Job Description

Job descriptionLocation (Country/city)- BangaloreThe Opportunity:About Legal

• Global Legal plays an important role in protecting HSBC\xe2\x80\x99s reputation, helping to safeguard the organisation by providing robust and comprehensive advice on legal issues and risks. Our lawyers advise senior management and the Global Businesses and Functions. They offer a range of legal skills, jurisdictional experience and practice specialisms across all the countries and territories in which HSBC operates.

About The Role

• The Group\xe2\x80\x99s Risk Management Framework requires a 2nd Line of Defence to act as Stewards for Legal Risks, one of the 14 primary risk types categorized by the Group. Many of the Risk Steward responsibilities are designed, coordinated, advised on and discharged by the Legal Risk Management & Assurance team (LRMA) within Group Legal. LRMA provides guidance and support to ensure that the legal, conduct and reputational risks faced by the area of coverage are identified, reported and mitigated, in line with the Risk Management Framework.

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll do:

• LRMA India has been established to best ehance and support the execution of existing and new risk management processes on behalf of stakeholders in an effective, efficient and streamlined manner. LRMA India supports across both Legal Risk Management activities and Assurance activities and is an integral part of the global LRMA team.

The role holder will:

• Lead the LRMA India team and be responsible for ensuring the team is structured, resourced and operating effectively to support Global LRMA and effective management of legal risk across the Group.
• Provide support and guidance with regard to the identification and management of legal and associated reputational/conduct risks through a deep understanding of the Group\xe2\x80\x99s Risk Management Framework and Legal Risk MI, policies and procedures.
• Oversee assurance and risk management activity conducted by the LRMA India team.
• Support the Global Head of LRMA in identifying implementation efficiencies in respect of all legal risk related activities of the LRMA India team in particular.
• Critically assess current practices/ways of working to identify opportunities to enhance, automate and simplify the delivery of MI and reporting; and support the delivery of those changes.
• Maintain and develop positive and professional working relationships with key stakeholders in the Legal Function.
• Present management information and reporting to support Legal Risk management activities, ensuring that the information is presented in formats that are user friendly and tailored to the audience.
• Analyse risk management data to underteake read across comparison across regions/geographies, identify themes, trends and/or issues which require attention and escalation
• Support the legal function in all Operational risk reviews and/or internal audit related matters.

This position can be hybrid (located in Bangalore).RequirementsWhat you will need to succeed in the role:Requirements/Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with significant post qualification experience across a wide range of disciplines.
• Demonstrable experience in major financial / legal / compliance / audit / risk management practice/operations.
• Familiarity with (non-financial) risk management concepts, frameworks and processes.
• Demonstrable experience in data management.
• Ability to influence and deliver change.
• Strong leadership skills, a self-starter, independent with good organisational skills
• Able to see the \xe2\x80\x9cbigger picture\xe2\x80\x9d and handle a diverse range of issues
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including to a senior/executive audience
• Confidence in engaging with colleagues, building effective working relationships (especially remotely), speaking up and providing challenge and feedback.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll achieve more at HSBCHSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.\xe2\x80\x9dPersonal data held by the Bank relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.***Issued By HSBC Electronic Data Processing (India) Private LTD***

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