External Investigative Reporting Analyst - Hang Seng Bank (HK)

Job description

A Career with Hang Seng Bank

Hang Seng is committed to service excellence. Our people are our most important asset and play a vital role in our efforts to continually enhance our performance for customers and provide best-in-class products and services. We seek to attract high-calibre talent by offering a dynamic working environment, good career development opportunities and competitive compensation packages.

External Investigative Reporting Analyst

External Investigation Reporting, Financial Crime Threat Mitigation, Compliance

Compliance is a global function that brings together all aspects of regulatory and financial crime risk management. We work together with the business and leverage advanced technology to help Hang Seng navigate a complex regulatory landscape and embed a sustainable approach to compliance risk management that supports safe growth and serves customers fairly. Compliance aspires to continuously raise the bar and set leading standards across the industry to help Hang Seng safeguard its customers and the communities within which it operates.

External Investigation Reporting (EIR) is a unit in Financial Crime Threat Mitigation taking up the investigation role of providing a single functional resolution for all investigations in HASE. The basic financial crimes include money laundering, fraud, bribery and corruption, sanctions violations, tax evasion, and terrorist financing. EIR manage intake and triage for all case leads and enquiries through a globally consistent access point, conduct and coordinate investigative activity at country/regional/global level, produce case output to drive action by internal risk and control owners and author and file reports with appropriate authorities.

We are currently seeking a high caliber professional to join our department as External Investigative Reporting Analyst . This is an opportunity for those who would like to pursue a long-term career progression in this increasingly important function within the bank, with the potential to become an experienced AML investigator in the long run.

Principal responsibilities

· Support AML Investigation and Analysis Manager/Assistant Manager to investigate money laundering alerts by collecting, collating and disseminating evidence of any suspicious account activities or irregularities with recommendations for management review
· Conduct effective and timely investigation into assigned cases in accordance with agreed standard reporting requirements and service levels.
· Provide recommendations and assist in preparing suspicious transaction reports, advise frontline business units on suspicious transactions reporting requirements, and escalate investigations to related counterparts where necessary
· Conduct day-to-day operations of AML Investigations, including conducting searches.
· Prepare a high quality investigative narrative and record the case history in a digital case file.
· Identify possible violations of law or regulation so as to contain the Bank's risk in respect of money laundering

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Requirements

·  Graduate in Law, Risk Management, Accounting & Finance, Economics, Business Administration or related discipline is preferred
·  More than one year working experience in AML field
·  Strong analytical mindset with self-motivation and able to meet tight deadlines
·  Logical thinking and detail-minded with good research skills
·  Strong written communication and presentation skills
·  Proficiency in both written and spoken English and Cantonese
·  Good knowledge of application software (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint) & Chinese Word Processing
·  Prior exposure in banking and finance systems will be highly regarded.
·  Great sense of ownership and servicing mindset to ensure efficient and effective customer service processes

The health and safety of our employees and candidates is very important to us. Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), we're leveraging our digital capabilities to ensure we can continue to recruit top talent at the HSBC Group. As your application progresses, you may be asked to use one of our digital tools to help you through your recruitment journey. If so, one of our Resourcing colleagues will explain how our video-interviewing technology will be used throughout the recruitment process and will be on hand to answer any questions you might have.