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 Senior Sanctions Manager

 In this role, you will:

• Provide sanctions risk stewardship and advice across HSBC UK Bank PLC (“HSBC UK”) and its Commercial Banking and Wealth and Personal Banking businesses.
• Provide advice in relation to customers and transactions with a sanctions nexus including determination of controls designed to mitigate sanctions risk.
• Providing advice in relation to the sanctions control environment for HSBC UK including all screening and non-screening controls and ensuring appropriate identification, escalation, reporting and remediation of issues.
• Act as delegate for the Head of Sanctions for HSBC UK for sanctions matters
• Foster a close working relationship with all HSBC UK local Compliance teams and business stakeholders for HSBC UK, including keeping abreast of key business developments and any changes to procedures and practices, and provide training as required.
• Lead and co-ordinate regulatory reporting for HSBC UK in relation to sanctions matters.  
• Support the wider advisory team with SME knowledge on sanctions and advisory matters including client due diligence and transaction referrals.
• Working with Financial Crime Investigations on live sanctions investigations.
• Collaborating with sanctions legal to ensure risk based approach within law and regulation

Requirements

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

• Strong understanding of UK/EU/UN/US sanctions and sanctions control frameworks is essential
• Experience in drafting correspondence to and liaising with regulatory bodies preferred.
• Specific experience with sanctions authorities such as OFSI would be beneficial
• Experience dealing with regulatory reporting and high risk exposures via clients.
• Good understanding of business activities for a large global banking group with diverse operations from retail banking, wealth management, commercial banking, global banking, investments, transaction services, asset management, private banking and insurance
• Proven analytical skills, together with the ability to support decisions with sound reasoning

The location for the role is: Birmingham / Hybrid (UK Based)

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