Assistant Vice President

Job description

Job description

Why join us?

MSS Operations NFR team is an internal risk and control management function primarily responsible for ensuring that risks within Markets Operations are managed within risk appetite. It is a global, and cross asset-class, function that works closely with Control Owners in ensuring that key controls are adequate in mitigating our material risks. The function is broadly responsible for evaluating risks, monitoring, reviewing, and testing both the design and operation of key controls, driving consistency of the internal control framework across locations where there is a Markets and Securities Services (MSS) presence, ensuring adherence to risk & control policies, reinforcing control culture and directing control awareness activities, and ensuring that Operations management are accountable for their risks and taking action on a timely basis to remediate.

The Opportunity: 

The NFR role holder for Data and Regulatory Reporting will be acountable for the delivery of the operations risk strategy & culture for their Operations business line within Data & Reg Reporting.  The role holder will be responsible for implementing strong risk management processes and frameworks, proactively supporting the Operations business line within risk appetite.

What you’ll do:

The role holder will support their region delivering exceptional overall governance, mobilisation and management of a robust and effective control framework across a locationally diverse Operations team. Working within the governance framework the role holder must support their business line to provide clear sight of emerging risks and incident trends across their function, resulting in proactive and timely responses. Partnering closely with their business line and their peers, they will drive the delivery of the MSS Operations strategy for risk reduction.

The role holder will work closely with MSS Operations Management and colleagues in MSS Ops NFR teams to maintain a forward looking function and will help support their business line across various risk governance forums. 

The role holder will need to be deeply connected with the teams, understanding the challenges across the Operations function and will strongly lead improvements to the global process environment in an ambitious and agile manner, ensuring progression to a more standard, sustainable and optimized way of delivering operational processes.  They will strengthen controls and HSBC’s ability to achieve cost efficiencies in line with market, client demand and service expectations. In particular, the role holder will lead the controls review for key strategic change programmes within their remit, ensuring that optimum control design is achieved and transformation risk is minimised.

The role holder will proactively enage with the 2LoD and 3LoD teams, where appropriate, acting as the key interface to MSS Operations, and supporting Operations management in settting strategy and direction for remediation of high risk findings to ensure similar risk issues are proactively mitigated across MSS Operations.

The ability to influence senior stakeholders and peers alike.  Challenge processes and polices within their business line is critical for this role, along with solid leadership skills to support and enchance the speak up culture.  The individual will be able to proactively drive forward strategic outcomes, with minimal oversight.

Requirements

What you will need to succeed in the role:

·  Proven experience of positive, challenging interactions with Senior Management
·  Proven ability in working across multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural diverse work environments
·  Possess strong analytical background and critical thinker, sound judgement on sensitive/gray areas
·  Proven ability in involvement in large-scale, complex global / regional change programmes
·  Proven ability to articulate complex issues concisely and in clear language
·  Good working knowledge of Operations functional area and varying degrees of appreciation for risk management strategies, capabilities, and governance

What additional skills will be good to have?

·  Deep understanding of HSBC Group structures, values, behaviors, processes and objectives
·  Strong intimate knowledge of HSBC’s various Global business’s and functions
·  Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively and confidently at all levels
·  Excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills.
·  Build and maintain relationships with various teams across the HSBC organization
·  Positive ‘can do’ attitude, high level of motivation to meet challenging deadlines and targets.