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Risk Analyst – Financial Crime

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Within Financial Crime Risk Assessment, Financial Crime Analysis (FCA) provides proprietary insight into the most significant financial crime issues facing HSBC and our growth strategy, enabling the Bank to focus on its customers whilst understanding and managing inherent financial crime risks as part of Intelligence-Led Financial Crime Risk Management (ILFRCM). We aspire to be HSBC’s ‘go to’ source of expertise on geopolitical and jurisdictional drivers of financial crime, criminal threats, actors and typologies. Our teams develop deep expertise `on these topics; their product informs, provides meaningful context, and explains the impact of these issues on the Bank and its strategy.

The role of Risk Analyst – Financial Crime focuses on the financial crime threats HSBC faces now and in the future, supporting the delivery and embedding of the Financial Crime Typology Library to help protect our business, our customers, and the many communities in which we operate from the harms associated with financial crime.
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.

In this role, you will:

• Support the Product Owner in delivering and embedding the Typology Library to serve as a standardised, single source of known financial crime typologies. The typologies and risk indicators bring strategic value to a range of HSBC’s threat mitigation efforts, enabling Financial Crime Risk Assessment to articulate both current and emerging financial crime issues in a way which drives improvements directly to our control environment.
• Ongoing review and refinement of existing typologies and risk indicators, including close collaboration with various stakeholders, including FCA, investigations, Risk Stewards and Control Owners.
• Lead on the running and management of governance forums and senior stakeholder engagements, including reviewing quality of submissions, pack preparations, following-up on actions.

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

• Advanced Financial Crime Expertise: Strong command of financial crime themes, such as sanctions evasion or money laundering, or macro themes that impact the financial crime landscape, such as geopolitics or digitisation. Experience in research and critical analysis of information, working with a range of sources to develop actionable insights. While this is not an investigative role, previous experience in financial crime complex investigations or analysis is helpful.
• Strong Written and Verbal Communications Skills: Can write succinctly and coherently for senior audiences and to brief findings verbally. Excellent written skills with demonstrable experience in drafting reports, effectively communicating complex issues in clear and succinct language to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Banking knowledge: Experience in the financial services industry and/or a keen interest in business, banking and current affairs.
• Advanced Degree: Degree holder with outstanding analytical (qualitative and quantitative) and problem-solving skills, preferably with experience applying these at a strategic level in the field of financial crime.

Candidates can be based in any of the business areas – Edinburgh, Birmingham, Sheffield or London. Team meetings to be held in London once per month.

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Telephone: +44 2078328500.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism. This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.”