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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.
Financial Crime (FC) focuses on specific Financial Crime threats which HSBC 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 harm associated with Financial Crime.
The role holder is required to be a member of the Regional Investigations team of FC, in designing and where appropriate, deploying policies, procedures and strategies that will minimise the risk of Financial Crime within or against HSBC.
This role has 1 indirect report.
Your main responsibilities will include:
- Support the Country/Regional Head Investigations ensuring all regulatory, management and high level reports, presentations and documents are accurate, properly scoped and completed within established time frames.
- Review of serious or complex operational or control issues, determine and present the optimal options for resolution.
- Supports the Regional Head of 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.
- Undertake Investigations within a programmatic capability to conduct complex and major, proactive, intelligence-driven investigations.
- Communicates information on the most significant and sensitive investigations and related mitigating actions 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.
- Effective interactions with country 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.
- Identify and escalate the most significant and sensitive investigations to ensure appropriate prioritization, resourcing, and investigative strategy.
- Fosters good relationships with stakeholder both internally and externally, ensuring communication to key stakeholders of the ongoing status of investigations and the related mitigating actions.
- Operates 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.
- Provide subject matter expertise, 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.
Requirements
To be successful in this diverse and complex role, you will need:
- Experience with organizational frameworks and strategies, preferably within a Financial Crime or Intelligence environment.
- Awareness of regulatory and in-house operating environment and potential impact on function.
- A legal or formal accountancy qualification or professional background in relevant risk or audit discipline.
- Good understanding of the principles of investigations.
- Proven ability of organizational planning, resource mobilization, problem solving, influencing and delivery of practical, cost effective solutions.
- Significant leadership experience and an experienced strategic thinker.
- Demonstrate experience in being able to manage multiple issues and priorities to interpret and solve complex issues, with the ability to make reasoned judgment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with strong stakeholder management abilities.
Preference will be given to candidates who hold Australian PR/Citizenship or New Zealand Citizenship, or who can demonstrate current unrestricted work rights in Australia without limitations.
We value different perspectives, we succeed together, collaborating across boundaries, we take responsibility, holding ourselves accountable to get things done. Through these values, HSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are appreciated and respected and where opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and opportunities to grow in an inclusive environment. Applications from First Nations peoples are encouraged.
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