VP Financial Crime Control

HSBC Holdings plc; Gandhinagar; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC India is seeking a Financial Crime Compliance professional to support IWPB in Gift City. The role provides second line of defence oversight, challenging and advisory across Wealth, Transaction Banking and Lending, ensuring alignment with FCRM framework and local requirements.

You will lead governance inputs, escalation of material risks, and maintain robust audit trails while helping protect customers and the bank. Strong communication and stakeholder influence are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong FCC/AML background in banking/financial services.
• Experience across Wealth and/or Transaction Banking and/or Lending.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive issues to closure.

Responsibilities

• Provide FCC oversight and credible challenges to IWPB activities.
• Support local FCC governance including papers, minutes and escalation.
• Promote a strong risk culture and adherence to risk appetite.
• Guide onboarding and KYC reviews, including CDD/EDD triggers.
• Advise on product approvals and control design with risk assessment.
• Oversee sanctions screening risk management and monitoring.
• Support investigations and regulatory reporting processes.

Skills

FCC/AML experience

Banking/financial services

Stakeholder influence

Analytical skills

Written communication

Education

Graduation or higher

ICA/ACAMS

Job description

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Job purpose

Support IWPB in HIBU GIFT City (covering Wealth, Transaction Banking and Lending) by providing second line of defence FCC oversight, challenge and advisory. The role helps ensure the business operates in line with the HSBC Global Financial Crime Risk Management (FCRM) Framework, applicable Group Standards, and local regulatory requirements (including IFSCA expectations, as applicable), while enabling sustainable growth and protecting customers and the bank.

Principal responsibilities

Financial crime governance and oversight (2LoD)

• Provide FCC oversight and credible challenges to IWPB activities, ensuring financial crime risks are identified, assessed, mitigated and reported.
• Support local FCC governance (committees/forums), including agenda inputs, papers, minutes/actions, and timely escalation of material risks, breaches and emerging issues.
• Promote a strong risk culture and consistent application of HSBC risk appetite and customer acceptance standards.
• Work closely with FC Risk Steward in proactive identification of issues and take steps to address them.
• Carry out read across on the audit findings in other markets

Customer risk management (CDD/EDD) – onboarding and lifecycle

• Provide guidance and challenge on customer risk rating, due diligence approach, and EDD triggers for higher-risk customers (e.g., complex ownership, PEPs, high-risk jurisdictions, intermediaries).
• Guide business in reviewing and revising the Operating procedures of onboarding and periodic review.
• Review and opine on higher-risk relationships and exceptions in line with delegated authorities and escalation pathways.
• Drive quality and consistency across onboarding, periodic reviews and event-driven reviews, ensuring clear rationale and robust audit trails.

Product and proposition advisory (Wealth, Transaction Banking, Lending)

• Act as FCC advisory for IWPB products and services, ensuring controls are embedded "by design" across:Wealth: investment flows, portfolio funding/withdrawals, third-party payments, complex structuresTransaction banking: payments, trade-related flows where applicable, channel riskLending: purpose of borrowing, source of repayment, collateral-related risks, misuse typologies
• Support new product approvals, change initiatives, and process re-engineering by assessing inherent risk, control design and residual risk; document FCC requirements and sign-offs as required.

Sanctions and screening risk management

• Provide oversight and challenge of customer and payment screening controls, including escalation of potential matches, control weaknesses and data quality issues.
• Support sanctions risk assessments and ensure alignment with HSBC Group Standards and applicable legal/regulatory requirements.

Transaction monitoring, investigations and suspicious activity governance

• Oversee and challenge the effectiveness of transaction monitoring coverage for IWPB activity (wealth flows, payments, lending-related movements), including typology alignment and scenario coverage.
• Review themes from investigations/case outcomes to identify control gaps, training needs and opportunities for tuning/optimisation.
• Support governance around suspicious activity escalation and regulatory reporting processes (e.g., STR/SAR decisioning), in line with local requirements and HSBC standards.
• Be single point of contact for FC related matters

Risk assessment, control testing and issue remediation

• Support periodic financial crime risk assessments for IWPB (customer segments, products, channels and geographies).
• Challenge the design and operating effectiveness of key FC controls through thematic reviews/quality assurance activity (as applicable).
• Drive remediation of issues to closure, ensuring actions are timely, evidenced and sustainable; validate fixes and track residual risk.

MI, reporting and insights

• Produce/review FC MI for IWPB leadership and governance forums (KRIs, breaches, backlogs, EDD volumes, screening/TM performance, thematic findings).
• Ensure the Key Control Indicators are managed well within thte risk appetite of the Bank
• Provide forward-looking insights on emerging risks and typologies relevant to IWPB and cross-border activity in GIFT City.

Stakeholder management, audit and regulatory support

• Build strong partnerships with IWPB, Operations, Client Onboarding/KYC, Compliance, Risk, Legal, Technology and Group/Regional FCC.
• Support responses to internal/external audits and regulatory examinations; ensure timely, accurate and well-evidenced submissions.
• Contribute to training and awareness for front office and operations teams (red flags, escalation routes, "how we do things" under HSBC standards).

Key stakeholders

• IWPB Business Heads, Relationship Management, Product (Wealth / Transaction Banking / Lending)
• Client Onboarding/KYC, Operations, Investigations/Case Management teams
• Country/Regional FCC and Group FCC
• Risk (including Operational Risk), Legal, Compliance Advisory
• Technology/Change, Data & Analytics
• Internal Audit and regulators (via appropriate governance)

Role context and decision-making

• Operates as a second line of defense FC role providing oversight, challenge and advisory.
• Makes recommendations and escalations in line with delegated authorities; supports risk-based decisioning on higher-risk customers, product changes and control remediation.
• Expected to exercise sound judgement, document decisions clearly, and elevate early where risk is outside appetite or controls are ineffective.

Knowledge, experience and qualifications

Essential

• Strong experience in FCC/AML within banking/financial services, with coverage across Wealth and/or Transaction Banking and/or Lending (combined coverage preferred).
• Working knowledge of AML/CTF, sanctions, CDD/EDD, screening, transaction monitoring, investigations and governance.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders, provide effective challenge, and drive issues to closure.
• Strong analytical skills and clear written communication (committee papers, risk assessments, MI commentary).
• Minimum Graduation or as required for the role, whichever is higher

Desirable

• Experience in IWPB/wealth propositions and cross-border client risk.
• Familiarity with GIFT City / IFSCA environment and operating model considerations.
• Professional qualifications such as ICA/ACAMS (or equivalent).
• Mandatory to successfully complete Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions training and post-course assessment, as required.

Risk and control responsibilities

• Demonstrates strong risk awareness and supports effective management of FCC risks in line with the HSBC FCRM Framework, Group Standards and local regulatory requirements.
• Ensures timely escalation of material risks/issues and maintains robust documentation and audit trails.
• Supports a speak-up culture and continuous improvement mindset.

Note: As an employee, you are required to perform your duties in a professional capacity exercising independent judgement, discretion and decision-making authority in planning, organising, directing work, supervising and appraising the work of team members, as applicable; and taking accountability for delivery outcomes. You will represent the organization with relevant internal and external stakeholders. You will allocate and prioritize work, provide direction and feedback, manage team capacity and leave in line with policy as applicable.

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