Manager, Compliance Advisory Cmb and Gbm

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At HSBC we exist with the purpose of Opening up a World of Opportunity. We use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to provide opportunities for our customers and colleagues through global connectivity. We bring together the people, ideas and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world - for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities and the planet we all share.

As an HSBC employee in Australia, you’ll have access to tailored professional development opportunities, competitive pay, an embedded flexible working culture and a range of employee benefits. These include market-leading subsidised private health cover, enhanced parental pay and support when returning to work, subsidised banking products and services, bonus leave days and wellness programmes including discounted gym memberships.

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 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.

As a Compliance Advisory Manager supporting our Commercial Banking (CMB) and Global Banking & Markets (GBM) teams, you will be responsible for ensuring that HSBC’s operations in Australia are effective in identifying, managing and mitigating Regulatory Compliance and Financial Crime risks and

ensuring that timely advice is provided to the business.

Taking on this role, provides you with an opportunity for exposure across the breadth of the regulatory compliance and financial crime spaces for CMB & GBM, having a direct impact in providing advisory services to educate the business and engage in continuously improving our knowledge and processes. In doing so, you will interact extensively with stakeholders across the business including legal, operational risk and others.

Your main responsibilities will include:

- Supporting our CMB & GBM businesses to ensuring compliance with relevant external laws & regulations, internal codes and policies and good market practices in relation to regulatory compliance and financial crime risk.
- Providing advisory services to CMB & GBM and helping ensure bankers have a clear understanding of compliance risk exposure with respect to clients, transactions and products including being able to articulate the Regulatory Compliance and Financial Crime risks for Australia.
- Helping the team manage the relationship with relevant regulators.
- Responsibility for second line governance of Regulatory Compliance and Financial Crime risks exposures, providing analysis, reporting and governance, maintaining an objective assessment of risk exposure.
- Supporting senior team members to exercise risk steward challenge, acting as an independent trusted advisor in governance forums and issue management, fostering a compliance culture and optimising relations with risk owners and control owners.
- Supporting the Head of CMB & GBM Compliance Advisory and senior managers to represent the Compliance agenda up to the highest levels of the Group’s governance, reporting on operational effectiveness of policies, processes, systems and controls in countering Regulatory Compliance and Financial Crime risks.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- Some experience in or willingness to quickly learn about financial crime and its regulation.
- Good knowledge of the HSBC Group structure, its business and personnel, and HSBC’s corporate culture.
- Ability to work autonomously within a collaborative team environment.
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills, with an ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels.
- A strong customer focus, with the ability to balance compliance obligations with supporting the business in their commercial operations.
- Flexibility and adaptability in a fast moving, constantly changing environment.
- A qualification in a relevant risk, legal or audit discipline is an advantage, but not essential.

We value different perspectives, we succeed together, collaborating across boundaries, we take responsibility, holding ourselves accountable to get things done. Through these values, HSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are appreciated and respected and where opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and opportunities to grow in an inclusive environment. Applications from First Nations peoples are encourage