Global Nfr Lead Asset Services and Clearing

-Job description

**Why join us?**

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 62 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realize their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of **Global Non-Financial Risk Lead - Asset Servicing and Clearing & Settlements Utility**.
- The Global NFR Lead role will be accountable for the leadership, management and delivery of the global Markets Securities and Services ( MSS ) Operations risk strategy & culture for the Asset Servicing and Clearing & Settlements Utility business line. The role holder will be responsible for implementing strong risk management processes and frameworks, proactively supporting the Operations business line within risk appetite.
- The role holder will lead their global function delivering exceptional overall governance, mobilization and management of a robust and effective control framework across a diverse Operations team, with a significant global footprint. 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, they will drive the delivery of the MSS Operations strategy for risk reduction.
- The role holder will work closely with MSS Operations ExCo, Markets Front Office and Securities Services business sectors and colleagues in MSS NFR team to maintain a forward looking function and will support their business line across various front-to -back 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 NFR review for key strategic change programmes within their remit, ensuring that optimum control design is achieved and transformation risk is minimized.
- The role holder will proactively engage with the 2Line of Defense ( 2LoD ) and 3Line of Defense ( 3LoD ) teams, acting as the key interface to MSS Operations, and supporting Operations management in setting 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 challenge processes and polices within their business line is critical for this role, along with role model leadership skills to support and enhance the speak up culture.

**What you’ll do**:
**Management of Risk**
- All activities to be undertaken in accordance with the Operational Risk Management Framework (ORMF).
- The jobholder will continually reassess the operational risks associated with the MSS businesses, taking account of changing economic or market conditions, legal and regulatory requirements, operating procedures and practices, management restructuring, and the impact of new technology. This will be achieved by ensuring all actions take account of the likelihood of operational risk occurring and addressing any areas of concern with the appropriate persons and/or department in line with risk appetite.

**Observation of Internal Controls**
- The role holder will adhere to, and be able to demonstrate adherence to, internal controls and will implement the Group compliance policy by adhering to all relevant processes/procedures
- The jobholder will implement the Group compliance policy by adhering to all relevant processes/procedures. The term ‘compliance’ embraces all relevant financial services laws, rules and codes with which the business has to comply
- 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. Through the implementation the Global AML, Sanctions and ABC Policies, supporting Guidance, and Line of Business Procedures the jobholder will make informed decisions in accordance with the core principles of HSBC's Financial Crime Risk Appetite

**Operational Effectiveness & Control**
- Establish and maintain a robust and efficient control environment across MSS Operations to ensure sound operational, financial and project management and compliance with HSBC poli