Vp, Investigator, External Investigative Reporting

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Regulatory Compliance ensures adherence to applicable regulations and standards by setting the policies which cover HSBC’s regulatory requirements, and mitigate conduct and reputational risk issues. The team strives to remain ahead of the regulatory change agenda and ensures the business understands the implications and is prepared for change. It monitors how the Global Businesses and Functions manage their responsibilities with regard to complying with the regulations and helps resolve compliance deficiencies.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a **VP, Investigator, External Investigative Reporting.**

**Principal Responsibilities**
- Review cases to agreed procedural standards required and within agreed service levels
- Produce a high quality case file including a comprehensive narrative and recommendation as to whether or not a SAR is required
- Undertake local ad hoc projects, reviews and monitoring as requested by the Country Head of Investigations
- Escalate any potentially significant issues found during the course of an investigation to relevant internal stakeholders
- Deal with enquiries from colleagues from LoB or external enquiries in a professional, responsive manner, giving them appropriate guidance, referring to management where necessary
- Coordinate and facilitate information exchange, team work and efficiency of the Country Head of Investigations as part of the wider Compliance function
- Responsible for escalating to Local Lines of Business Compliance Offices information about Thematic Lines of Business Compliance weaknesses or failures identified during the course of investigation
- Support and participate in key initiatives from the country/region
- Ensure team performance meets the requirements of any relevant service level agreements and at all times, adheres to Group and Regulatory policies
- Generate ideas to improve team efficiency

Requirements

**Requirements**:

- Experience in managing teams, ideally in investigation functions
- Money Laundering investigations experience, ideally including transaction monitoring
- Experience of identifying activity suggesting ML or CTF risk
- Experience in undertaking investigations/analysis into customer activity with the ability to draw inferences from noted behaviour, including transactional profile, against expectation established from CDD data
- Experience in writing reports to identify ML/CTF risk and/or SAR reporting
- Both spoken and written communication skills with the ability to document investigative steps and conclusions effectively, in a clear, concise and professional manner
- Consistently achieve objectives set for them and take action to improve their own performance
- Strong organizational skills
- Collaborative working style with colleagues and broader stakeholders within a cross-border and LoB matrix
- Prior regulatory or law enforcement investigations experience advantageous
- ACAMS or ICA ML/FCC qualifications preferred
- Project Management and Universal banking experience an advantage

To be considered for this role, the relevant rights to work in Singapore is required.

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Issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.