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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 risk is understood, assessed, governed, and mitigated through effective controls and robust risk management practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead data risk identification and assessment, evaluating risks from data quality, lineage, privacy, misuse, inaccurate reporting, 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 by defining control objectives, minimum control requirements, evidence standards, and risk-to-control mappings.
• Ensure alignment to HSBC policy, standards, and non-financial risk frameworks.
• Provide oversight of control monitoring arrangements by challenging the sufficiency and completeness of KRIs, KPIs, and other monitoring 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 by reviewing testing plans, findings, and thematic issues.
• Ensure actions are tracked through 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
• Non-financial risk
• Operational risk
• Controls management
• Data governance
• Data management concepts
• Risk assessment
• Control design
• Control monitoring
• Issue management
• Risk management frameworks
• Policy and standards development
• Audit support
• Regulatory reviews
• Assurance activity

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 a generous employer contribution

About the Company

• HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with a network that covers more than 50 countries and territories.
• We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, 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.
• At HSBC, we’re 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.