Senior ESG Risk Manager (f/m/d)

At HSBC, our purpose is opening up a world of opportunity and by joining our team, you can be part of something bigger! We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible.

Here in France, you’ll help evolve and grow our business. ESG including Climate Change, nature loss and human rights pose different risks to the stability of the financial system. The requirement to identify and manage impacts from these risks results in necessary enhancement to our risk management framework, risk appetite, data infrastructure, reporting and oversight arrangements.

Through the delivery of HSBC ambition to net zero, we could also face the risk of greenwashing if we knowingly, or unknowingly mislead stakeholders on sustainability-related claims.

The proper consideration and management of ESG risks across the Bank avoid facing regulatory breaches, reputational concerns, and litigations.

ESG Risk team supports the HBCE Chief Risk Officer in the provision of risk expertise across strategy and framework, policy, advisory and oversight, reporting and engagement for climate, nature, social, governance risks and the risk of greenwashing. Are you able to work within a global and an evolving organisation? Do you have knowledge and experience in risk management to support the day-to-day management of ESG risks? If you answered yes to any of these questions, we want to hear from you!

What you will do:

You will work with business and function stakeholders to ensure that HBCE’s (HSBC Continental Europe) ESG risks are properly identified, assessed, and managed in line with HSBC risk management practices and respond to European and local regulatory requirements. This role is an opportunity to work in an area of growing interest to regulators and investors while the wider external market with risk management practices and regulation for ESG topics are evolving globally.

In this role you will:

Actively support the consideration of ESG risks in HBCE’s risk management activities. Your main assignments are to (but not limited to):

1. Ensure the proper identification, analysis and operationalization of ESG regulatory obligations faced by HBCE including the upcoming ESG new regulations.
2. Provide support where relevant to the business and functions in delivering and embedding ESG risk in their risk management activities.
3. Support the wider HSBC sustainability strategy and its implications for HBCE (Including climate risk, net zero alignment risk and greenwashing risks).
4. Support/consult/engage with key stakeholders in HBCE and the HSBC Group.
5. Challenge, advise and provide a second line of defence opinion on Sustainability risk matters.
6. Produce ESG related risk contents for HBCE external disclosures.