Senior Manager Financial Crime, CIB Digital Assets and Currencies

HSBC Group; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services leader is seeking an experienced Senior Manager in Financial Crime, specializing in Digital Assets and Currencies. The role entails providing financial crime risk stewardship, advising on compliance, and ensuring effective management of FC risks. The ideal candidate will possess extensive knowledge of regulatory frameworks, strong leadership skills, and proven experience in the financial services industry. This position supports a hybrid working model based in London, emphasizing a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive understanding of regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements in financial services.
• Extensive knowledge of financial crime risk frameworks and execution.
• Proven experience in a relevant role covering AML, Sanctions, and Fraud.
• Strong leadership skills to motivate and develop high performing teams.
• Ability to effectively communicate and influence across different seniority levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and guidance on business activities involving Digital Assets and Currencies.
• Act as a subject matter expert for financial crime risk policies.
• Maintain an effective control framework and ensure compliance.
• Represent the financial crime risk agenda in governance forums.
• Support policy implementation and foster a compliance culture.

Skills

Regulatory frameworks understanding

Financial crime risk management advisory

Leadership skills

Relationship building

Communication and influencing

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager in Financial Crime (FC), CIB Digital Assets & Currencies. You would be responsible for providing financial crime risk stewardship across customers, products and geographies related to Digital Assets and Currencies. The Financial Crime (FC) Function acts as the Second Line of Defense (LOD), comprising Risk Stewards independent of the Groups commercial risk-taking activities (First LOD or FLOD). The FC Function implements critical controls using intelligence, analytics, technology, detection, and investigation. Risk Stewards review and challenge FLOD activities to ensure effective management of FC risks, including fraud, money laundering, bribery, sanctions violations, terrorist financing, proliferation financing, export control violations, and tax evasion. The FC Function adheres to HSBC Groups Risk Management Framework (RMF). As a Risk Steward you are responsible for reviewing and challenging all the activities of the first line of defence (FLOD) to ensure that, as Risk Owners, they effectively manage the FC risk inherent in, or arising from, the conduct of their activities and for which they are responsible.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and guidance regarding business activities involving Digital Assets and Currencies.
• Act as a subject matter expert to support setting policy, providing guidance and advising the businesses and functions on financial crime risk involving Digital Assets and Currencies, and support the articulation of Digital Assets and Currencies financial crime risk appetite and policies.
• Maintain an effective control framework and compliance with all relevant external laws & regulations, internal codes and policies and good market practices.
• Represent the financial crime risk agenda through relevant governance forums, including the Corporate and Institutional Banking Financial Crime ExCo, and as an attendee at the relevant forums to report on progress and issues in relation to the operational effectiveness of HSBC's policies, processes, systems and controls in countering financial crime.
• Support the implementation of policy, issue management, fostering a compliance culture and optimizing relations with risk owners and control owners.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive understanding of regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements in financial services, with a background in financial crime risk management advisory.
• Extensive knowledge of financial crime risk frameworks and execution, with expertise in Digital Assets & Currencies.
• Proven experience in a relevant role within the financial services industry covering AML, Sanctions, ABC, Fraud, Tax Evasion, Transaction Monitoring, Client/Payment Screening.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and develop high performing teams.
• Ability to build relationships by communicating and influencing effectively across different levels of seniority.

The base location for this role is London with a hybrid working pattern.

If you are looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC, and discover how valued you'll be. HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations 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 helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions. 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 - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.