Job Title: VP_Resilience Risk
- The Vice President (VP), Resilience Risk Assurance, is responsible for providing assurance over resilience risks and controls, whether operated by the first or second line of defence, across any Global Business or Function. The initial hiring scope requires specialist expertise in the following risk areas:
- Business Interruption and Incident Risk — including BCP arrangements
- Data Risk — data integrity, accuracy, completeness, lineage, governance, retention, and security
- Third-Party Risk — end-to-end coverage across all relevant aspects
- Transaction and Payment Processing Risk — including compliance with applicable regulatory requirements
- Regulatory Obligations — testing resilience risk–specific obligations to evidence alignment with regulatory expectations
- Assurance for Technology and Cyber and Facilities (availability, safety, and security) is out of scope Regulatory Reporting remains out of scope and is covered by the separate Reporting and Disclosures Assurance testing capability.
- This is a key Review Lead role within Resilience Risk Assurance. The role holder is responsible for leading a high-quality, well-coordinated, insightful and consistent approach to resilience risk testing globally.
- The role contributes to the globally standardised Assurance approach, ensuring alignment with the bank’s Risk Management Framework (RMF). The role holder is responsible for driving efficient, high-quality, end-to-end assurance work over resilience risks and controls. They will apply subject-matter expertise to assess the effectiveness of risk management activities against industry standards, country regulatory obligations and bank policy.
- The role holder is responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior and executive management within Assurance, Resilience Risk Stewards, Compliance, GCCOO, Group Internal Audit (GIA) and, where applicable, in-country Heads of Business. These relationships support the identification of key priorities and enable Assurance to align activities across the three lines of defence, helping to prevent duplication and avoid excessive or insufficient assurance coverage.
- The role holder will have direct line-management responsibility for a team of assurance professionals. This includes managing local resources and costs within agreed budgets and ensuring that appropriate resources are in place to meet Assurance objectives and deliver the Assurance Plan.
- Governance and Committee Memberships The role holder is not a member of any formal governance committees but may attend governance forums as required to present assurance outcomes, emerging risks and thematic insights.
In this role, you will:
Accountabilities for Business, Customers and Stakeholders
- Act as a key leader within the Resilience Risk Assurance team, ensuring that all standards, policies and procedures remain fit for purpose and are subject to continuous assessment.
- Provide relevant subject-matter expertise and work with the immediate team to identify appropriate review scopes and deliver assurance activities.
- Inform Risk Owners, Control Owners and Risk Stewards of the design and operational effectiveness of the controls within their area of oversight and control.
- Proactively monitor and identify key in-country and regional emerging risks and/or trends to ensure ongoing development of the assurance programme to address them.
- Ensure that assurance reviews are delivered accurately and consistently, meeting the required standards of quality and completeness to demonstrate the desired outcomes for HSBC and its regulators.
- Ensure consistent reporting and escalation of issues identified through Resilience Risk Assurance activities in a timely manner.
- Operate within the RMF, aligning for example to risk assessment methodology and prioritisation of risks, controls and issues.
- Work closely with Group Internal Audit (GIA) to understand the outcomes of their reviews and how this affects the control environment.
Customers/Stakeholders
- Build strong relationships with all internal stakeholders, adopting a cohesive approach to the execution of tasks with minimum conflict.
- Develop and maintain positive, professional relationships with key country and regional stakeholders while preserving the independence of the assurance function.
- Support senior-level consultation on issues and emerging trends identified through Resilience Risk Assurance testing and reviews.
- Contribute to consistent management information (MI) reporting on issues identified through Resilience Risk Assurance activities.
Leadership & Teamwork
Leadership (including management of professionals and managers)
- Provide subject-matter expertise to raise team standards.
- Leads by example to ensure the correct behaviour is adopted.
- Demonstrate the organisation’s core behaviours and values.
To be successful you will:
Interpersonal Skills (i.e. collaboration and networking external / internal, external / internal negotiation required and at what levels)
- Build effective relationships by communicating, influencing and negotiating with senior managers, third-party consultants, technical experts and business users across the organisation.
- Take ownership of deliverables and problems, see them through to completion, and use initiative to resolve issues while working with a diverse range of people and directing cross-functional teams.
- Strong interpersonal skills, coupled with the ability to succeed within a matrix management structure and build and maintain relationships globally.
- Highly effective communication skills (oral, written and presentational).
- Demonstrate experience of leading with unwavering and courageous integrity and doing the right thing.
- Work effectively in a fast-paced environment, with a proven ability to manage multiple deliverables simultaneously.
Knowledge, skills & experience
- Extensive knowledge of resilience risks and controls, with experience in assurance or testing activities.
- Relevant external financial services qualification
- Clear understanding of Resilience Risks within the global financial services industry
- Excellent people manager with proven people management capabilities
- Capable of building positive and resilient partnerships with key senior stakeholders
- Lateral thinker with an ability to interpret and solve complex issues.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Track record of working independently.
- Strong decision-making capability
- Strong English language skills (written and spoken)
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