Sanctions Advisor London, England
Job description
Europe Sanctions Advisor - Advisory – Financial Crime
Are you 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.
Financial Crime Risk (FCR) aligns current activities within Global Risk and helps to build these into a more integrated framework to conduct Customer Due Diligence which enables HSBC to manage FCR more effectively. It builds stronger controls to improve the way Financial Crime Risks are managed in order to spot gaps as well as trends so that the team can take action. It proactively gathers and analyses financial intelligence in a smart way so that suspicious transactions, activities or connections can be identified, and we can adequately protect our customers from the threat of 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.
We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Europe Sanctions Manager – Advisory.
In this role you will:
- Advise the business on a broad range of sanctions issues including client sanctions issues including client sanctions exposure (through HSBC’s CDD process), permissibility of transactions, HSBC’s sanctions policy and industry-specific issues;
- Support regulatory reporting for the UK non-ring-fenced bank (NRFB) with regards to sanctions reporting, including management of a complex tracker recording such engagement;
- Support the wider advisory team with SME knowledge on Sanctions and advisory matters including client due diligence and transaction referrals and helping to track these cases;
- Be an SME on sanctions risk management and compliance with sanctions regimes imposed by the UK, European Union (EU), United Nations (UN), HKMA and USA, and HSBC Group sanctions policy;
- Analyse information, identify and track issues, and determine/address themes arising from regulators and the Compliance exception reporting processes;
- Identify and ensure remedial action is taken from relevant findings including policy changes and LoB training within UK NRFB and the Europe Region.
The ideal candidate for will have:
- Understanding of UK/EU/UN/US sanctions.
- Experience advising a business regarding financial crime risks;
- Good understanding of business activities for a large global banking group with diverse operations from retail banking, wealth management, commercial banking, global banking, investments, transaction services, asset management, private banking and insurance;
- Proven advisory skills, together with the ability to communicate/articulate advice with sound reasoning;
- Proven track record to clearly articulate business and regulatory implications of analysis and findings both to Compliance Colleagues and to the business.
This is a hybrid-based role. You will be based 2 days in the office and 3 at home.
HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme, and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please contact our Recruitment Helpdesk:
Email: [email protected]
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.
