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As an HSBC employee Channel Islands and Isle of Man (CIIOM) you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all employees, enhanced parental and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a non-contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
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We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Head of Financial Crime Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
The Head of Financial Crime (FC) CIIOM is responsible for directing the effective identification, assessment, management, monitoring and mitigation of financial crime risk across the Channel Islands and Isle of Man (CIIOM).
The role holder will act in a regulated capacity, and be accountable to the regulator as the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) in Jersey for HSBC Bank plc Jersey Branch and HSBC Trustees Channel Islands Limits (HTCI), and provide oversight of the MLROs in Guernsey and the Isle of Man. The role is a key risk management role with a broad remit and responsibilities.
In this role, you will:
• Be the Jersey Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO), supporting the 1LoD(First line of defence) in meeting our regulatory obligations and risk appetite in financial crime.
• Provide subject matter expertise for the purpose of setting policy, providing guidance and advising the businesses and functions, which might involve greater operational exposure to high risk activities in particular Bribery & Corruption, Money Laundering, Sanctions, Export Controls, Proliferation and Terror Finance, Fraud, and Tax Evasion.
• Operate within a Hub-to-Country model to drive continuous improvement of the function, ensuring the quality and consistency of investigations to generate consistently high-quality suspicious activity reports (SARs).
• Own and operate controls in respect of SAR reporting.
• Ensure that external regulatory reporting is performed effectively and on a timely basis for all investigations.
• Be the primary contact with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Jersey Law Officers Department, law enforcement, security, and regulatory agencies, including, where required, the Jersey Financial Services Commission, in relation to any external SAR reporting.
• Act as the trusted advisor and exercise risk steward challenge to 1LoD and CIIOM Executive Committee (Exco) on all financial crime risks and related reputational issues involving CIIOM.
• Ensure maintenance of an effective control framework and compliance with all relevant external laws & regulations, internal codes and policies and good market practices.
• To represent the financial crime risk agenda up in levels of governance, including sitting as a member of the CIIOM ExCo and HSBC Trustee CI Board. Attend the relevant committees (where required) to report on progress and issues in relation to the operational effectiveness of HSBC’s policies, processes, systems and controls in countering financial crime.
• Drive the implementation of policy, issue management, fostering a compliance culture and optimizing relations with risk owners and control owners.
• Maintain effective relationships with global, regional, and local stakeholders to develop a strong working relationship.
• Directly influence the operational effectiveness of the team.
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:
• Extensive experience and knowledge of financial crime risk.
• Strong leadership experience, ideally within Compliance.
• Experience of managing internal and external stakeholders within a complex matrix environment
• Experience as a regulator or significant experience of liaising with regulator(s)
• Experience working across different countries and cultures.
• Knowledge of the Group’s Risk Governance, Risk Management Framework and Financial & Non-Financial Risk Policies and Issues.
