Job Description

Job description

Some careers have more impact than others.

If you\xe2\x80\x99re looking for a role where you can continue to make an impression, take the next step at HSBC where your contributions will always be valued.

Global Risk & Compliance is a thriving and expert risk management function supporting HSBC globally with all aspects of risk management. The team actively manages a varied and dynamic range of risk types, including security, fraud, information security, contingency, geopolitical, operational, credit, pension, insurance, financial crime and regulatory compliance, market, and reputation risks. All parts of the Global Risk & Compliance team use their skills, insight, and integrity to handle established threats and those they see emerging, acting to protect and enable HSBC to deliver sustainable growth.

We are currently seeking creative, ambitious individuals to join our team as Investigators for Complex Investigations within the Financial Crime Investigations sub-function, working together with colleagues to investigate, manage and mitigate the most critical financial crime risks HSBC faces.

Role Purpose

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.

The jobholder is positioned in one of FCI\xe2\x80\x99s five global functions aimed at mitigating the harms associated with financial crime: Investigations. The jobholder is required to ensure high-risk case work is adequately resourced to ensure proper, timely, and high-quality investigation and mitigation of potential risk to the bank, as well as serving as a key point of coordination and collaboration on global investigative case work. The jobholder will ensure global cases are properly networked, referrals for action are tracked and completed in a timely fashion, and all relevant stakeholders for respective investigations are involved.

In this role, you will:

• Takes part in complex, proactive, intelligence-driven investigations, leveraging resources from across the Group to support investigations involving multiple geographies or financial crime typologies.
• 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 Internal Investigations (GIRE).
• Uses a variety of internal and external systems/sources for routine analysis.

Requirements

To be successful in the role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Experience working within a regulatory, investigative, or financial intelligence agency, or as a compliance manager within a global and/or consultancy firm, in the financial services industry.
• Detailed experience in mitigating the harms associated with the threat of financial crime at a strategic level.
• An excellent 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.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills, with experience of dealing with executives at all levels.
• Ability to develop efficient and effective solutions to complex global issues.

Experience and/or skills in the following areas would also be advantageous:

• Forensic accounting and/or data interrogation and analysis.
• Overseas experience or regular liaison with stakeholders from different regions and/or jurisdictions.
• Knowledge of data sharing restrictions.

The base location for this role is Edinburgh on a Hybrid basis.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

We believe that being open to a range of perspectives and cultures is vital for our business. We work hard to ensure our diverse and inclusive workplace reflects the communities we serve. We want everyone to achieve their potential \xe2\x80\x93 regardless of their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. If you have a different way of seeing the world, we are interested in hearing from you.

HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please contact our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com
Telephone: +44 2078328500.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism. This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

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