Avp - Treasury Risk Assurance Gsc's

-Job description

**Some Careers grow faster than others.**

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 organisations in the world, with operations in 64 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 realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of AVP - Treasury Risk Assurance

**The Opportunity**:
The role supports the Capital and Liquidity Risk Senior Manager in establishing the Assurance activities within Treasury Risk. Initially, this role will provide input and execution support for the Group’s Risk Management Framework (RMF) enhancement programme and will support the roll out of a control assurance framework for Treasury risk that provides a common set of standards and definitions. This will require coordination with business and functional stakeholders at Group and regional levels and the role holder will support the Senior Manager in managing these activities once in a business-as-usual state.

This role will also support the thematic review and closure of risk and issues relating to Treasury risk arising from Management Self-Identified issues, regulatory requirements, Compliance, Internal Audit, and External Audit and ensuring that these matters are well understood by senior management and addressed on a globally consistent basis.

**What you’ll do**:
**Accountabilities for Business, Customers and Stakeholders**
- Support in the definition and scoping of the Treasury Risk Assurance function, promoting and implementing synergies and efficiencies while securing an optimal and best in class control environment.
- Challenge the first line control and risk owners to ensure that risk management activities are working effectively. This includes the following activities for Treasury Risk
- Monitor compliance of the minimum requirements applicable to the management of Treasury risk, as set out in relevant policies.
- Report on the risk and control profile, including impacts of external environment changes, emerging risks and changes to the business strategy;
- Work with the business to understand the impact of emerging risks that require changes to controls, resources and business operations to ensure they remain within appetite;
- Support definition of the Risk and Control Library, including minimum control standards, with input from Risk Owners, and Control Owners, specifying key risks and key controls and providing guidance on continuous monitoring expectations.
- Recommend Risk and Control Assessment (“RCA”) scoping, and challenge where this is not appropriately applied in the RCA; and challenge Risk and Control Owners on risk and control management, including inherent risk, residual risk, control effectiveness ratings, issues, actions and events.
- Work closely with Internal Audit (INA) to understand the outcomes of their reviews and how this affects the control environment.

**Leadership & Teamwork**
- Leadership (i.e. manages people - professionals, manager of managers,
- Leads by example to ensure the correct behaviour is adopted.
- Demonstrates core behaviors and values.
- Interpersonal Skills (i.e. collaboration and networking external / internal, external / internal negotiation required and at what levels)
- Ability to build relationships by communicating, influencing and negotiating effectively with senior managers, third party consultants, technical experts across the whole department and business users.
- Willingness to take ownership of deliverables / problems, see them through to completion and to use own initiative to resolve issues, whilst dealing 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 to do the right thing.
- Ability to work in fast-paced environment with proven ability to handle multiple outputs at one time.
Requirements

**What you will need to succeed in the role**:

- CA / MBA in Finance or Masters in similar and relevant field
- At least 5 years of work experience in a Big4 / Financial services firm in area of internal audit, assurance or treasury management
- Good working knowledge of capital reporting requirements and regulations
- Good understanding of various capital reporting metrics - Capital ratios, deductions from capital, how they are calculated
- Ability to provide independent and effective review and challenge of key Capital processes including regulatory reporting
- Good understanding of assurance techniques obtained