WMR Business Architect

Job description

Role Title: WMR Business Architect

Business: Risk Management

New or Existing Role? New

Grade: GCB4

Role Purpose

· HSBC Wholesale Credit and Market Risk (WMR) has instigated a strong business-led focus on the architecture and design of global systems that support its daily business and both the wholesale and traded risk sides of WMR have large programmes of change. The wholesale side in particular has many legacy systems and the group has recognised the need to globalise and modernise its landscape.
· The WMR Business Architecture team currently comprises three people, one team-head and two business architects who focus on Traded Counterparty Risk and on Market Risk, and is looking to recruit a fourth business architect to focus on Wholesale and Group Risk.

Key Accountabilities

Impact on Business

· Understand and model the current wholesale and group risk system components and their interactions;

· Engage with WMR risk transformation teams to understand current and pipeline change programmes;

· Engage with WMR IT and technical architecture teams to understand current and pipeline technology;

· Work with WMR risk transformation, WMR IT colleagues and senior stakeholders to model and clearly communicate target-state business architectures;

· Drive the monthly Wholesale Credit Risk Design Authority process, including preparing, reviewing and curating submissions for approval, documenting outcomes and following up outstanding actions.

· Communicate effectively all business-led architectural change to relevant senior stakeholders, risk transformation partners and IT colleagues.

Customers / Stakeholders

· WMR Managers
· WMR Risk transformation
· WMR IT

Leadership & Teamwork

· Ability to build relationships with stakeholders, risk transformation and risk IT colleagues located in different regions (London, Asia, Europe and the Americas).

· Team player with strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.

· Good English communication skills (verbal and written).

· Ability to multi-task and prioritise appropriately in an agile, fast moving, evolving environment.
· Hands on approach required and willingness to take personal accountability

Operational Effectiveness & Control

· Collaborate effectively with all agile POD members to ensure an efficient route to preparing high-level solution designs.

· Understand, follow and demonstrate compliance with all relevant internal and external rules, regulations and procedures that apply to the conduct of the business in which you are involved, specifically Internal Controls and any Compliance policy including, inter alia, the Group Compliance policy.

· Understand, follow and demonstrate compliance with all relevant internal and external rules, regulations and procedures that apply to the conduct of the business in which you are involved, specifically Internal Controls and any Compliance policy including, inter alia, the Group Compliance policy.

· Be aware of the Operational Risk associated with your role and act in a manner that takes account of operational risk considerations.

Major Challenges

· Understand the current Wholesale and Group Risk business system components, what they do and how they interact with each other and what their various strengths and weaknesses are.
· Understanding the key parts of new business requirements that require a strong focus on architecture
· Track books of work and the change pipeline to proactively support the change process.
· Work collaboratively in an agile framework.
· Prepare clear current-state, interim-state and target-state solution diagrams that can be understood by senior business colleagues yet still add value to IT.
· Interact with business architecture colleagues in Traded Risk to ensure synergies across WMR are recognised and addressed.

Role Context

· Global role located at HSBC Edinburgh, interfacing with risk transformation colleagues in Edinburgh, London and India, Risk management colleagues in major global locations and SWD teams in India, China and Hong Kong. Reports to Head of Business Architecture, London.

Role Dimensions

· The individual will be a member of the 4-strong Business Architecture-team.

Management of Risk

· The jobholder will also continually reassess the operational risks associated with the role and inherent in the business, taking account of changing economic or market conditions, legal and regulatory requirements, operating procedures and practices, management restructurings, and the impact of new technology.

· This will be achieved by ensuring all actions take account of the likelihood of operational risk occurring.

· Also by addressing any areas of concern in conjunction with line management and/or the appropriate department.

Observation of Internal Controls

· The jobholder will also adhere to and be able to demonstrate adherence to internal controls. This will be achieved by adherence to all relevant procedures, keeping appropriate records and, where appropriate, by the timely implementation of internal and external audit points, including issues raised by external regulators.

· The jobholder will implement the Group compliance policy by containing compliance risk in liaison with Global Head of Compliance, Global Compliance Officer, Area Compliance Officer or Local Compliance Officer. The term ‘compliance' embraces all relevant financial services laws, rules and codes with which the business has to comply.

· This will be achieved by adhering to all relevant processes/procedures and by liaising with Compliance department about new business initiatives at the earliest opportunity. Also and when applicable, by ensuring adequate resources are in place and training is provided, fostering a compliance culture and optimising relations with regulators.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Knowledge & Experience / Qualifications

Essential

·  Educated to degree level in a numerate subject.
·  Analytical mindset.
·  Strong in at least two of the following three areas:
·  Knowledge of Wholesale Banking.
·  Experience of Risk Management in some financial context.
·  Experience of some form of Data, Business Systems or Business Process Modelling.

Desirable, but not essential

·  Experience in transformation projects
·  Previous business analysis experience.
·  Experience of modelling standards, such as BMPN, Archimate, UML or ERM.

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