Managing Associate General Counsel - Location: Geneva or Zurich

Being part of HSBC in Switzerland, you’ll help evolve and grow our business.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Managing Associate General Counsel, Financial Crime Legal Advisory in Switzerland. Are you interested ? Do you have a significant experience advising senior level management? Do you enjoy to be part of a cohesive team ?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, we want to hear from you!

What you will do:

This role will serve as a financial crime legal expert globally, with subject matter expertise Swiss, EU, UK, UN, US, and other relevant financial crime (FC) legal regimes. This role will also support the Bank’s strategic direction in relation to FC laws, policies and compliance within the context of legal and regulatory requirements globally.

In this role you will:

• Serve as counsel and subject matter expert on FC legal issues, which includes matters that are complex and have significant potential for legal, financial, and/or reputational impact for HSBC.
• Provide legal advice on the requirements of Swiss, EU, UK, UN, US, and other relevant FC laws to enable the bank to comply with those laws and manage HSBC’s legal, compliance, and reputational risks across the financial crime portfolio.
• Support efforts to appropriately manage the Bank’s FC and related reputational risk in a commercially sensitive, practical, and proactive manner.
• Identify emerging trends regarding FC legal requirements, engage with key stakeholders regarding these trends, and develop approaches to mitigate potential legal risk.
• Develop and deliver training on FC legal risks at global, regional, and local levels as needed.

Requirements:

• Superior (expert) knowledge of financial crime laws, including anti-money laundering, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption and fraud law of Switzerland and other jurisdictions in which HSBC operates.
• Significant experience advising senior level management.
• Communication and inter-personal skills with lawyers, compliance officers, and businesses across diverse geographies and cultures.
• Lateral thinking, with an ability to interpret and solve complex challenges involving multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience dealing with complex regulatory matters and confidential interactions with regulators across jurisdictions.
• Solid judgment and strong ability to prioritize.
• Proactive problem-solver, detail-oriented and meticulous in follow-up and work product.
• Qualified Lawyer with minimum a deep post-educational experience.

Even if you feel you do not meet 100% of our qualifications, we encourage you to apply, if you believe this role is right for you.

What you’ll get in return:

Not only is HSBC a great place to work, but we also offer the following unique and exciting opportunities and benefits:

• We’ll help you progress your career, including access to development programmes, mentoring and coaching, as well as world-class training through HSBC University.
• You can work your way and will have a say in when, where and how you and your team flexibly work together.

Our benefits will give you financial security, and can include:

• Health & meal allowance, public transport or (e-)bike allowance
• Our family-focused benefits can help you to support your loved ones and include: days off for key events (weddings, moving house, adoption). A one-time marriage or registering of a "Civil Partnership" grant. One-time premium for birth or adoption, as "gift" or "voucher. 4 weeks’ paternity leave & 26 weeks’ maternity leave
• Emergency Childcare with the Red Cross, free of charges for HSBC employees.
• Purchased holidays scheme, unpaid leave, sabbatical, Volunteering Leave,
• Accident insurance (private coverage) paid by the Employer, attractive Pension Scheme

We’ll give you a huge range of resources that support your mental, physical and social well-being, including:

• Various sports and leisure activities organised by the employees for the employees.
• The Bank offers to the employees and their family members specialised free, confidential service to help them deal with any personal problems – either at work or at home. Unlimited telephone consultations services available 24/7.
• You’ll have opportunities to work internationally - this can be your place to start and branch out to anywhere we have offices
• You’ll be able to join our Employee Resource Groups that bring together colleagues with shared characteristics and common interests.

HSBC has been certified “Top Employer 2025” in Switzerland. This recognition from the Top Employers Institute rewards our HR practices and recognises HSBC as an HR Leader in Switzerland.

At HSBC, our purpose is opening up a world of opportunity and by joining our team, you can be part of something bigger. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible.

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.

HSBC is a signatory company of the Advance Charter. This Charter is a commitment towards gender equality in business and hence a workplace environment that supports a fair and balanced approach to hiring, remunerating, promoting and retaining female talent.

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best.

If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please let us know.

HSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. Personal data held by the Bank relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.

Within HSBC in Switzerland all internal candidates from Group and external applicants are required (subject to local laws), to pass satisfactorily a series of additional checks both as part of the application process and, if successfully recruited into the role. The Group reserves its position with regard to any steps which it may take in relation to any material adverse findings which arise either when the checks are first carried out as part of this recruitment exercise, and/or if relevant, on an ongoing basis.

For further information on building your career at HSBC, please visit: www.hsbc.com/careers