He describes himself on Twitter as a ’Proud father and husband, avid explorer, Atlético de Madrid fan and PlasticBuster’.

And if that doesn’t sound to you like the usual description of some dull banker then you would be right. Jaime Amoedo is far from that.

On Thursday he will be waving goodbye to HSBC, the bank where he has worked for 17 years.

’I was in Spain first, then four years in Turkey, two years in Italy and then four in the Isle of Man - I saved the best for last,’ he says with a smile.

And, though he might be leaving the bank, this is where he plans to stay - for now at least. His children, Raquel, 17, known as Rachel, and Jaime, 15, have made many friends and have schooling to finish.

Jaime Jr, who wants to study medicine when he leaves school, insists that when he is qualified he wants to return to the island to live.

’We have absolutely fallen in love with the Isle of Man in every way. It’s been fantastic for the whole family and we have made such a lot of friends. They don’t want to go,’ he says.

Jaime’s career has been an interesting one. He has worked for 30 years in the banking and finance sector, first of all for an American bank.

’Then I went to work for one of their customers and that was a great experience, being a customer, which really taught me a lot. I think it’s a great experience for anybody, in any job, to jump to the other side of the desk.’

Jaime, who speaks four languages, then went to work for an Italian bank in Spain. One of the first foreign banks to receive a licence after the civil war. He left when they were privatised.

Then he was on to HSBC where he has risen to his current position of country head for the Isle of Man. ’I have been immensely proud of the opportunity of leading the Isle of Man team, an amazing group of colleagues. Together we have achieved so much,’ he says.

But Jaime isn’t just about banking: his passions go far wider and were shaped by his childhood. The youngest of five, by a number of years, he was especially close to his father: ’He loved nature and we used to go out together at weekends, fishing and learning about nature.

’When I was 10 years old I joined the boy scouts and that really transformed my life in every way. It taught me to work in a team and as a team,’ he says.

That skill was not just useful in his working life but also in his environmental work outside the bank. A keen walker as well as explorer, Jaime decided to challenge himself by ’walking every single road on the island - around 700 miles’.

It took him seven months but he, sometimes along with his daughter, his wife Raquel and friends, walked every single road, even the little country ones, raising funding for charity, though he says it was ’a bit like Sudoku’, trying to put together routes that didn’t involve too much back tracking over previously covered ground.

’It was fantastic, it allowed me to discover every corner of the island and meet incredible people on the way. I enjoyed it so much,’ he says.

What he didn’t enjoy so much was the amount of litter he saw along the way.

’I realised there was quite a lot of litter and I knew I needed to do something,’ he says.

He was aware of the work of Bill Dale and his Beach Buddies so he knew the coastline of the island was being well looked after.

’I thought: "what about the inside of the island?" that’s all our stuff, that litter, not stuff that’s come from a passing ship,’ he says.

Starting with just a few volunteers from the bank who went out collecting litter with him, Jaime’s PlasticBusters is part of an initiative which has now grown into an organisation which has thousands of volunteers in 103 countries.

During Covid, when it was difficult for people to get together to litter pick, he came up with the ’Let’s #AdoptTheWorld, one place at a time’ initiative for PlasticBusters, which aims to have ’every little corner of the world adopted and taken care of - it could be a park, a forest, a road - any place that you feel proud of and you want to make sure that it’s kept clean,’ Jaime explains.

Volunteers can sign up on the PlasticBusters website and receive a personalised certificate with their name and their adopted place. So far, more than 2,200 places around the world have been adopted.

’I’m so proud of this,’ he says.

He is also very proud of the Wellbeing Award that HSBC won at Isle of Man Newspapers’ Awards for Excellence in 2019. It’s an important element in the culture of the bank, which employs more than 150 people in the island.

He says: ’There has been a very strong mental and physical wellbeing programme in place at the bank and we were really, really proud when we won that award.’

Jaime also joined the board of Digital Isle of Man: ’I’m really passionate about technology. I did a master’s degree in digital marketing, which is transforming the way we interact with our customers and making it easier for them to bank.’

And he is on the board of Junior Achievement, education being another of his passions.

He says: ’Financial literacy is a key strategy for the bank and we have just extended out support for three additional years for Junior Achievement’s Company Programme but I also want to be personally involved with this.’

Now, he says, it’s time for change in his career.

So where is he going to? Well, that can’t be revealed just yet, he is keeping his cards close to his chest on that one.

All he will say for now is: The Isle of Man offers many opportunities and one of the good things about banking is that you get to know absolutely everyone.’