Investigator - External Investigative Reporting

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realize their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of **Investigator - External Investigative Reporting**

**Principal responsibilities**:

- Responsible for conducting effective and timely investigation into assigned cases in accordance with agreed standard reporting requirements and service level agreements. These cases will include:

- Anomalous activity reports from various parts of the bank as well as other HSBC entities as applicable, including other business lines and functions.
- Investigating and reporting against Production Orders
- Escalated cases from Transaction Monitoring systems
- On receipt of a referral, conduct a review, in line with the instructions, in order to identify any probable financial crime related issues, or mitigation of any financial crime risks.
- Responsible for writing a high quality investigative narrative (Investigation Report) and to record the case history, with supporting findings, in a approved case management system.
- At any time during an Investigation, at the first reliable indication of financial crime risk, the case should be escalated to the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) for consideration of reporting.
- At the end of each investigation, post review recommendations should be made which may include referral to the MLRO as to whether a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) should be filed or not. In consultation with the Manager Investigative Reporting, escalate investigations to appropriate FC functions for co-ordination and further review as required (Sanctions, ABC etc).
- Ensure suspicious activity is reported to the appropriate authorities in a timely manner and in accordance with the applicable SLA’s
- Ensure that decisions to report to the authorities, or not, can be justified by documenting high quality, rationale, supported by investigative work and recorded findings.

Requirements
- Universal banking experience across Retail, Commercial and Banking and Markets
- Money Laundering investigations experience including understanding transaction monitoring scenarios
- Familiarity and experience with transaction monitoring and associated systems and case management systems (Universal Case Management (UCM))
- Experience with banking core customer data management systems (i.e. HSBC Universal Banking (HUB) system)
- Experience of identifying activity indicative of Money Laundering (ML) or Terrorist Financing (TF) risk
- Experience in undertaking investigations/analysis into customer activity with the ability to draw inferences from noted behavior, including transactional profile, against expectation established from CDD data
- Experience in writing reports to identify ML/TF risk and/or SAR reporting
- Proven high quality spoken and written communication skills with the ability to draft reports and communicate 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 organization
- Prior regulatory or law enforcement investigations experience is advantageous
- ACAMS or International Compliance Association (ICA) certificate/diploma, or equivalent qualifications

**Issued by HSBC Electronic Data Processing (India) Private LTD