm in the financial services industry or Investigative journalism; non-governmental organizations or think tanks that conduct investigations or analysis relating to financial crime or other geopolitical issues.
* Experience in mitigating the harms associated with the threat of financial crime at a strategic level.
* Experience in working on cross-jurisdictional matters and understanding of regional specific financial crime concerns (e.g Americas, ASP).
* Understanding of the current regulatory environment and expectations, relevant regulations, codes, and HSBC Group Standards, as well as their underlying purpose to mitigate risk to the financial system and provide information useful for the public sector to provide law enforcement and security.
* A strategic thinker.
* Excellent communication and inter-personal skills, with experience of dealing with executives at all levels.
* Ability to develop creative, efficient and effective solutions to complex, globally relevant issues.
The base location for this role is Edinburgh – Hybrid working
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