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. 

We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Economist, Scenario Analysis and Implementation.

Group Risk Economics has a vacancy in its team for an economist who will play a pivotal role in scenario review, governance and implementation. The successful candidate will support Forecasting, Scenario Generation and review Impairment Reporting, analytics and other related credit risk processes.

In this role, you will:

•     Review scenario forecasts, economic analysis and other documentation for impairment and stress testing.
•    Confidently liaise with senior stakeholders on matters related to the economic cycle, forecasts, risks and scenarios. 
•    Source economic data and produce innovative charts and graphs to summarise economic relationships.
•    Conduct research to contribute to the production of economic scenarios for use in impairment forecasting, planning and enterprise-wide stress testing.
•    Be involved in governance cycles focusing on the banks senior risk committees.

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

•     Must have prior experience as an Economist within a financial institution.
•    Experience in economic forecasting, scenario generation and scenario review analysis.
•    Understanding of global macroeconomic issues and major economic risks for the design and assessment of macroeconomic scenarios. 
•    Capability and experience in liaising with senior stakeholders on matters related to economic analysis.
•    Thorough drafting skills, demonstrating ability to pull PowerPoint presentations together. 
•    Experience and knowledge on climate risk and climate scenarios.

The base location for this role is London / Hybrid.

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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).