Assistant Manager External Investigative Reporting

-Job description**Role purpose**Financial Crime Investigations (FCI) provides an industry-leading investigations capability to identify financial crime proactively, quickly, and effectively. It has a global perspective, coordinating investigations between countries and regions, developing best investigative practices, and delivering clear findings and recommendations that drive proactive and impactful risk management. FCI facilitates information sharing with internal and external stakeholders, including regulatory, law enforcement and security agencies. FCI leverages its findings to support the continuing evolution of the regulatory landscape based on practical, tested innovation.Investigative Reporting is responsible for high volume investigations generated by monitoring alerts (system generated), which include transaction monitoring alerts and name screening alerts and cases where Triage has determined a Case Rating 2 applies based on FC-UARs (Financial Crime - Unusual Activity Reports) or production/court orders and other referrals.Investigative Reporting prepares reports or appropriate closing summaries for all investigations conducted and prepares and files SARs (Suspicious Activity Reports) on such investigations, where warranted. Investigative Reporting is responsible for ensuring that findings of financial crime risk are shared with relevant risk owners and/or risk stewards for investigations conducted by Investigative Reporting and making any cross-border referrals to other Investigative Reporting teams, where appropriate.Investigative Reporting is also responsible for preparing and filing SARs for investigations conducted by Major Investigations and Complex Investigations.**Main activities**- Perform effective and timely investigation focused on Financial Crime in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), terrorist financing, fraud, bribery, corruption, sanctions, tax evasion, illegal trafficking, market abuse and other conduct risks. investigations include matters involving customers, prospective customers, customers of customers, staff members, accounts, products, and/or payment clearing or trade transactions, that pose potential financial crime risk to HSBC.- Communicate findings with relevant internal control owners, risk owners and risk stewards; produces evidence for law enforcement agencies; and files suspicious activity reports (SARs) when required. Investigations are a risk-based review that supports findings that financial crime risk or suspicious activity have been identified, or to close the case in the absence of such findings.- Prepare reports, or appropriate closing summaries, for investigations and prepares and files SARs, where warranted, comply with Mexican laws requirements.- Complete individual work assignment, using and tailoring the risk-based review that supports findings that financial crime risk or suspicious activity have been identified, or to close the case in the absence of such findings.- Ensure that each research carried out meets the requirements of the Mexican regulation and the quality guidelines required for each research.- Participate actively in internal meetings, trainings and activities within the team.- Provide information when required by the team leader.- Adherence to any required job timelines.- Providing guidance and feedback to TM (Transaction Monitoring) Operations investigators.- Actively collaborate with other FCI Teams.Requirements- Experience in Financial Crime Investigations, mainly in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), terrorist financing, fraud and sanctions.- Strong knowledge of Mexican regulatory framework, mainly in 115 article.- Have write skill in a high quality investigative narrative.- Knowledge of the regulatory environment and the Group's expectations, as well as the main internal regulations, codes and HSBC Group.- Ability to find solutions. Analytical and argumentation capability to support findings. Ability to work in coordination with other team members.- University degree (Law, Business Administration, Accounting, among others)- Medium level of English (writing/conversation)- Experience in prioritizing competing demands and able to communicate effectively.- Experience in dealing with regulatory issues.