Assistant Vice President - First Line Risk and Control

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 62 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Assistant Vice President - First Line Risk and Control.

In this role, you will:

• Working and closely collaborating with the businesses (GPS) and Operations to review and critique front-to-back processes and controls. Ensuring risk and control standards (including the CCO Control Design Principles) are incorporated in the design of new processes.
• Diligently and consistently conduct Monitoring and analysing control measures to form opinions on the control environment. Ensuring effective and efficient balance of control effectiveness measures (including Risk & Control Assessments, Key Risk Indicators, test approaches, reviews, audits and judgment-based attestations).
• Conduct in depth Analysing root cause of incidents and errors. Identify and eliminate systemic issues in the control environment by performing risk assessment deep dives initiated by trigger events such as internal and external incidents.
• Identify emerging risks and potential issues by developing indicators that, for instance, predict the impact of known risk triggers. Applying knowledge of control failings in other operational processes, locations etc. to enable Operations to identify and address similar control weaknesses.
• Create and build effective relationships with key stakeholders across Operations, GPS and leverage these relationships to ensure that controls advice and guidance from CCO is welcomed and acted upon by stakeholders.

• Ensure that change activity (such as process, operating model and system changes) incorporates control requirements from the initial design onwards. Ensure control remediation activities are robust, complete and sustainable.

• Work effectively as part of a global, multi-skilled team with a range of expertise and experience. Leverage your experience to help others and be open to others helping you
• Lead the effective delivery of communications and training interventions to embed behavioral change.
• Balance your immediate responsibilities in region/business service with the priorities of the global team in order to deliver both.

 To be successful, you will:

• Ensure that Operations has a robust control environment and a strong risk culture through ensuring Control Owners within Operations fully understand their responsibilities and are motivated and focussed on executing these responsibilities daily.
• Working with Control Owners to ensure compliance with the risk policies and control standards.
• Apply and critique the definition and application of policies, control standards and procedures by working with all lines of defence to influence the definition of group policies and control standards.
• Ensuring the control framework enforces policy standards.
• The role holder will be expected on occasion to work outside of the GPS Operations domain and/or outside of the region to support the execution of the broader CCO agenda.

• The role has a direct reporting line to the Senior CCO lead. The role will require occasional regional/global travel.

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