Senior Manager, Business Financial Crime Risk (Corporate and Institutional Banking)

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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.

Your role as Senior Manager - Business Financial Crime Risk (BFCR) for our Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) business in Australia and New Zealand, will play a pivotal role in ensuring the effective management of financial crime risk.  You will lead, facilitate and manage activities to drive and implement a consistent and effective financial crime risk management framework. 

The role is critical in the context of increased focus both internally and externally on effectively identifying, measuring, evaluating, controlling and managing financial crime risks. In doing so you will be responsible for rolling out policy and procedures amid ongoing legislative change, embedding these in the business and instilling a risk culture.

As a senior member of the team, you will interact regularly with regional stakeholders, informally manage the BFCR team’s day to day workflow and represent the business in governance forums with executive leaders. 

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Identification, mitigation and addressing of financial crime risks within CIB Australia and New Zealand’s portfolio.
• Acting as subject matter expert across each aspect of Financial Crime Risk, providing daily operational support to business ensuring process and execution effectiveness.
• Ensuring ongoing reporting and timely escalation where procedures are not performing effectively.
• Ensuring effectiveness of CIB’s Financial Crime Risk procedures through robust deployment, ongoing management and change control coupled with positive customer and employee experience.
• Driving regulatory change projects using reporting metrics to identify areas for simplification, improvement and streamlining.
• Providing advice and direction to executive management on financial crime investigations or intelligence referrals as a trusted advisor.
• Maintaining close working relationships with internal stakeholders in CIB business, products, and risk functions.
• Embedding a robust communications strategy, supporting the awareness of AML, Sanctions, Anti Bribery & Corruption and Fraud risks/policies complementing development of a compliance culture throughout CIB Australia and New Zealand.
• Supporting 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 managing the day-to-day workflow of the BFCR team and represent the business in governance forums with executive leaders.

To be successful in this role you will require:

• 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, 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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