Risk and Controls Officer

Risk and Controls Officer

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 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 Risk and Controls Officer .

The Onboarding and Know Your Customer (OBKYC) Enabler Value Stream has been established to deliver common, group-wide onboarding and KYC capabilities and services. It brings together business, operations and technology colleagues to co-design and build solutions to deliver better products and services for our customers. The group currently works across all four businesses in the group, managing c.800 FTE and a bank wide budget of c.$120m
This value stream is intended to deliver towards our Future State Architecture (FSA) and the Digital Acceleration Programme - enabling a consistent approach in how we deliver change across the bank to facilitate improving the experience of our customers, the resilience of our infrastructure, and allow us to embrace innovative technologies.
Our global businesses, operations and technology teams work closely together to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world, to bank quickly, simply, and securely.

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.

In this role you will:

• Create forward looking view of what the strategy should be with regards to Risk & Control. Consult on technology projects and provide risk and control subject matter expertise during IT audits and managing sustainable control compliance posture.
• Partner with the Business service owners, Business Risk and Chief Control Office Technology functions to promote and provide guidance to relevant policies, standards and governance within the department
• Provide updates with respect to global IT Control uplift programs to stakeholders. Lead IT engagement with internal / external / client audit and Regulatory Exams, including oversight of field work, collation of artefacts and partnership with CCO tech to remediate issues.
• Communicate residual risk through reporting, business governance processes and forums. Provide visibility of status of action plans and external/internal audit issues through different MIs/Dashboards
• Partner with IT Service Owners and Service line head to identify and assess controls, determine mitigating actions and remediation activities, and understand the overall risk profile.
• Act as a gatekeeper in collection of artefacts and / or evidence for internal/external audits and assessments, and act as POC for auditors and reviewers.
• Lead the delivery of risk & control projects and programmes for the Client Services IT. Assist IT Service Owners in responding appropriately and effectively to firm-wide risk, Cybersecurity and corporate control initiative.
• Drive ownership and accountability for Risk/Issue and Action Plan Ownership within Service line. Ability to converse with technical teams and assess their solutions for gaps and issues as well as propose mitigating or compensating controls.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• Experience in IT Risk and Control, IT security governance and operational processes, preferably in the Financial Services industry or global corporate service provider
• Experience of a control (Risk Management) environment, including reviewing adherence to/enforcing/promoting policies and standards
• Excellent communication skills to articulate at a senior management level, to peers at Group level and to external organisations (Clients, Auditors, Regulators). Ability to communicate technical subject matter to non-technical stakeholders
• Proven ability to prioritise competing demands
• Demonstrated ability to assess risk trends
• Risk and Issues management - including escalation

This role is based in Sheffield.

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 - 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. 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.

If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com

Telephone: +44 207 832 8500