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HSBC
HSBC

Assistant Climate Risk Manager HBCE, Nature Risks - HSBC

Permanent contract
Courbevoie
Salary: Not specified
No remote work

HSBC
HSBC

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Job description

  • Key activities and decision-making areas:
  • Impact on the Business:
  • Support the development, assessment, and implementation of HSBC Continental Europe’s approach to nature-related Risk
  • Be an Environmental Risk subject matter expert, responding to ESG Risk queries from colleagues across the region
  • Contribute to the definition and the implementation of environmental risks KPI with lines of business, Risk and ESG DAO teams
  • Ensure effective communication and understanding of relevant changes across key stakeholder
  • Support the HBCE ESG & Climate risks senior manager in the implementation of the physical Risk stress tests and of the new regulatory requirements related to the public disclosures / non-financial reporting of environmental risks, coordinating the actions across lines of business, Finance, Risk and IT
  • Customers / Stakeholders:
  • Engage with internal stakeholders, initiate working groups, obtaining required inputs and ensuring progress is well understood
  • Participate to French and European industry working groups dedicated to environmental risks (e.g., Fédération Bancaire Française, pilot for HSBC the inter-banks projects related to those risks such as TNFD)
  • Support the lead HBCE ESG & Climate Risks in the realisation of regular update of HBCE Risk Committee, the HBC Risk Management Meeting, the HBCE Climate and ESG Risk governance committee
  • Communicate and train on the nature-related risk framework HBCE stakeholders and ensure that the framework is understood and deploy across business/functions
  • Support the materiality assessment of Environmental risk across bank activities including financial and non-financial risks areas
  • Respond to the questions and requests from the regulators and provide them with regular updates on environmental risks topics
  • Teamwork:
  • Support the delivery of a HSBC Continental Europe approach to Climate & Environmental Risks across the HBCE perimeter, working with a range of stakeholders in own team and other areas.
  • Develop subject matter expertise on Climate & ESG Risks
  • Operational Effectiveness & Governance:
  • Ensure that Malta, Germany and HSBC Continental Europe regulatory requirements in term of environmental risk management are aligned.
  • Review processes and procedures to ensure risk requirements are met
  • Typical Targets and Measures
  • Impact on the Business:
  • Delivery of Environmental Risk framework and activities on time and within budget
  • Evidence of working collaboratively with other areas
  • Provide all necessary analyses, briefings and documents in a timely manner and to satisfactory standard
  • Proactive identification of material issues and themes and remedial action proposed/undertaken to ensure addressed
  • Customers / Stakeholders:
  • Positive feedback received
  • Deadlines met
  • Teamwork:
  • Delivery of all required activities on time and within budget
  • Evidence of excellent collaboration
  • Positive feedback received from team members and other stakeholders
  • Operational Effectiveness & Governance:
  • Evidence of excellent collaboration
  • Positive feedback received from team members and other stakeholders
  • FIM guidelines followed
  • MAJOR CHALLENGES:
  • Define a HBCE Nature-related framework which comply with the Group Risk Management Framework and the industry wide approach in term of environmental risk management.
  • Disseminate the Nature related risk framework across HBCE, Germany and Malta and ensure its embeddedness across all risk types and within risk management practices.
  • Working across GBM, MSS and CMB, responding to different risk impacts, without diluting focus.
  • Understanding and communicating priorities with major stakeholders.
  • ROLE CONTEXT:
  • The role will be part of the Continental Europe Enterprise Risk Management team and will support the activities of the Lead HBCE ESG & Climate Risks regarding the integration of Nature-related Risk into our Risk Management practices.
  • The job holder will work closely with other teams, in particular within Global and Europe Risk, Finance, businesses and respective functions to deliver required changes
  • The Nature-related Risk activities are managed in parallel of the Group Climate Risk programme due to deadlines set up by the European and French regulators which are ahead of the UK regulators deadlines. It will be expected that the job holder will collaborate and share best practice with Group and Regional colleagues.
  • MANAGEMENT OF RISK:
  • The job holder will ensure the fair treatment of our customers is at the heart of everything we do, both personally and as an organisation.
  • The jobholder will continually reassess the financial and non-financial risks associated with the role and inherent in the business, taking account of changing economic or market conditions, legal and regulatory requirements, operating procedures and practices, management restructurings, and the impact of new technology.
  • The jobholder will ensure internal Policies are always adhered to, and in particular, that any changes being implemented are aligned to evolving Climate and Nature-related Risks policies.
  • OBSERVATION OF INTERNAL CONTROLS:
  • Adherence to the FIM Policies

Preferred experience

  • Knowledge:
  • Knowledge of ESG and / or Sustainability Risk is preferred but not required
  • Detailed knowledge of HSBC’s risk and control framework, including a good understanding of the principal risk types
  • Experience and understanding on regulatory landscape
  • Understanding and experience of policies, systems and processes used for credit approval and credit management
  • Knowledge and experience of the use and application of risk appetite tools
  • Experience:
  • Proven track record of delivering projects within a team, delivering results on time and on budget, and managing own time effectively.
  • Experience of influencing stakeholders including senior management
  • Experience of leading the development of data solutions and reporting.
  • Experience of working with business and IT to develop and deliver strategic change programs
  • Skills:
  • Leadership skills
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills
  • Quantitative analysis skills
  • Ability to work with individuals across different business lines and functions
  • Self-motivated, customer focussed with an ability to solve complex problems

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