Director, Trade Surveillance Capabilities

Role: Director, Trade Surveillance Capabilities (GCB3) — London

If you’re looking for a career that will unlock new opportunities, join HSBC and experience the possibilities. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is looking for a senior leader to own and drive our global Trade Surveillance change portfolio. You’ll be accountable for delivering material regulatory commitments and measurable improvements in market abuse control effectiveness across process, technology, data, and analytics—safely, consistently, and sustainably across our global operating model.

 As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

What you’ll do

• Own the global trade surveillance roadmap, demand intake, and consolidated backlog across regions/entities.
• Set priorities and make scope/sequencing decisions based on regulatory deadlines, risk materiality, control gaps, capacity constraints, and risk tolerance breaches.
• Deliver Group OPCO and regulatory commitments and remediation plans on time, with end-to-end audit-ready evidence (design, testing, approvals, implementation, assurance).
• Lead end-to-end delivery across multiple workstreams (requirements through to implementation and operational handover), using agile ways of working.
• Drive integrated planning across Compliance, Markets, Ops, Technology, Data and Analytics; manage RAID, dependencies, and critical path.
• Chair/drive senior governance forums (e.g., SteerCos/programme boards) and influence MD-level stakeholders across the bank.
• Partner with Technology leadership on end-to-end capability delivery, service sustainability, and progress towards application rationalisation/demise.
• Improve data quality, completeness, lineage and reconciliations; enhance scenario/model performance with Analytics (tuning/calibration, monitoring, change controls).
• Ensure operational readiness: procedures, training, MI/KPIs, support models, and post-release performance tracking (alert volumes, false positives, coverage, timeliness).
• Maintain adherence to the Change Framework and Change Execution Risk Policy (refer to FIM/departmental instructions for requirements)

Leadership scope

• Direct people management: 9 Product Owners
• Matrix delivery leadership: ~140 squad members globally

What you’ll bring

• Significant experience delivering enterprise-scale change in Trade Surveillance / Market Conduct / Financial Crime Compliance (or closely related risk/control domains).
• Proven ownership of a global portfolio with complex dependencies and senior governance.
• Strong track record delivering regulatory commitments with robust evidence management and audit/regulatory readiness.
• Confident MD-level stakeholder management across functions and geographies.
• Strong data management knowledge (DQ controls, lineage, reconciliations) and exposure to analytics/model governance and tuning.
• Experience working across multiple regulators/entities and with trade surveillance platforms.
• Strong backlog-driven prioritisation and delivery management within agreed funding levels.

Opening up a world of opportunity

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. Our recruitment processes are accessible to everyone - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.

We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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