Qualifications

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

• Qualified, experienced lawyer.
• Strong leadership skills and experience of leading and managing legal teams.
• People management skills and ability to manage a high performing team with a collaborative culture.
• Experience of core commercial banking product sets; Lending, GPS and GTS.
• Experience of the UK regulatory landscape and an interest in regulatory change, an advantage.
• Experience of/ interest in digital strategy, transformation and AI, an advantage.
• Ability to be across a significant number of issues, projects and risks and to prioritise effectively.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills and the ability to make the complex seem simple.
• Commercially minded, with a strong ability to think laterally and offer solutions to business problems.
• Experience as an accomplished business partner, comfortable managing senior stakeholders.

The role is classified as a Material Risk Taker role for regulatory purposes.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC

At HSBC we look to enable our employees to better balance their work / life priorities and have the flexibility required to meet challenging needs as they progress through different life stages. Where possible we will consider the following flexible working options: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, and working from home and staggered hours. If in considering a role with HSBC, you have a need for some flexibility in your working arrangements please discuss this with the recruitment team in the early stages of the application process.

As a business operating in markets all around the world, we believe diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term health condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate. Within the work place you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has in place processes in order to avoid nepotism, which means to avoid creating circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

We want everyone to be able to fulfil their potential which is why we provide a range of flexible working arrangements and family friendly policies.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation