AML Investigations Assistant Manager

The Anti-Money Laundering Investigations (AMLi) Assistant Manager role is based within Risk Building.

The role of the AMLi Assistant Manager is responsible for delivering operational outcomes for the following areas:

• Co-ordination of the Amli investigative triage function, ensuring seamless interaction with the Financial Intelligence Unit and the Financial Crime Compliance Investigation function.
• Oversight and co-ordination of Suspicious activity report (SAR) trending (contextual) analysis
• Co-ordination of AMLi cross function liaison
• Oversight of the feedback loop ensuring that Anti Money Laundering (AML) programs are briefed on emerging trends and threats
• Where required work with other investigative functions in a collaborative way to provide a robust, highly effective response to an identified risk
• Undertake AML investigations as required by Countries within the region, and provide support and guidance to less experienced investigators.
• Be flexible in undertaking other AML related investigative work as required. Namely training, addressing procedural changes and presenting the role of AMLi to relevant stakeholders.
• Provide oversight and coordination of material cross-border cases according to a scope of work agreed with the Head - AML and the Global Head of AML Investigations.
• Support the Senior Regional Managers in building out a sustainable centre of excellence European HSBC Universal Banking System (HUB) AMli function to ensure that investigative product is consistent and produced to global standards.
• Where appropriate review investigation reports, including root cause analysis and agreed recommendations for change with relevant risk type owners. Ensure a coordinated, all-informed response to the identified risk.
• Manage a framework to retrieve and comprehensively analyse relevant information which may include but not limited to, some or all of the following: Customer Due Diligence (CDD) records, transaction records, Relationship Manager (RM) correspondence files, e-mail, SAR's and pre order enquiries.
• Cue and manage appropriate internal stakeholders including, Legal, CDD Advisory, Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), GIIG, Financial Crimes Investigation (FCI), Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Operations, System and control analytics (SCA), Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Affairs, Technology and Operations and the Line of business (LoBs).
• Brief internal and external stakeholders including regulatory bodies and law enforcement.
• Represent AML Investigation on Working Groups led by other HSBC Groups, including Data Privacy, and IRIS Reportable Events Enhancement projects.
• Manage regional AML investigators in line with HSBC policies and procedures, endearing a collective team spirit within the team and ensuring growth and development opportunities for direct reports.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Provide support and guidance to AML investigators across the region ensuring they are meeting and delivering consistently to the required standard
• Provide support and high quality advice to colleagues within the lines of business.
• Build relationships with other AMLi teams across the Group and ensure that cases which impact other countries, regions are escalated appropriately.
• Maintain an awareness of external financial crime issues which may impact the Bank.
• Ensure that all cases managed on the group wide case management system.
• Produce effective and robust Management Information (MI)
• Provide clear guidance and recommendations to business lines, regarding cases and/or any issues risk identified during the course of investigations undertaken by direct reports.
• Work effectively with other FCC teams, both at a regional and global level, to share information about key cases and trends.
• Ensure that the Regional Head of AML Investigations is advised of all material AML issues.
• Work effectively with industry peers and where appropriate law enforcement and other investigative agencies on AML matters.
• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with the FIU and FCI and ensure that all cases that meet pre-defined criteria are referred to the appropriate team.
• Work effectively with other members of the AML Investigations team to ensure that all AML Investigations are conducted professionally.
• Foster positive and professional working relationships within FCC and other stakeholders.
• Take responsibility for personal development by identifying appropriate learning and training opportunities.
• Escalate issues to senior management through the appropriate escalation route, which will include IRIS and ORION. Manage, document and track any dispensation requests
• Maintain and observe all HSBC control standards and implement and observe the Group Compliance Policy, including the timely implementation of recommendations made by internal/external auditors and external regulators.
• Ensure all mandatory training and learning is completed.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Relevant product knowledge
• Experience working in relevant environments, i.e. Direct involvement in an Investigations Role in Financial Crime
• Experience working in relevant market, context, i.e. Advanced investigative skills from law enforcement, regulatory, forensic accountancy or legal disputes experience
• Past working experience in a relevant role, i.e. Financial Crime or Law Enforcement
• Set and achieved challenging short, medium and long term goals which exceeded the standards in their field
• A flexible and adaptable management style with experience of developing yourself and others
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences
• Planned projects and activities systematically in line with business priorities, using a variety of analysis and problem solving techniques
• A comprehensive understanding of risk management and proven experience of ensuring own, others' compliance with relevant regulatory processes

The base location for this role is Edinburgh

Within HSBC certain roles are designated as Enhanced Vetting Roles. For these roles, all internal and external applicants are required (subject to local laws), to pass satisfactorily a series of additional checks both as part of the application process and, if successfully recruited into the Enhanced Vetting role, on an on-going basis. The Group reserves its position with regard to any steps which it may take in relation to any material adverse findings which arise either when the checks are first carried out as part of this recruitment exercise, and/or if relevant, on an on-going basis.

This role has been designated as a Enhanced Vetting Role.

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