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Financial Crime Compliance aligns current activities within Global Risk and helps to build these into a more integrated framework to conduct Customer Due Diligence which enables HSBC to manage financial crime risk more effectively. It builds stronger controls to improve the way Financial Crime Compliance risks are managed in order to spot gaps as well as trends so that the team can take action. It proactively gathers and analyses financial intelligence in a smart way so that suspicious transactions, activities or connections can be identified, and we can adequately protect our customers from the threat of financial crime.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as an Investigations Manager, Global Trade and Lending Investigations.

Principal Responsibilities

• The role holder will be a member of a multi skilled team responsible for the in-depth investigation of CMB and GB cases generated by Trade Fraud and Trade Based Money Laundering post TM systems (e.g. Quantexa and Global TradeNet) and unusual activity reports (FC-UARs)
• Arrive at logical investigation findings after analysing vast volume of information and discuss such with stakeholders in both Business and Risk in a timely manner for appropriate inputs and risk mitigating actions
• Undertake professional, timely, globally consistent investigations and effectively communicate with regional and global stakeholders
• Prepare and submit clear, concise, factual, unbiased, thorough and timely investigation reports
• Communicate regularly with the business to ensure financial crime risk themes are identified to assist the business to mitigate risk as effectively as possible
• Provide timely management information, demonstrating efficiency and qualitative metrics
• Refer investigative findings and recommendations to other parts of the Group for follow-on action to aid risk mitigation
• Personally provide subject matter expertise on wholesale and trade finance investigations necessary to ensure the investigative product is of the highest standard whilst ensuring that all investigators undertaking wholesale and trade finance investigations are competent in all financial crime typologies
• Provide subject matter expertise to help define global wholesale and trade investigations strategy and procedures

• The role holder is required to assist the Senior Manager Investigations in implementing Group policy and procedure with respect to ensuring effective review of Fraud/TBML investigations
• Highly effective in working with all levels of management and staff. Strong relationship management skills with the ability to manage & engage multiple stakeholders, meet their expectations, negotiate in situations of conflicting interests and influence key decision makers in a positive manner
• Following experience / exposures are highly beneficial but all not essential - corporate lending / relationship management; wholesale credit risk; forensic accounting; trade finance; fraud/ML investigations
• Excellent communication, inter-personal skills and presentation skills with experience dealing with executives at all levels and leading diverse functional stakeholders, to achieve shared objectives
• Good working knowledge of the different markets that CMB and GB&M operate in (with a preference for previous frontline experience being highly desirable and wholesale risk coverage as a minimum requirement)
• Highly motivated, self-starter with a strong work ethic
• Aptitude to work on financial crime cases using intelligence and analytical tools
• Ability to maintain control, direction and motivation in an ever-changing environment
• Ability to analyse large amounts of data efficiently, draw conclusions on what the data means and actions required
• Strong team player, helping to maintain a co-operative, conscientious and customer-focused environment
• Strong networker able to effectively manage time-sensitive issues involving multiple stakeholders
• Able to assess impact of decisions and propose reasoned recommendations
• Operates effectively across cultures and in multi-cultural diverse work environment

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