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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of
Assistant Vice President Risk and Compliance Assurance Services – Controls Assurance
Role purpose:
The Group’s Risk Management Framework (RMF) requires independent Second Line Assurance of the management of material risks and controls across HSBC’s non-financial and financial risk taxonomies. The Risk and Compliance Assurance Services (RCAS) function provides a significant proportion of this assurance.
Via its industry-leading centers of excellence, RCAS delivers innovative assurance solutions for and on behalf of HSBC’s Risk Stewards and peer assurance teams.
Controls Assurance (CA) reports into RCAS and is responsible for assuring the risk management of critical business processes and specified non-financial and financial risks across the Group, principally by testing mitigating controls. This is achieved by building out a centralized offshore capability that will deliver agile, insightful, and cost-efficient assurance. CA also provides a resource augmentation service to other assurance teams within the Bank, becoming a vehicle to effectively manage assurance costs and resources. Also, CA works together with the RCAS Automation and Analytics team to develop, test and deploy their Continuous Assurance objectives.
Main activities:
This role will be responsible for delivering assessments of key control activities of Wholesale Credit Risk (WCR) areas, in accordance with CA procedures and the assessment plan.
The role holder will be required to leading or working with a team to assess the effectiveness of assigned controls relating to the WCR in identifying and raising issues where control gaps lead to material unaddressed risks.
At a high level, the role holder will be responsible for the following:
· Map processes of assigned controls and identify the main control components within that end-to-end process.
· Document distinct control types, covering key aspects, such as remit, main processes, and handovers to other teams.
· Evaluate assigned controls for operating effectiveness, document results and raise issues as appropriate.
· Assist the Vice-president (VP)/Assistant Vice-presidents (AVP) in the delivery of assigned control assessments and ensure that assigned control assessments are accurate, effective, abide by CA procedures and templates, and meet quality control requirements.
· Ensure that assigned control assessments are delivered on time, in accordance with the CA assessment plan.
· Evaluate the root cause analysis for all material issues and remediation plans in places to ensure that they are sufficient and fit-for-purpose.
· Perform issue closure validation to ensure risks are sustainably remediated by First Line of Defense.
· Support the VPs/AVPs as required, including creating customized testing methodology and testing templates.
· As required, on a rotating basis, support regional Compliance Assurance teams to execute their assurance obligations through remote execution of local reviews and in line with standards set by the CA team commissioning the work (staff augmentation).
· Effectively communicate with local stakeholders during the process of review work.