Head of Financial Crime, CIB Digital Assets & Currencies

HSBC Group; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services provider is seeking a Head of Financial Crime for their CIB Digital Assets & Currencies division. You will lead a global team, addressing complex financial crime challenges. The position demands significant experience in financial crime and compliance within the financial services sector and proven leadership skills. You will drive policy implementations, oversee compliance, and enhance operational effectiveness across teams. This role offers competitive remuneration and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Private healthcare

Enhanced maternity and adoption pay

Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution

Qualifications

• Significant experience in financial crime regulatory or management roles.
• Comprehensive understanding of compliance requirements in financial services.
• Proven strategic leadership and influencing skills.
• Extensive knowledge of financial crime risk frameworks.
• Background in operational risk is highly desirable.
• Experience in creating and leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global team of financial crime risk stewards.
• Provide policy guidance on financial crime risks.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external regulations.
• Represent financial crime risk agenda at governance levels.
• Drive policy implementation and foster a compliance culture.
• Influence operational effectiveness of the team.

Skills

Financial crime expertise

Leadership

Regulatory frameworks understanding

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Team motivation

Job description

Remote: Hybrid Head of Financial Crime, CIB Digital Assets & Currencies – Risk and Compliance. If you're looking for a career that will unlock new opportunities, join HSBC and experience the possibilities. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

Our Risk and Compliance function has a critical role to play in supporting, challenging and advising across all areas of the business through establishing policy, monitoring profiles, and identifying and managing forward‑looking risk and compliance. We focus on creating an environment that encourages our people to speak up and do the right thing, as well as protecting our customers, the organisation and the integrity of the financial markets in which we operate. Already an industry‑leader in many respects, we want to continue setting standards and evolving to respond to strategic changes.

Responsibilities

• Leading a global team of financial crime risk stewards, providing advice on Digital Assets and Currencies.
• Offering subject matter expertise to set policy and guide businesses on financial crime risks, including high‑risk activities such as Bribery & Corruption, Money Laundering, Sanctions, Export Controls, Proliferation and Terror Finance, Fraud, and Tax Evasion.
• Articulating risk appetite and policies for Digital Assets and Currencies.
• Acting as a trusted advisor and challenging FLOD as a risk steward.
• Ensuring compliance with external laws, internal codes, policies and market practices.
• Representing the financial crime risk agenda in governance levels, including participation in the Corporate and Institutional Banking Financial Crime ExCo and relevant committees.
• Driving policy implementation, issue management, fostering a compliance culture, and optimising relations with risk and control owners.
• Maintaining effective relationships with global, regional and local stakeholders.
• Influencing the operational effectiveness of the team.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in financial crime as a regulator, investigator or senior manager within a global firm in the financial services industry.
• Comprehensive understanding of regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements in financial services, with a background in Financial Crime risk management advisory.
• Proven strategic leadership and influencing skills, applicable beyond your direct span of control.
• Extensive knowledge of financial crime risk frameworks and execution, with expertise in Digital Assets & Currencies.
• A background or deep understanding of operational risk is highly desirable.
• Experience in creating, leading and motivating a team.

You'll achieve more when you join HSBC.

Diversity and Inclusion

Opening up a world of opportunity. Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our recruitment processes are accessible to everyone – no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long‑term conditions or neuro‑divergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

Benefits

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK‑based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.