Finance Non -Financial Risk Lead – Group Tax

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 62 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Finance Non -Financial Risk Lead – Group Tax

Principal responsibilities

Impact on the Business/ Function

• Promote accountable risk and control decision-making based on quality data and commercial analysis.
• Enable the business to clearly, consistently and comprehensively articulate the risk profile of the business/service/process, including the integrity of processes and controls.
• Support Risk and Control Owners in identifying anomalies in control effectiveness or the aggregation of risks that may take the risk profile of the business outside of tolerance.
• Assess and promote improvements to the Accountability, Roles and Responsibilities matrix for a given set of activities.
• Support Risk Owner through proactive advice based on risk and control knowledge and insights and present risk management solutions where appropriate.
• Identify trends to anticipate future developments in the risk and control environment.
• Actively challenge poor, inefficient or excessive controls, related tasks and behaviors.
• Challenge Control Owners on the design and implementation of control monitoring to confirm it is fit for purpose.
• Drive the development and implementation of future-fit risk management frameworks, in collaboration with Risk Stewards and taking regulatory requirements into account.
• Promoting desired behaviors and a positive risk culture.
• Facilitation of the relevant Risk and Control Management Meeting, including preparation of the final pack, presentation of the 1LOD(Line of Defense) paper, production of minutes and management of actions.
• Drive NFR governance best practice within Finance, providing the information to support the key governance meetings.
• Reviewing, recording, tracking and quality assurance around Management self-identified issues to ensure compliance with internal audit criteria.
• Manage control related MI and develop a detailed understanding of the finance processes that they support.
• Ensuring Helios Data Quality including correcting illogical combinations and ensuring Control Owners continuously maintain HELIOS data.
• Effectively engage a diverse group of internal customers and stakeholders.

• Work effectively with stakeholders across Finance to understand information needs, communication channels and key issues.
• Engage stakeholders to drive action closure and ensure high quality materials for governance.
• Build excellent working relationships across Finance and other functions.

• Lead team effectively, encouraging development and learning.
• Ensure implementation of effective and efficient process and controls within the team.
• To continually reassess the design decisions and inherent operational risks.