Job description

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The Compliance function is a Second line of defence (LOD) function, responsible for reviewing and challenging the activities of the Group’s businesses (also referred to as “the First LOD”) to ensure that they effectively manage as “Risk Owners” the Regulatory and Financial Crime Compliance risks inherent in or arising from the conduct of their activities and for which they are responsible. The Second LOD consists of 'Risk Stewards' who are independent of the commercial risk-taking activities undertaken by the First LOD. The Compliance function is a Risk Steward for a number of non-financial risks in accordance with HSBC Group’s risk framework.

We are currently seeking an ambitious individual to join our team as an Business Analyst, working together with colleagues to define, manage and achieve divisional business targets.

Role Purpose

The Financial Crime(FC) office plays a role in enabling the efficient and effective running of Compliance by serving as trusted partners to the Chief Compliance Officers and other Group Capabilities.

The Product Management team ensures that essential systems and data are available to enable Compliance to conduct effective and efficient investigations and analytics. The team is proactive and future-looking, shaping financial crime technology and promoting its adoption across Compliance.

The role holder will be responsible for the identification, analysis and implementation of requirements for new capabilities used by Compliance to assess and analyse financial crime and reputational risk for all of the Bank’s clients. This will require close and productive working relationships with the Information Technology (IT) development team and analysts, and skilled relationship management with both internal system owners and external data vendors.

The role may require occasional nationwide or overseas travel.

In this role, you will:

• Develop specialist knowledge of the product management process to support all new project and enhancement requests within the overall FC and Compliance objectives
• Gather relevant data, costs and requirements to enable accurate and balanced decisions to be made
• Ensure requirements are communicated clearly, consistently and software delivery, operations and functional colleagues at all levels
• Be pro-active and seek opportunities to improve the system usage by engaging with all relevant stakeholders and subject matter experts in a collaborative manner
• Demonstrate product capabilities to new and existing users and conducting training as required
• Be required to augment software testing capabilities as necessary

Requirements

To be successful in the role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Proven track record as an outstanding analyst, consultant and/or project manager
• Overall financial services industry knowledge with specific functional expertise
• Extensive experience gathering requirements and conducting design activity, with a mix of business, operations and technology focused projects
• Exposure to business case development and a sound understanding of how design enablers underpin business benefits
• Strong experience of delivering change into different audiences and managing implementation in banking environments
• Effective communication, inter-personal and negotiating skills
• Proven ability to work across regions whilst maintaining a global perspective
• Proven ability to work with senior stakeholders and business sponsors

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