HSBC
Senior Manager, Digital Assets and Currencies Risk
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Role: Senior Manager, Digital Assets and Currencies Risk
HSBC continues to grow and develop its portfolio of innovative digital assets and currencies (DACs) products to benefit our customers, including tokenised bonds and gold, stablecoins, and tokenised deposits, while navigating an evolving technology, industry and regulatory landscape. The DACs Risk Team within Group ERM are risk SMEs in DACs, and are responsible for ensuring a comprehensive, consistent and robust approach to Risk oversight of DACs across HSBC globally. The team supports the safe adoption of DACs by setting clear enterprise-wide expectations.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the delivery and ongoing oversight of the DACs Risk Framework, including monitoring adherence to the Framework and Risk Appetite.
- Conduct and coordinate risk assessments for new or materially changed DACs products, to ensure appropriate due diligence and post-launch monitoring.
- Coordinate engagement with the 1LOD and across key Risk areas, including conduct, technology, financial crime, legal/ regulatory functions.
- Support a consistent leadership narrative on DACs, including to industry and regulators, to enable aligned decision-making across the bank.
- Support and run Risk governance around DACs.
- Help support understanding of DACs risks across the Group, including via training and guidance.
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In This Role You’ll
- Support the embedding of the Digital Assets and Currencies (DACs) Risk Framework across the Group by helping translate policy into practical guidance, minimum control standards and usable artefacts by 1LOD teams.
- Proactively identify and assess top and emerging DACs risks through horizon scanning, impact analysis, and working with key stakeholders; recommending changes to controls, resourcing or operating model to stay within risk appetite.
- Partner with global/regional risk stewards, business leads on DACs and control owners to drive consistent consideration of DACs risks and controls, implementation, assess control effectiveness, close gaps and escalate concerns (including for material change programmes).
- Support and/or chair DACs risk working groups and wider governance, ensuring clear decisions, actions and follow-through, and represent a consolidated Risk view on DACs to senior stakeholders internally and externally.
- Coordinate regulatory and audit engagement for DACs risk with Compliance and 1LOD, ensuring issues are root-caused, remediated and closed on time—supporting the agenda set by the Global Head of DACs Risk and building stakeholder confidence.
Requirements:
- Strong understanding of DACs risk management within HSBC’s strategic and commercial context, and able to operate effectively within a Three Lines risk management model is essential.
- Solid knowledge of DACs (for example: regulatory landscape, enabling technologies such as DLT, and/or DAC product functionality).
- Sound understanding of a financial institution’s business model, products and key risk drivers.
- Proven DACs risk expertise: ability to identify, assess, monitor and strengthen controls to keep risk within appetite.
- Confident risk adviser and challenger who promotes a strong risk culture and continuous improvement.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, able to build networks and operate effectively across a multi-location team.
- Able to grasp complex technical topics quickly and translate them into clear, decision-useful insights.
- Able to provide expert advice and robust challenge, supporting effective governance and timely decision-making.
- Excellent written and verbal communication produces Executive/Board-ready papers and MI with strong quality control and explains complexity to non-technical audiences.
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Benefits:
As an HSBC employee in the UK, you’ll have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
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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.
We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
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- Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com
- Telephone: +44 207 832 8500
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