Asia & Middle East COO

Our GCOO organisation is critical for HSBC. This team partners closely with business teams to drive simplification and deliver exceptional customer outcomes in Asia and the Middle East region which covers 26 markets, 600+ offices and branches, and more than 140,000 employees. By strengthening our control environment and enhancing risk management, we drive operational excellence and enable the bank to deliver focused and sustainable growth in this super-region.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team.

In this role, you will:

The Assistant Data Governance Manager role is based HBCN CDAO team. The main purpose of this position is to support to manage and oversight Data Privacy and Data Storage risk and controls, and other CDAO team control related work.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist on the development, review and update of the Data Privacy and Data Storage procedures.
• Assist on providing guidance to IIWPB to conduct Data Privacy and Data Storage risk continuous monitoring according to group control requirements and local regulatory.
• Assist on continually assessing and identifying risks against Regulatory Requirements, in line with the HSBC risk management approach, ensuring they are mitigated.
• Assist on personal information protection annual assessment, provide SME support to IIWPB to mitigate the issues identified.
• Assist to cascade and oversight IIWPB to embed Global/ASP Data Privacy related projects/initiatives/control requirements, as well as regulatory requirements.
• Assist to escalate local IWPB challenges to Global/ASP/Entity when embedding Global control, Entity and regulatory requirements.
• Support CDAO team 3rd party management activities, support TPWG coordination work, to conduct regular outsourcing performance review, annual outsourcing checklist activities, etc.
• Act as CDAO team BCP coordinator.
• Support other CDAO control related management work.

To be successful in the role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Experience in financial industry enterprise-level.
• Minimum of 1-2 years of experience in a major services organization, with project management and oversight experience.
• Knowledge of industry leading data governance, data protection/security and data privacy management practices.
• Knowledge of data related government regulatory requirements and emerging trends and issues
• Ability to maintain composure and drive right outcomes under high profile business scrutiny, incorporating change management.
• Excellent numerical skills and attention to detail combined with a strong delivery focus and ability to meet aggressive timeframes with quality results.
• Excellent planning, organising and commercial skills including strong financial management capability with tenacity to drive through results.
• Strong relationship management capabilities, with great influencing skills and gravitas
• Highly effective negotiation and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated and self-managed. Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy combined with a decisive collaborative nature.
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
• Balance approach to risk management including techniques to mitigate risk.
• Ability to interact and build relationship with all levels of internal and external stakeholders.
• Operates well across cultures and in multicultural diverse work environments.
• English speaking is a must due to the high need of interaction with Global/ASP teams.

Desirable

• Relevant degree or post graduate qualification
• Proven experience of working across cultures in a global environment

You’ll achieve more at HSBC.

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