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About the Role
Lead the oversight, governance, and management of data risk across Global Private Banking and Wealth and Premier. Ensure data-related risks are identified, escalated, and managed effectively through robust controls and risk management practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead data risk identification and assessment, evaluating risks from data quality, lineage, privacy, misuse, reporting inaccuracies, weak governance, or ineffective controls.
- Define inherent and residual risk positions and recommend appropriate treatment actions.
- Own and oversee the data risk and control framework, defining control objectives, minimum requirements, evidence standards, and risk-to-control mappings.
- Ensure alignment with HSBC policy, standards, and non-financial risk frameworks.
- Provide oversight of control monitoring, challenging the sufficiency of KRIs, KPIs, and other mechanisms.
- Review breaches, trends, and emerging themes requiring escalation or remediation.
- Lead risk and control governance and escalation forums for material data risk topics.
- Maintain decision logs, action tracking, and escalation records.
- Support and oversee control testing and assurance outcomes, reviewing plans, findings, and thematic issues.
- Ensure actions from testing and assurance are tracked to closure.
- Produce and/or lead risk and control reporting and governance packs using Helios / NFR and related management information.
- Highlight material themes, overdue actions, control weaknesses, breaches, and emerging risks for senior governance forums.
Requirements
- Strong experience in data risk, non-financial risk, operational risk, controls management, data governance, or related disciplines within financial services.
- Sound understanding of data management concepts including data governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, critical data elements, stewardship, data retention, and data security.
- Experience in risk assessment, control design, control monitoring, issue management, governance, and escalation within a regulated environment.
- Good knowledge of risk management frameworks, policy and standards development, and the practical application of control requirements across business and technology processes.
- Experience supporting audit, regulatory reviews, and assurance activity, including preparation of risk and control narratives and evidence coordination.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret policy and risk appetite and translate these into practical thresholds, controls, governance, and management information.
Skills
- Data risk management
- Non-financial risk management
- Operational risk management
- Controls management
- Data governance
- Risk assessment
- Control design
- Control monitoring
- Issue management
- Governance and escalation
- Risk management frameworks
- Policy and standards development
- Audit support
- Regulatory review support
- Assurance activity support
- Risk and control narratives
- Evidence coordination
- Data management concepts
- Data quality
- Metadata
- Data lineage
- Critical data elements
- Data stewardship
- Data retention
- Data security
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Tailored professional development opportunities
- Competitive pay and benefits package
- Private healthcare for all UK-based employees
- Enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support
- Contributory pension scheme with generous employer contribution
About the Company
- HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with a network covering more than 50 countries and territories.
- The company aims to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and helping people fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.
Equal Opportunity
- Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve.
- HSBC is 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.
- If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk via hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com.