Senior Sustainability Policy Manager

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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.

Group Reputational & Sustainability Risk (GRSR) is focused on managing those risks across the Group in support of the Group Chief Risk & Compliance Officer. The risk management challenges and opportunities presented by our reputational and sustainability agenda specific to ESG are emerging, evolving rapidly and likely to only increase in scope and scale. The Group Reputational & Sustainability Risk team plays a vital part in enabling the Bank to meet its Sustainability commitments in the right manner, which is a core element of the Bank's strategy. The team functions at a global level, undertaking consistent and efficient identification, assessment, and management of reputational and sustainability risks.

We are currently seeking a high calibre individual to join the team in the role of Senior Sustainability Policy Manager

The primary purpose will be to protect the Group's global brand and profitability from climate, sustainability risk, and from related reputational risk, incurred by supporting customers or activities which could have adverse impacts on people or on the environment

This is an extremely pivotal role where you will get the opportunity to shape HSBC's sustainability strategy and become an expert in this field.

In this role, you will:

• Provide proactive Second Line of Defence risk stewardship for climate and sustainability risk, including research, drafting, execution, supporting the implementation and monitoring of policies and associated reporting


• Ensure a client focused approach is taken to policy and process design and ensure a robust control environment to support policy compliance


• Contribute to HSBC's evolving Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risk agenda, with particular focus on environmental, climate, sustainability and human rights risks


• Work with other stakeholders in the development and execution of activities aligned with the identification and mitigation of such risks


• Support Head of Policy with review, development, update or writing of new policies applicable to Global Business (GB) and Commercial Banking (CMB) customers and other business areas


• Provide close collaboration with its 3 main stakeholders: Global Banking and Markets; Commercial Banking; and Risk
  
  To be successful in this role you should meet the following:


• Deep understanding of sustainability risks and/or policies is required with experience in CMB or GBM preferred


• Understanding of control environments and Helios usage and a good grasp of risk management frameworks, the lines of defence and an appreciation of environmental, climate change and human rights issues with a good understanding of the associated risks across different industries


• Ability to write concise, simple but effective polices and / or procedures on issues that may contain many underlying technical complexities


• Strong analytical skills and an attention to detail with an ability to understand, consolidate and distil diverse and complex sources of information


• Confident in your approach with excellent communication and negotiation skills
  
  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.