Senior ESG Risk Manager (f/m/d)

You should apply if you have :

Experience

• Significant experience within risk at a major institution, ideally with an experience on ESG risk management.
• Knowledge and experience in risk management to support the understanding and day to day management of ESG risks.
• Good communication skills – Ensure effective communication and understanding of relevant changes across key Group and local stakeholders.
• Highly motivated, diligent, collaborative, personable and capable of working independently and exercising judgment.
• Able effectively to work within a global and an evolving organisation.
• Capacity to prioritise tasks, resolve problems and support 1LOD deliverables.

Qualification

• Quantitative degree, ideally with professional education in Finance.

Skills :

• Skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Fluent English and French (written and spoken).

Even if you feel you do not meet 100% of our qualifications, we encourage you to apply, if you believe this role is right for you.

What you’ll get in return :

Not only is HSBC a great place to work, but we also offer the following unique and exciting opportunities and benefits!

HSBC has been certified “Top Employer 2024” in Europe. This recognition from the Top Employers Institute rewards our HR practices and recognises HSBC as an HR Leader in France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland and Spain. HSBC in France has been certified with LinkedIn Top Employer 2024 for Finance, recognising our team as a great place to work within the Finance industry.

A unique and flexible working environment :

• Advantageous remote working agreement
• Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of our business : joining HSBC will give you the opportunity to work in a collegiate and supportive environment
• You’ll be able to join our Employee Resource Groups that bring together colleagues with shared characteristics and common interests
• Usual local benefits (refund of transport fees at 50%, 5 weeks of paid vacation + RTT)
• Family events days off, additional maternity or breastfeeding leave, advantageous paternity leave, parental presence or dependency support leave (for child or parent with disability)
• A Time Savings Account to monetize your untaken off days (CET)

Family benefits :

• Partial reimbursement of childcare costs
• Various bonus (birth bonus, back-to-school bonus for your children up to 25, parental bonus)
• An allowance for parents of children with disabilities
• Possibility to work part-time

Financial benefits :

• A company savings plan and a savings plan for collective retirement
• Meal voucher card or corporate restaurant depending on your place of employment
• Mutual insurance for you and your family, and a pension contract to protect your loved ones
• A loyalty bonus and a long-service medal rewarding seniority
• Holiday vouchers based on your reference tax income
• CESUs (for tax purposes) if you are disabled or if you have a disabled child, spouse or parent
• A Work Council which offers, among other things, ticketing, travel, sports, legal aid, etc.

Personal development benefits :

• Access to our Degreed platform (learning platform above all, that you can use to discover learning content, develop skills, and successfully meet new business challenges)
• We’ll help you progress your career, including access to development programmes, mentoring and coaching, as well as world-class training through HSBC University
• We’ll give you access to resources that support your mental, physical, and social well-being

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.

If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please let us know.

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For further information on building your career at HSBC, please visit : www.hsbc.com / careers

At HSBC, our purpose is opening up a world of opportunity and by joining our team, you can be part of something bigger! We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible.

Here in France, you’ll help evolve and grow our business. ESG including Climate Change, nature loss and human right pose different risks to the stability of the financial system. The requirement to identify and manage impacts from these risks results in necessary enhancement to our risk management framework, risk appetite, data infrastructure, reporting and oversight arrangements.

Through the delivery of HSBC ambition to net zero, we could also face the risk of greenwashing if we knowingly, or unknowingly mislead stakeholders on sustainability-related claims.

The proper consideration and management of ESG risks across the Bank avoid facing regulatory breach, reputational concern, and litigations.

ESG Risk team supports the HBCE Chief Risk Officer in the provision of risk expertise across strategy and framework, policy, advisory and oversight, reporting and engagement for climate, nature, social, governance risks and the risk of greenwashing. Are you able to work within a global and an evolving organisation? Do you have knowledge and experience in risk management to support the day-to-day management of ESG risks? If you answered yes to any of these questions, we want to hear from you!

What you will do :

You will work with business and function stakeholders to ensure that HBCE’s (HSBC Continental Europe) ESG risks are properly identified, assessed, managed in line with HSBC risk management practices and respond to European and local regulatory requirements. This role is an opportunity to work in an area of growing interest to regulators, investors while the wider external market with risk management practices and regulation for ESG topics are evolving globally.

In this role you will :

• Actively support the consideration of ESG risks in HBCE’s risk management activities. Your main assignments are to (but not limited to) :
• Ensure the proper identification, analysis and operationalization of ESG regulatory obligations faced by HBCE including the upcoming ESG new regulations.
• Provide support where relevant to the business and functions in delivering and embedding ESG risk in their risk management activities.
• Support the wider HSBC sustainability strategy and its implications for HBCE (Including climate risk, net zero alignment risk and greenwashing risks).
• Support / consult / engage with key stakeholders in HBCE and the HSBC Group.
• Challenge, advise and provide a second line of defence opinion on Sustainability risk matters.
• Produce ESG related risk contents for HBCE external disclosures.