FinCrime SME
- London, (GBR)
- £500 - £513 Per Day
- 5 Months
- Start date: ASAP
- Ref: tapfin-hsbc-37750
- financial crime compliance
- sme
- risk management
- fraud prevention
- regulatory obligations
- sanctions
- sar
- regulatory
- banking
- ensure compliance
Financial Crime SME
£513.00 per day
London / Hybrid
Contract until Dec 2024
HINV (HSBC Innovation Banking) are currently searching for a Financial Crime SME to join their team in Finsbury Square, London. If successful within this position, you will report to a Senior Manager within the Financial Crime Risk & Controls (FCRC) Team.
Responsibilities:
• Reviewing client relationships that meet HSBC’s high risk business categories and geographies and performing reviews of existing clients and prospects.
• Serving as an SME for Relationship Teams to aid in identification of prospects & existing clients that may have increased AML, ABC or sanctions risk due to business model or geographic location.
• Reviewing and responding to financial crime related queries from the FLOD including reputational risk considerations.
• Assist clients/prospects to ensure compliance with HSBC’s high risk and sanctions requirements including internal scheduled and triggered refresh review escalations regarding client matters.
• Undertaking financial crime risk assessment including business and country of interest reviews and assessment of Actionable Intelligence alerts
• Escalation of issues in a timely manner for review and resolution in relation to financial crime including knowledge of SAR escalation.
• Supporting change in the right way and recommending enhancements to processes and procedures to ensure the firm remains compliant whilst aligning to a risk-based approach.
• Maintaining current industry awareness and demonstrating awareness and competence in relation to regulatory obligations.
• Providing guidance and direction to FLOD colleagues to ensure they remain protected from financial crime risks and embedding an effective financial crime risk culture.
• Assisting clients/prospects to ensure compliance with HSBC financial crime risk assessment requirements.
• Assisting with internal ongoing due diligence review escalations regarding client matters and supporting the preparation of papers to Reputational Risk and Client Selection Committees where required
• Working closely with UKFC to seek advice on complex global financial crime matters and serving as the FLOD escalation point of contact for financial crimes activity for HSBC.
Skills / Experience Required:
• Good knowledge of financial crime legislation including Anti-Money Laundering, Counter Terrorist Financing and Sanctions
• Solid experience related to financial crime compliance risk management processes.
• Good working knowledge of financial crime and/or fraud prevention within the UK regulatory environment
• Confident gathering reports and processing escalations where required.
• Good judgement, analytical, research, organisational and project management skills
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Office and ability to learn new internal systems quickly.
• Working knowledge of Crypto would be a strong advantage
• Working knowledge of Payment Regulations would be a strong advantage
If you think you are up for the task and feel you meet the above criteria or interested to hear more information, please contact me on Amy.walker@tapfin.com
Please note, in the event of a high volume of applications for this role, we will not be able to respond to each individual applicant. Unfortunately, if you have not been contacted within 7 days then we will not be progressing with your application. Thank you for your understanding
