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 organization, 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 expert individual to join this team in the role of Global Head of FX Traded Risk.  As the Global Head of FX Traded Risk you will direct the effective identification, assessment, management, monitoring and mitigation of market risk and counterparty credit risk in FX of Global Markets & Securities Services (MSS) businesses. 

You will oversee and lead constructive challenge through detailed understanding of the FX businesses, their strategies, regulation, commercial and risk drivers. The role involves considerable interaction with senior HSBC management and regulators across countries and jurisdictions.

In this role, you will:

•    Act as the key point of contact on all FX traded risk globally and act as an active and engaged member of the Global Traded Risk and its leadership team, supporting the effective management of FX traded risks.
•    Support a team of risk managers (second line of defense). You will be responsible for leading the SLOD activities in traded & treasury risk areas and interpreting regulation in conjunction with other stakeholders.
•    Develop risk management policies, limits, stress testing capabilities, analytics, system support and reporting infrastructure.
•    Monitor risk environment and HSBC risks exposures vs. established limits, investigate risk events.
•    Establish strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the business, advise and provide constructive challenge to the first line of defense.

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

•    Strong knowledge and understanding of derivative markets, Treasury products and relevant traded markets. 
•    Extensive experience working across all levels of the organization to understand cross-functional linkages and interdependencies, as well as the implications of risk at both a strategic level and at the business unit level. 
•    Has developed a high level of professional competence which helps to determine solutions around appropriate risk measures, risk processes, risk monitoring and management. 
•    Ability to form effective relationships and achieve influence at the most senior level in the organization, and be able to evidence experience of this. 
•    Strong leadership and management ability including ability to lead change, and to develop and retain critical talent.

The base location for this role is London and with a hybrid working pattern.

Continue to grow with our internal opportunities.

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).