HSBC Group

If you’re looking to take an exciting new direction with your HSBC career, an internal move can open the door to many opportunities, allowing you to take on a new challenge, and develop your skills. Bring your knowledge of our brand to a new role and grow yourself further.

Our Risk and Compliance function has a critical role to play in supporting, challenging, and advising across all areas of the business through establishing policy, monitoring profiles, and identifying and managing forward-looking risk and compliance. We focus on creating an environment that encourages our people to speak up and do the right thing, as well as protecting our customers, the organisation, and the integrity of the financial markets in which we operate. Already an industry-leader in many respects, we want to continue setting standards and evolving to respond to strategic changes. 

A move across the business allows you to continue to access tailored professional development opportunities, and our fantastic benefits packages

We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Sustainability Climate Risk Manager.

As the Sustainability Climate Risk Manager, you will be a leader on Climate Risk in HBUK WCRM by being a subject matter expert, ensuring successful implementation of evolving policies and meaningful input / delivery of stress tests. 

In this role, you will:

•    Act as subject matter expert on Climate Risks that are relevant to the HSBC UK Bank plc (‘HBUK’) Wholesale book.
•    Support embedding of Climate Risk (Transition & Physical) and Nature Risk into Credit Risk assessments, Credit decisions, and Portfolio Management in line with the PRA Climate Risk expectations.
•    Support CMB in implementing the sustainability agenda. Contribute to the development and delivery of HSBC’s Climate Risk strategy and actively engage CMB colleagues.
•    Review procedures, controls and systems to ensure Climate Risk is fully embedded and implement necessary changes.
•    Be responsible for helping to develop and implement HSBC’s mechanisms to model and to oversee climate risks and actively contribute to regulatory driven / internal climate scenario analysis.
•    As a Risk officer, assist Senior Risk Officer in the assessment of credit proposals.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

•    An interest in and passion for Climate related business; sustainability, transition risk and the social response to achieve future climate targets.
•    Understanding of Climate related risks (transition and physical), with the skill to think strategically and lead the way in WCRM’s approach to Climate Risk.
•    Strong knowledge of analytical concepts, methodologies and models used for stress testing and related regulatory requirements.
•    Knowledge and experience of markets, economics, and corporate finance
•    Proven track record in delivering complex and time sensitive initiatives within a global financial institution.
•    Familiarity with transaction structuring and documentation terms and controls
•    Knowledge of the HSBC Group and wholesale lending products
•    Demonstrate commercial credit skills, not only on a transaction basis but also credit process management.

The base location for this role is Birmingham – Hybrid working.

Continue to grow with our internal opportunities.

We believe that being open to a range of perspectives and cultures is vital for our business. We work hard to ensure our diverse and inclusive workplace reflects the communities we serve. We want everyone to achieve their potential – regardless of their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age. If you have a different way of seeing the world, we are interested in hearing from you.

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. Our recruitment processes are accessible to everyone - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.

We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse.

If you’d like to apply for one of our roles and need adjustments made, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com
Telephone: +44 207 832 8500.

You can find out more about the recruitment journey and what to expect by viewing our Recruitment Process FAQs in HR Direct and by clicking here (only available via internal access).