Job description

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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 62 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Analyst, Financial Crime Detection and DE

Business: Risk and Compliance

Principal responsibilities

  • Co-ordinate and manage projects; typically working on smaller projects/assignments.
  • Assist in delivery of larger projects.
  • Implement company policy and contribute to the attainment of functional results.
  • Ensure the quality of tasks/services provided by colleagues, involving regular process checks or review of output by a co-worker and/or supervisor.
  • Provide advice and assistance through application of acquired knowledge.
  • Identify and escalate issues.
  • Communicate technical/sensitive information.
  • Co-ordinate and oversee work for a small team to meet agreed deadlines.
  • Management responsibility for a team; including people, objective setting and performance.
  • Provide general guidance/direction to mentor members of the team or develop their skills.
  • Understand and adhere to established policies and procedures in own team.
  • Support change initiatives and escalate any concerns.

Impact on the Business

  • Provide management and direction to cross-functional experts (pods) from analytics, technology, transformation and product management and key stakeholders across global functions and regions.
  • Implementing a consistent and effective management approach across the functional areas.
  • Prime interface within the Detection Value Stream for all Change and Prioritisation matters.
  • Support the FC Leadership in the delivery of investment across technology, intelligence, and analytics to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, security and cost profile of FC.
  • Assist drive, develop and implement programmes to quantify impacts and implement actions to address, manage and mitigate impacts of policy and regulatory changes impacting FC Risk & Control environment.
  • As required by leadership, attend and represent FC in governance forums and meetings.

Customer / Stakeholders

  • Develop and Manage relationships with key internal stakeholders across Group functions, lines of business, regions, and countries.
  • Facilitate the sharing of information and creation of feedback loops across the firm, with particular focus on wider FC Detection stakeholder to continuously adapt and improve change management and optimisation.
  • Oversees the support and coordination capability necessary to manage the response to high priority FC Detection Feedback requiring a coordinated response across Group Financial Crime functions, Compliance, lines of business, regions, or countries.
  • Develop and maintain a strong and professional working relationship with Senior Management of FC, Risk, Audit and Finance at Business, Group and Regional levels
  • Ensure appropriate timely and relevant risk information is provided to FC leadership and appropriate governance forums

Operational Effectiveness and Control

  • Drive the articulation and embedding of FC Detection Optimisation controls. Ensure that these are updated for changes in regulation and impacts on business.
  • Resolve any / all identified issues promptly and escalate concerns to management as appropriate to ensure timely awareness of any material concerns.
  • Maintain and observe all HSBC control standards and implement relevant policies, including the timely implementation of recommendations made by internal / external auditors and external regulators.
  • Where required, support the articulation and embedding of framework, policies, procedures, and controls as they relate to FC Controls.
  • Maintain awareness of operational risk within the value stream and minimise the likelihood of it occurring including its identification, assessment, mitigation and control, loss identification and reporting.
  • Develop and present options to implement controls whilst retaining full benefit from investment in systems.

Leadership & Teamwork 

  • Ensure effective communication across Financial Crime and the business to all key stakeholders in relation to FC Detection matters
  • Support the sharing of developments and best practice across the wider FC Function
  • Support deliver the value stream approach aligned to detection outcomes to deliver a seamless integration of cross-functional expertise
  • Maintain and develop positive and professional working relationships with senior business leaders, Risk and Compliance colleagues at Group, Regional and Market / Entity level
  • Work effectively as part of a team, taking the lead where appropriate and contributing to team output and collaboration
  • Foster a learning agile culture, promoting proactive review of lessons learned
Requirements
  • Understanding of Global Financial Crime landscape and the various risk typologies and having good visibility to the eminent changes in landscape.
  • Existing Financial Crime Detection capabilities and the limitations therein.
  • Awareness of technological advancements in Financial Crime detection capabilities.

Technical Knowledge

  • Proficient in Data Analytics using Python, Advance Excel, PowerPoint, Machine Learning
  • Knowledge in Power BI, Tableau, Qliksense is a plus
  • Knowledge in VBA is a plus
  • Knowledge in AWS, GCP is a plus
  • Knowledge in NLM and Generative AI is a plus
  • The role is for GCB 6 having 3-5 years of analytics experience (great if it is in financial crime domain)

Others

  • HSBC is an extremely diverse business with significant geographical spread and activities that span a universal banking model, including continuing to innovate to keep abreast of changes in financial services markets globally. Such activity is in an increasingly regulated and complex global environment with often little consistency between laws and regulations in different jurisdictions and regulators taking a far more proactive approach in ensuring local compliance with their requirements and imposing increasingly stringent sanctions for breaches.
  • The role will assist the Group in achieving a balance between the demands of regulators, external bodies and governmental initiatives and the Group’s shareholders and customers in enacting FC compliance; being alive to the political, management, regulatory and reputational implications of a particular decision and courses of action at a global level; assisting executive management in the development of controls and systems and influencing the way in which the business is conducted in order to manage these risks, meeting Group risk appetite. The increased focus on individual liability for senior managers, particularly Risk Heads, makes it increasingly important for the Group to be able to evidence adequate systems and controls. The role is one where regulatory authorities have high expectations and is likely to come under scrutiny as part of any major regulatory investigation.

You’ll achieve more at HSBC

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.”

 

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