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Client Management Associate

Employer
HSBC
Location
Minneapolis
Salary
Competitive

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**Job description**

At HSBC, the health and well-being of our employees remains of utmost importance. Many of our roles are permitted to work from home (in states in which HSBC is licensed to operate) until further notice. Upon resumption of normal operations, this role may be performed at our New York, New York office.

Onboarding and Client Management Services are accountable for the management and co-ordination of new on-boards, existing client maintenance, renewals and reviews and co-ordination of client exits within the Institutional Client sector.

**The main purpose of the role is consistent:**

- Give visibility of the onboarding process to key stakeholders, including information about alignment with HSBC's policies and controls e.g. AML
- Build alignment of the onboarding process to local and/or global standards as required in the specific location
- Provide the single point of contact for onboarding / renewal and off-boarding activity in a location (at Location, Sector or Sub-sector level depending on the scale of the location)
- Co-ordination of onboarding/renewal and off-boarding activity on behalf of the GBM Relationship Managers aligned to clients requirements.

The Client Manager will be the key point of contact for the Relationship Manager and for the Client from an onboarding, Maintenance and Off-boarding perspective. They will be aware of all activity in progress on behalf of a client, globally and be able to update GBM stakeholders as required.

Client Managers will work closely with GBM RM's and Products Sales to pro-actively drive onboarding for the client to ensure all requests (new business, renewals and exits) are captured, prioritized and resolved within agreed timeframes. Taking ownership of onboarding problems and resolving onboarding issues. Ensuring transparency and regular communication and updates to key stakeholders. The Client Managers will direct the case management of onboarding requests either processed locally or by off-shore (or near shore) case managers. They will be accountable for working closely with all functional teams (KYCS, Credit, Docs and Account Maintenance) to ensure priorities are aligned and that business requirements can be met across the end to end process.

Very strong emphasis on ability to build effective relationships with both internal and external clients / stakeholders to expedite resolution of onboarding issues and maintain fluidity of onboarding pipe to directly maximize revenue generation opportunities while ensuring full alignment with HSBC policy and controls e.g. KYC and Credit renewals policy.

**Impact on the Business**

- Management of onboarding, renewal and off-boarding requests
- Work closely with GBM to capture requirements for new requests and to raise new requests as required. Client Managers should be working with RM's prior to new request being raised so that they are fully aware of the requirements
- Responsible for ensuring all required information is available to ensure the smooth completion of the request e2e, including information required by all downstream functions
- Responsible for ensuring all requests are prioritized, resolved within agreed timeframes, work-flow pipeline optimized, priorities identified early and issues escalated accordingly.
- Be the onboarding SME; developing a detailed understanding of the clients, Onboarding functions, system, process and procedures in order to advise the Business, Clients and near shore Case Managers.
- Own and orchestrate to completion cross-border request, in multiple jurisdictions if needed for clients that they own and by working closely with other client managers across the globe
- Own and manage off-boarding of clients managed in their locality
- Support the RM and Client through the conversion to the new Global AML standard including having a clear understanding of the additional due diligence requirements and how they will impact the client and support clients and functional SME's in the gathering of this information
- Be the onshore escalation point for all on-boarding issues, working closely with all impacted and interested parties and driving the near shore case managers and functional SMEs to ensure bottlenecks are resolved in an efficient and timely manner.
- Highlight problems/blockages and take initiative to suggest ideas to change and improve processes.
- Strong emphasis on the maintenance of an effective and rigid control environment ensuring quality and adherence is never compromised.
- Requirement to provide accurate / regular status updates to the business in terms of on-boarding requests and other related issues / events.
- Adhering to all service level agreements and metric requirements at all times
- Alignment to and Delivery of the onboarding standard
- Assist in the communication and embedding of the standard onboarding processes based on knowledge of the location, client and product requirements
- Accountable for ensuring all required steps in the onboarding process have been undertaken and that all relevant controls have been adhered to
- Provide management information that demonstrates that status of the onboarding processes as measured against the defined standards, clearly articulating gaps and issues
- Support business and onboarding delivery teams to build alignment to the standards and to introduce the required controls and measures

**Customers / Stakeholders**

- Ownership for the relationship with the client as it pertains to onboarding, renewal and off-boarding activity
- Deep knowledge of the clients being managed in a location including maintenance of corporate knowledge about the client so that subsequent work is able to access previous data easily and consistently
- Build global relationships with other client managers so that a global client view can be cultivated
- Accountable for providing a very visible point of contact for the Relationship Managers and client in terms of on-boarding queries or escalations
- Implement the client engagement framework in order to effectively manage specific strategic clients and ensure client traction on outstanding issues across all products lines.
- Work as part of the GBM coverage team in order to ensure current priorities are clearly understood based on developing a strategic understanding of the client requirements with the coverage teams
- Accountable for ensuring the right level of MI and reporting is delivered to meet the requirements of client, business and internal stakeholders

**Leadership & Teamwork**

- Provide support and guidance to respective near shore case manager.
- Lead by example by ensuring own on-boarding portfolio is case managed appropriately and also providing guidance to the near shore case manager where applicable.
- Provide support and guidance to respective peer group in order to meet OCMS objectives.
- Support the GBM Onboarding Client Management Heads bu ensuring activities and daily tasks are conducted in a way that ensure alignment to the longer term strategy
- Lead and develop an effective team through communication, performance management, development plans and reward/recognition practices.
- Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the HSBC brand.

**Operational Effectiveness & Control**

- Accountable for ensuring the correct information is available to facilitate the whole onboarding process and that the information is collected and stored once wherever possible
- Ensure the most effective process is being used e2e to support the requirements of the business and to meet the required controls, identify issues and gaps and put in place activity to resolve these
- Ensure the onboarding standards are met based on the client, product and location of the request. Identify gaps and work with key stakeholders to resolve issues
- Adhere strictly to compliance and operational risk controls in accordance with HSBC and regulatory standards, policies and practices; report control weaknesses, compliance breaches and operational loss events.
- To implement the Group compliance policy locally by containing compliance risk in liaison with the Head of Group Compliance, Global Business Compliance Officer, Area Compliance Officer or Local Compliance Officer, ensuring adequate compliance resources and training, fostering a compliance culture and optimizing relations with regulators.
- Complete other responsibilities, as assigned.

**Major Challenges**

- The role plays a key part in joining together the priorities and requirements of the business with the availability of service providers (e.g.KYC, Credit, AML etc.). The role holder will have to build deep knowledge about the client and work closely with the business and functional delivery teams to ensure priorities are aligned with resource availability and ensure issues are resolved in a timely manner
- There is an expectation that the role will be deeply embedded within the GBM business / coverage teams, whilst still maintaining strong relationships with the functional delivery teams. However the relationship with the functional delivery teams will need to become more formalized through the definition and usage of clear service levels.

**Role Context**

- Working in a dynamic, pressurized, time-sensitive environment with interaction with internal stakeholders and demanding / advanced external clients.

**Management of Risk**

- Ensure compliance, operational risk controls in accordance with HSBC or regulatory standards and policies; and optimize relations with regulators by addressing any issues...... click apply for full job details

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