Senior Investigator Complex Investigations

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom HSBC Full time

If you’re looking to take an exciting new direction with your HSBC career, an internal move can open the door to many opportunities, allowing you to take on a new challenge, and develop your skills. Bring your knowledge of our brand to a new role and grow yourself further.

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. 
A move across the business allows you to continue to access tailored professional development opportunities, and our fantastic benefits packages

We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Global Lead Investigator.

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 role will be positioned in one of FCI’s five global functions aimed at mitigating the harms associated with financial crime: Investigations. As Global Lead investigator, you will be 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. You 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:

• Support, lead and manage a team of multiple investigators
• Review processes and procedures with an eye towards enhancing HSBC’s counter financial crime controls.
• Operate within the complex investigative programs across regions, and countries related to fraud, anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption. Ensure the quality and consistency of the investigations and the adequacy of the resourcing across the investigative program.
• Undertake investigations within a programmatic capability across regions, and countries to conduct complex, proactive, intelligence-driven investigations, bringing together and drawing upon resources in other investigative functions where the nature of the investigation spans multiple geographies or financial crime types.
• Communicate information on the most significant and sensitive investigations and related mitigating actions to Regional and Group senior management to support and facilitate a strategic appraisal of the relevant risks. Able to develop strategic capability to mitigate future threats in response to these significant investigations.
• Identify and escalate the most significant and sensitive investigations to ensure appropriate prioritization, resourcing, and investigative strategy. Communicate to all key stakeholders the ongoing status of such investigations and the related mitigating actions.
• Operate within a systemic capability to refer investigative findings and recommendations to other parts of the firm for follow-on action to mitigate the identified financial crime risk, track the response, and ensure appropriate governance.
• Personally provide the subject matter expertise necessary to inform the work of other parts of FCI, including but not limited to innovations in analytics, identification of typologies, policies and procedures, the engagement strategy, training, and a potentially more effective and efficient regulatory landscape.
• Support the Global, Functional and Regional Heads of Complex Investigations in communicating the most significant and sensitive investigations and related mitigating actions to senior management to support and facilitate a strategic appraisal of the relevant risks.
• As necessary, interact effectively with Regional law enforcement, security and regulatory agencies, and financial intelligence units, in furtherance of public-private partnership, information sharing, and training initiatives, as well as on specific investigations of significance. Fosters good relationships with all of the Group’s counterparts in law enforcement, security and regulatory agencies, and financial intelligence units, across the entire region where HSBC operates.

Requirements

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

• Extensive experience working within a regulatory, investigative, or financial intelligence agency, or as a senior compliance manager or investigations manager in the financial services sector or consultancy.
• Detailed experience in mitigating the harms associated with the threat of financial crime at a strategic level
• Experience reviewing processes and procedures in a regulated entity, with the aim of enhancing counter financial crime controls.
• 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.
• Leadership experience and a strategic, critical thinker.
• 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 London or Edinburgh on a Hybrid basis

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our recruitment processes are accessible to everyone - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.

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