Assistant Vice President, Anti Money Laundering, Investigations - Financial Crime Compliance

Job description

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Financial Crime Compliance aligns current activities within Global Risk and helps to build these into a more integrated framework to conduct Customer Due Diligence which enables HSBC to manage financial crime risk more effectively. It builds stronger controls to improve the way Financial Crime Compliance risks are managed in order to spot gaps as well as trends so that the team can take action. It proactively gathers and analyses financial intelligence in a smart way so that suspicious transactions, activities or connections can be identified and we can adequately protect our customers from the threat of financial crime.

We are currently seeking a high caliber professional to join our team as Assistant Vice President, Anti Money Laundering, Investigations .

Principal responsibilities
· Responsible for conducting the effective and timely investigation into local assigned cases in accordance with agreed standard reporting requirements and service levels.
· Conduct day to day operations of local Anti Money Laundering Investigations, including searches.
· Responsible for writing a high quality investigative narrative and recording the case history in a digital case file.
· Responsible for ensuring that at the conclusion of each investigation, a comprehensive recommendation is to be made to the Anti Money Laundering Investigations Quality Control Reviewer as to whether a Suspicious Activity Report should be filed or not.
· Responsible for identifying possible violations of law or regulation
· Responsible for escalating investigations to the all stakeholders through proper channels.
· Responsible for posting information to the Reportable Events database.
· Responsible for coordination, liaison and tracking of the Investigations Exchange Program for the Country Anti Money Laundering team.
· Responsible for notifying local Lines of Business of any reportable events posted into system for Customers of the Lines of Business.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Requirements
·  Experience in Financial Crime Compliance or equivalent environment
·  Relevant work experience which allows role holder to have the ability to recognize suspicious financial activities
·  Experience in undertaking investigations or analysis to customer activity with the ability to draw inferences from the information
·  Experience in compilation of reports or Suspicious Activity Report reporting experience
·  Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
·  Good communicator with strong inter personal skills.
·  Experience of sharing information in a clear concise manner.
The chosen candidate for this role will be required to undergo enhanced vetting. Subject to local laws, this will require the individual to satisfactorily pass a series of additional checks as part of the recruitment process and on an ongoing basis, if appointed to the role. HSBC 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 originally completed, and/or if relevant, on an ongoing basis. For more information about the enhanced vetting for this role please contact the recruiter for this role.

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