Role purpose

Responsible for the response to material Investigations involving Financial Crime (FC), including Fraud, Money Laundering (including Counter Terrorist Financing, Proliferation Finance, Human Trafficking), Sanctions and Anti-Bribery and Corruption.

The appointee will:

Ensure consistent processes are implemented to rapidly identify and escalate the highest risk Financial Crime cases for senior management awareness and if required action. Cases escalated in this manner are reviewed by senior management and adequate resources are allocated to them;Ensure key stakeholders internally (local and global) and externally are engaged;Leverage resource from specialist teams as required and as appropriate;Verbally or in writing brief internal and external stakeholders, including senior management, the monitor, audit and assurance, global stakeholders, regulators and law enforcement;Leverage risk and operational metrics to identify operational issues and direct remedial activity. Report to senior management on key indicators including; cases accepted, in progress and concluded, with summary outcomes and noted trends; andLeverage and direct the technology strategy to the optimal benefit of FC and the Group.

Main activities

To be aligned to the Group policy and FIM’s in relation to Fraud and Major Investigations, both internal and external.Liaise with FC policy teams to ensure FC policy remains aligned and with all other Investigations teams in the Bank to ensure that policy remains cohesive.Create, manage and motivate a major investigations team to scope, conduct and document Investigations to an appropriate globally consistent standard.Ensure Major Investigations integrates with operations teams and other internal investigative bodies within HSBC to ensure that appropriate cases are passed to Major Investigations at the earliest opportunity.Work with other investigative functions within HSBC (locally and globally) to ensure investigative resource / techniques and intelligence is consistent throughout the bank.Align with support functions to ensure that Investigative support functions.Continually liaise with peer Investigative groups as well as law enforcement globally to ensure the response to Investigations remains best in class.From thorough Investigations, identify root causes and ensure these are reported to Lines of Business for remediation