Senior Manager, Business Financial Crime Risk (Corporate & Institutional Banking)
Location: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Employment type: Full-time
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
About the Role
You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the effective management of financial crime risk within HSBC's Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) business in Australia and New Zealand. You will lead, facilitate and manage activities to drive and implement a consistent and effective financial crime risk management framework.
Key Responsibilities
Identification, mitigation and addressing of financial crime risks within CIB Australia and New Zealand's portfolio.
Act as subject matter expert across each aspect of Financial Crime Risk, providing daily operational support to the business ensuring process and execution effectiveness.
Ensure ongoing reporting and timely escalation where procedures are not performing effectively.
Ensure effectiveness of CIB's Financial Crime Risk procedures through robust deployment, ongoing management and change control, coupled with a positive customer and employee experience.
Drive regulatory change projects using reporting metrics to identify areas for simplification, improvement and streamlining.
Provide advice and direction to executive management on financial crime investigations or intelligence referrals as a trusted advisor.
Maintain close working relationships with internal stakeholders in CIB business, products, and risk functions.
Embed a robust communications strategy, supporting awareness of AML, Sanctions, Anti Bribery & Corruption and Fraud risks/policies, complementing the development of a compliance culture throughout CIB Australia and New Zealand.
Support Head of CIB Business Risk in delivering a culture and engagement plan to embed a proactive FCR management culture within CIB Australia and New Zealand.
Informally manage the day-to-day workflow of the BFCR team and represent the business in governance forums with executive leaders.
Required Qualifications
Good understanding of risk management and controls around financial crime, preferably gained through experience in risk related roles in a banking environment.
A sound knowledge of corporate & institutional banking, including credit & lending, trade & payment products, services and systems and processes.
Sound knowledge of banking and financial crime regulatory requirements.
Experience managing change or continuous improvement projects.
Experience working with senior management, with the ability to influence, balancing risk and commerciality.
Outstanding communication skills with a proven ability to communicate complex concepts effectively and confidently in simple language at all levels.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders and team members, distributed across functions and locations.
Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to coordinate workloads.
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 and hold ourselves accountable to get things done. HSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are appreciated and respected and where opinions count. Applications from First Nations peoples are encouraged.
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