Job description

Discover a role that really opens doors.

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.

Within Compliance, the Financial Crime Analysis function provides proprietary insight into the most significant financial crime issues facing HSBC and our growth strategy, enabling the Bank to focus on its customers whilst understanding and managing inherent financial crime risks as part of Intelligence-Led Financial Crime Risk Management (ILFRCM). We aspire to be HSBC’s ‘go to’ source of expertise on geopolitical and jurisdictional drivers of financial crime, criminal threats, actors and typologies. Our teams develop deep expertise on these topics; their product informs, provides meaningful context, and explains the impact of these issues on the Bank and its strategy.

The role of Risk Analyst – Financial Crime focuses on the financial crime threats HSBC faces now and in the future, producing research to help protect our business, our customers, and the many communities in which we operate from the harms associated with financial crime.

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.

We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Risk Analyst – Financial Crime

In this role, you will:

• Be part of the UK Financial Crime Analysis team, assessing and articulating potential risks to HSBC from existing and emerging financial crime threats.
• Proactively identify and analyse threat themes: the role holder must be curious, innovative and adaptable in their approach to produce assessments with high business impact.
• Combine developing specific financial crime subject matter expertise with data-driven analytical approaches, carrying out qualitative and quantitative analysis and research on threat themes and trends to assess how they may affect the Bank from a financial crime risk perspective.
• Deliver timely and accurate reports and briefings to a diverse set of audiences; we must be timely, comfortable with a variety of product types, and relevant to our audience – including helping the business to grow.
• Have the ability to write succinctly and coherently for senior audiences and to brief findings verbally, and have a degree of comfort with data analysis.

Requirements

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

• Ideally a degree holder (or equivalent) although not essential with outstanding qualitative research and critical analysis skills;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to draft high quality reports for senior readers with meticulous attention to detail.
• A flair for building relationships and a willingness to proactively engage with stakeholders across the organisation.
• A willingness to acquire new knowledge and skills across a range of subjects, including financial services, digital, and data analysis.

Desirable Experience and Skills

• Experience with data analysis: interpretation and transformation of data sets, delivering intelligence insights from raw data and producing effective and innovative data visualisations.
• Knowledge and/or background in financial crime themes, such as sanctions evasion or money laundering, or macro themes that impact the financial crime landscape, such as geopolitics or digitisation.
• Familiarity with financial institutions, how they operate and their products and services an advantage.

The base location for this role is London, Birmingham, Sheffield or Edinburgh with hybrid working available.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

At HSBC we look to enable our employees to better balance their work / life priorities and have the flexibility required to meet challenging needs as they progress through different life stages. Where possible we will consider the following flexible working options: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, and working from home and staggered hours. If in considering a role with HSBC you have a need for some flexibility in your working arrangements please discuss this with the recruitment team in the early stages of the application process.

As a business operating in markets all around the world, we believe diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term health condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate. Within the work place you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has in place processes in order to avoid nepotism, which means to avoid creating circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.