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Job Duties
- Responsible for conducting effective, timely investigations into assigned cases in accordance with agreed standard reporting requirements and turn-around times. Cases will include:
- Transaction monitoring cases from FCC Operations;
- Unusual Activity Reports (UARs) from various HSBC business units - LoB's, FIU, FCI, AB&C, Global Sanctions, RC and other regional HUB requests,
- investigating and reporting Production Orders,
- Customer screening alerts suggesting ML or TF risk.
- Responsible for editing / writing a high quality investigative narrative and thereafter recording it, with the case history, in a digital case file
- At the end of each investigation a comprehensive recommendation is to be made to the EIR Investigations QC Reviewer as to whether a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) should be filed
- Responsible for identifying possible violations of law or regulation according to documented red flags or variations vis a vis expected business transactions documented in CDD
- Responsible for referring cross border or cross LoB investigations to Global or Regional EIR Investigations for co-ordination where appropriate.
Requirements
- Money Laundering investigations experience, ideally including transaction monitoring
- Experience of identifying activity
- 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;
- 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
- ACAMS or ICA ML/FCC qualifications preferred
- Universal banking experience an advantage