Senior Investigator, Major Investigations

at  HSBC

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If you’re looking for a career that will unlock new opportunities, join HSBC and experience the possibilities. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.
Our Risk and Compliance function has a critical role to play in supporting, challenging, and advising across all areas of the business through establishing policy, monitoring profiles, and identifying and managing forward-looking risk and compliance. We focus on creating an environment that encourages our people to speak up and do the right thing, as well as protecting our customers, the organisation, and the integrity of the financial markets in which we operate. Already an industry-leader in many respects, we want to continue setting standards and evolving to respond to strategic changes.
As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
Financial Crime Investigations (FCI) identifies, analyses, and investigates financial crime risk to support informed decision making and effective information sharing internally and externally. Operating a series of first line of defence controls and driving their coordinated performance, it supports FCC, RC, and the business, proactively keeping on top of threats and driving the use of cutting-edge technology and analytics to detect and mitigate financial crime risk.
FCI focuses on the specific financial crime threats the firm 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 harms associated with financial crime. FCI harnesses intelligence, analytics, technology, investigation, information sharing, and public-private partnership to achieve this end, always seeking the most effective and efficient means.
We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Senior Investigator, Major Investigations.
The role of Senior Investigator, Major Investigations, is positioned in one of HBUK FCI’s functions. Major Investigations is responsible for conducting financial crime investigations with a Case Rating 3 across all financial crime types. This position will be directly responsible for conducting investigations in line with the Group Financial Crime Investigations Instructions across all financial crime types.
The role holder will work with other Compliance functions such as Risk Stewardship teams, Financial Crime Analysis, Applied Analytics, Legal, HR, Employee Relations, Vetting, Security, GIRE and Audit where necessary on specific investigations.

Experience and/or skills in the following areas would also be advantageous:

• Experience working with law enforcement agencies like the Joint Money Laundry Intelligence Task Force (JMLIT) or similar.
• Knowledge and practical experience with the proceeds of Crime Ac

• Operate within FCI investigative programs related to fraud, anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism, sanctions, anti-bribery, and corruption.
• Take part in complex, proactive, intelligence-driven investigations, leveraging resources from across the group to support investigations involving multiple geographies or financial crime typologies.
• Identify and escalate the most significant and sensitive investigations to regional and group senior management, and communicates this information in the form of succinct, professional written products and oral briefings.
• Develop the ability to provide subject matter expertise to other parts of FCI, including but not limited to innovations in analysis and identification of typologies.
• Use a variety of internal and external systems/sources for routine analysis.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• Background in financial crime within a regulatory, investigative, or financial intelligence agency.
• Detailed experience in mitigating the harms associated with the threat of financial crime at a strategic level.
• An excellent understanding of UK regulations as well as their role in risk management to the financial system.
• Skilled in managing processes to drive efficiency and ensure adherence to best practices.
• Experience in identifying and managing external fraud and money laundering risks.

Experience and/or skills in the following areas would also be advantageous:

• Experience working with law enforcement agencies like the Joint Money Laundry Intelligence Task Force (JMLIT) or similar.
• Knowledge and practical experience with the proceeds of Crime Act

The base location for this role is Birmingham with a requirement to be in the office at least three times per week.