Assistant Manager, Investigative Reporting

HSBC Australia

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As an HSBC employee in Australia, you’ll have access to tailored professional development opportunities, competitive pay, an embedded flexible working culture and a range of employee benefits. These include market-leading subsidised private health cover, enhanced parental pay and support when returning to work, subsidised banking products and services, bonus leave days and wellness programmes including discounted gym memberships.

This role is critical in the fight against financial crime, providing the regulator with intelligence, which may lead to the disruption of criminal activities, contributing to the protection of the bank and the safety of our community.

This is a unique opportunity for someone to join an international bank and be exposed to a range of financial crime risk types, collaborating across regions and countries, HSBC has a leading Compliance function. 

This is a hybrid role, which will encompass some work from home as well as some work from our Barangaroo office, in the role of External Investigating Reporting (EIR) – Assistant Manager.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Support the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Investigation Manager in the oversight and coordination of the investigation of cases according to a scope of work agreed with the Country Head.
• Conduct day-to-day high priority local AML Investigations including AUSTRAC/Law enforcement production orders, Investigation Exchange, and ad hoc requests of Senior EIR Manager.  
• Draft, review and issue investigation reports, including root cause analysis and agreed recommendations for change with relevant risk type owners.  Responsible for ensuring Level 2 Case analysis is complete and compliant.
• Escalate any potentially significant issues found during the course of an investigation to relevant internal stakeholders, including the local Major Investigations, Sanctions, CSEM etc.
• Conducting risk analysis based on the AML MI data provided by Lines of Business (LoB’s) and relevant stakeholders to mitigate identified risks, track recommendations and agreed actions, including client exits, to ensure completion.
• Undertake local ad hoc projects, reviews and monitoring as requested by the Senior EIR Manager.
• Coordinate and facilitate information exchange, team work and efficiency as part of the wider Financial Crime Compliance (CC) program.
• Support and participate in key initiatives from the country/region
• Perform Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) duties including determining requirement to lodge Suspicious Matter Reports (SMR) after reviewing an investigation
• Lodgement of SMRs within the regulatory timeframe    
• Conduct regular training and coaching within the team to improve overall team performance

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Experience in Financial Crime Compliance, undertaking investigations/ analysis on customer activity with the ability to draw inferences from the information.
• Experience in transactional analysis, providing the ability to recognise unusual financial activities.
• Experience in a banking or financial services organisation desirable.
• Experience and highly proficient in decisioning, writing and lodging SMRs
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Strong verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the capability to share information in a clear concise manner.
• A relevant Investigations, Financial Crime or AML tertiary qualification would be an advantage, but not essential.
• Experience with data or high level of competence with excel would be an advantage, but not essential.

Candidates for this role will need to demonstrate they hold Australian or New Zealand PR/Citizenship or full working rights.

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Applications from First Nations peoples are encouraged.

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