Head of Risk Framework and Governance, CCO BRR

HSBC Holdings plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC is seeking a senior governance and risk leader to head the Risk Framework and Governance team within GCOO Business Risk in London. You will ensure risk input to Board and senior forums, embed RMF changes, and drive policy adoption and BIRO activity across GCOO, delivering resilience regulatory requirements and executive-ready materials.

You will collaborate with the Group COO and senior stakeholders to present a plain-English view of risk exposure, priorities, and emerging threats, enabling

Qualifications

• Extensive experience preparing Board-level papers and briefing notes for senior executives, including Group ExCo members.
• Proven ability to operate at senior executive level and influence decision-making up to OpCo.
• Strong knowledge of HSBC’s governance landscape and Business Risk and NFR teams.
• Deep understanding of risk management framework and impact of changes on GCOO.
• Evidence of managing senior risk meeting governance, including agendas, materials, actions and outcomes.
• Ability to challenge with evidence-based reasoning and timely escalation.
• Knowledge of reporting quality, aggregation logic, lineage, thresholds and indicators.
• Familiarity with Helios data and reference data concepts.

Responsibilities

• Own production of risk and control papers and briefing notes for the Group COO for meetings such as GRMM, GRC, GAC, GTO, Holdings Board and regulatory meetings.
• Shape content so senior executives can make clear, timely decisions on risk exposure, emerging threats and management priorities.
• Govern the end-to-end cadence for GCOO-owned risk meetings (RCMMs) and the Accountability Review Panel.
• Embed RMF changes across GCOO, ensuring impacts are assessed, enacted and sustained in day-to-day controls.
• Oversee policy and procedure change assessments and embedding, acting as Group COO delegate for approvals.
• Manage BIRO activity across GCOO, including cyber initiatives, incident management and training.
• Deliver Group-level Operational Resilience regulatory requirements including Self-Assessment and market consultation papers.
• Strengthen efficiency and quality by adopting new ways of working and AI tooling in governance reporting and delivery.

Job description

Ready to shape key risk governance across GCOO?

Why HSBC

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. Guided by our purpose of opening up a world of opportunity, our ambition is to become the world’s most trusted bank globally, putting customers at the heart of everything we do.

The Role

This role heads the Risk Framework and Governance team within GCOO Business Risk in London. You’ll be accountable for how GCOO provides risk and control input into Board and senior management forums including preparing risk and control-specific papers and briefing notes for the Group COO. The role sets the operating rhythm for GCOO’s risk meeting architecture and ensures Risk Management Framework (RMF) and policy and procedure changes are properly assessed then embedded across GCOO with the Group COO delegation to approve policy and procedure changes. You’ll also oversee BIRO activity across GCOO including partnering on key cyber initiatives incident management and training. A key outcome is delivering Group-level Operational Resilience regulatory requirements including the Group Level Self-Assessment and market consultation papers. Success looks like clear decision-ready materials, timely escalation, and a plain-English view of aggregate risk exposure emerging threats and management priorities.

What you'll be doing

• Own production of risk and control papers and briefing notes for the Group COO including GRMM, GRC, GAC, GTO, Holdings Board, and regulatory meetings
• Shape content so senior executives can make clear timely decisions on risk exposure emerging threats and management priorities
• Govern the end-to-end cadence for GCOO-owned risk meetings including GCOO RCMM, BRR RCMM, Shared Services RCMM, Procurement and Real Estate RCMM, and the Accountability Review Panel
• Embed RMF changes across GCOO ensuring impacts are assessed enacted and sustained in day-to-day controls
• Oversee assessment enactment and embedding of policy and procedure changes across GCOO acting as the Group COO delegate for approvals
• Manage BIRO activity across GCOO including partnership on key cyber initiatives incident management and training
• Deliver Group-level Operational Resilience regulatory requirements including the Group Level Self-Assessment and market consultation papers
• Strengthen efficiency and quality by adopting new ways of working and AI tooling across governance reporting and delivery

What we're looking for

• Demonstrate substantial experience preparing Board-level papers and briefing notes for senior executives including Group ExCo members
• Show proven experience operating at senior executive level and influencing decision-making up to OpCo
• Bring strong knowledge of HSBC’s governance landscape and key Business Risk and NFR teams
• Apply deep understanding of the risk management framework and how changes impact GCOO
• Evidence effective management of senior risk meeting governance including agendas materials actions and outcomes
• Apply evidence-based challenge with timely escalation and clear decision-making
• Demonstrate capability assessing reporting quality aggregation logic lineage thresholds and indicators
• Bring strong knowledge of Helios including limitations reporting aggregation and reference data

Board-ready risk decisions

This role puts you at the centre of how GCOO prepares senior decision-makers for risk discussions and regulatory engagement. The focus is on producing clear Board-ready papers and briefings shaping governance outcomes and ensuring framework and policy change lands consistently across GCOO. You’ll partner closely with the Group COO and senior stakeholders to provide a plain-English view of risk exposure and priorities. If you want to build governance that supports better decisions at pace we’d welcome your application.

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, socio-economic background 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.

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