Avp, Investigative Reporting, Europe, Gsc’s

**Business: Financial Crime Investigations - Investigative Reporting**

**Role Title: AVP, Investigative Reporting**

**Global Career Band: 5**

**Location **_(Country / City )_**: Hyderabad**

**Why join us?**

Financial Crime Investigations (FCI) is responsible for the mitigation of financial crime threats the firm faces now and may in the future, pioneering the techniques and technology that protect our business, our customers, and the many communities in which we operate from the harms associated with financial crime. FCI, working with partners across the Bank, harnesses intelligence, analytics, technology, investigation, information sharing, and public-private partnership to achieve this end, always seeking the most effective and efficient means. FCI, as part of one Compliance, supports building the case for a more efficient and effective regulatory approach by defining a potential new regulatory landscape based on practical, tested innovation and serving as a thought leader in the ongoing public debate on the future of regulatory compliance.

**Opportunity**:
The role-holder will be responsible for managing a team of Financial Crime Investigators tasked with conducting Investigations concerning accounts/transactions where potential financial crime risk has been identified pertaining to HBEU (HSBC Europe) customers, specifically Channel Islands/Isle of Man (CIIOM). Sources of Investigative referrals stem from FC-UARs, Transaction Monitoring (including, Dynamic Risk Assessment - DRA), OWS (GEWL True Matches), escalations from Fraud Operations and cross-border referrals from other Investigative functions. Where necessary, the team will be required to refer and/or escalate Investigative outcomes to the local onshore MLRO function in accordance with the Investigative Reporting Procedures and localised regulatory requirements (defined by the respective market) for regulatory decisions and filing; with considerations made in respect to whether any Referrals for Action may be required.

The role-holder will be required to direct the teams to ensure processes are implemented and executed in accordance with Group-defined procedures and any European regional requirements; equally, ensure that quality decisions and written products are produced in a timely manner, adhering to the Group/European regional SLAs.

Manage stakeholder relationships with the onshore CIIOM MLRO and Investigations team to provide detailed insight into case ageing, quality outcomes, escalation of any issues and management of any feedback. The GCB 5 AVP Investigative Reporting, Europe role holder will have a dual-reporting line, with Entity Management within the Offshore Financial Crime Investigations function in India and Functional Management within the Regional Investigations Centre of Excellence**_ _**within Europe, established within Edinburgh, UK.

**What you’ll do**:
Effective and timely investigation into assigned cases in accordance with agreed Investigative Reporting requirements and Service Level Agreements. These cases may include:

- Unusual Activity Reports from colleagues in our overseas IR teams which will need to be checked that decision making is correct and that the Investigation Reports attached are in line with Global IR guidelines.
- Unusual activity reports from various parts of the bank as well as other HSBC entities as applicable, including other business lines and functions;
- escalated cases from transaction monitoring systems (including a new automated monitoring solution - Dynamic Risk Assessment - DRA);
- Escalated cases identified by true matches to screening lists escalated from Name Screening teams;
- Cross-border referrals; and
- Escalated cases from Fraud Operations.
- Ensure Investigators perform, in line with the instructions and within local CIIOM regulatory/Policy requirements, in order to identify any probable financial crime related issues, or mitigation of any financial crime risks.
- Ensure through Manager Review that high quality investigative narrative (Investigation Reports) are prepared and the case file is populated with appropriate documentation.
- Ensure that the correct review recommendations are made as appropriate, which may include referral to the CIIOM MLRO (or delegate) as to whether a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) should be filed or not or escalation to appropriate other teams for co-ordination and further review as required (Major Investigations, etc).
- Ensure where appropriate, interaction with relevant stakeholders, including, Triage, Complex and Major Investigations, and Customer Selection Exit Management (CSEM) (CSEM) Secretariat to manage financial crime risk is done in accordance with procedures.
- Provide information on completed Investigations to Senior Management and other internal stakeholders for risk management, where appropriate.
- Deliver to team, post receipt from Accredited Trainers, training modules under the Continuous Training Programme, for embedding.
- Lead