Chief Risk Officer

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Principal Responsibilities:

The Chief Risk Officer is responsible for leading the Risk function to identify, assess, monitor and make timely and measured judgments on all current and potential future risks faced, in order to protect the employees, assets and reputation of the Group and to grow shareholder value and profitability.

The Chief Risk Officer is responsible for the following risk disciplines:
• Credit Risk & Market Risk
• FCC & RC Risk
• Risk Strategy (including Risk Appetite, Business Model Risk)
• Operational Risk & Internal Controls
• Reputation Risk (including Product Suitability)
• People Risk
• Risk Systems/Projects
• Security & fraud including Business Contingency Planning

Control
• Maintain HSBC internal control standards and address audit points and/or any issues raised by Regulators and Senior Management in a timely manner.
• Foster a compliance culture and implement Group Compliance Policy by managing compliance risk in liaison with the Local Compliance Officer, ensuring adequate compliance resources are in place and training is provided, and optimizing relations with regulators
• Adherence to processes and controls to identify and mitigate risks and ensures timely escalation of control issues and reputation risks.

Creating and sustaining awareness of operational risk and minimize the likelihood of it occurring including its identification, assessment, mitigation and control, loss identification and reporting in accordance with the Group Operations FIM