Especialista em Controles Internos

The Internal Controls Manager partners with all line of businesses and functions and is responsible for ensuring effective and pro-active management of non-financial risks. The role seats within the 1^st Line of Defence and has a broad remit and responsibilities, including:

• Proactive management of a sound, sustainable and strategic risk and control framework with a focus on enabling the business to grow within risk appetite while maintaining robust risk governance, dynamic risk assessment, effective control, and good conduct across all line of businesses and functions.

• Work as a trusted advisor to senior management on non-financial risks, including Financial Crime, Regulatory Compliance, Resilience Risk, Third Party Risk, among others.

• Establish strong relationship with senior leaders to effectively collaborate and shape the overall conduct and control strategy for the businesses.  Provide insight and though leadership to senior management and governance committee through identification of top and emerging risks, thematic control issues and relevant management information (MI).

• Work as the main point of contact in relation to the reviews performed by 2^nd and 3^rd line of defenses and provide all support to auditees and reviewers.

• Partner with Regional Control Officers, Assurance areas and Internal Audit to maintain senior management aware of independent reviews and impacts to the country to pro-actively manage non-financial risks.

• Monitor the entity internal control environment through a set of key risk indicators encompassing all line of businesses and functions;

• Provide support and training to control owners to ensure controls are properly monitored and control weaknesses timely escalated at relevant risk management forums;

• Act as main point of contact in regards to Group programs directly synced with non-financial risks, including Enterprise Wide Risk Assessment (EWRA) and Non-Financial Risk Optimization (NFRO).

• Produce/provide material to relevant risk management committees including country Risk Management Meeting (RMM), Non-Financial Risk Forum (NFR Forum), Markets & Markets Treasury Business & Control Committee (BCC), Audit Committee.

• Active monthly monitoring of issues & actions raised by the 3 lines of defenses, external bodies and/or regulators to adequate and timely closure preventing past due issues&actions.

• Provide support to line of businesses and functions in raising 1LoD findings as well as guidance regarding to root-cause analysis and corrective action plans.

The role holder will ideally have knowledge and experience in the following areas:

• Strong knowledge and understanding of the local financial industry - regulatory, political, competitor and market.

• Demonstrated business knowledge, ideally experience of leading a complex business unit within a global banking environment.

• Broad and deep product knowledge across banking or extensive cross-functional experience within a global bank.

• Knowledge  and understanding of main banking line of businesses and products, including FX, Global Trade & Receivable Finance, Global Liquidity & Cash Management, Global Banking, Markets as well as supporting areas such as Operations, Legal, Finance, Credit, HR.

• Proven experience in non-financial risk/operational risk/internal control within a complex organization.

• Ability to develop thematic reviews in unknown businesses/processes by  means of interviews and understanding of local regulatory requirements and applicable policies.

• Good knowledge of existing and emerging banking technologies. 

• Practical experience of major business transformation with large scale project management experience.

• Conversant in dealing with regulatory authorities, 2^nd and 3^rd line of defenses at a senior level.

• Demonstrable experience dealing with and influencing internal and external senior stakeholders (ExCo members, Board, CEOs) and regulators.

• A track record of building trusted partnership with all levels in the organization, leading individuals with no direct line of reporting.

• Excellent business judgement and a willingness to exercise it.

• Professional demeanour and possess considerable presence, impact and gravitas; able to command respect within the organization.

• A ‘completer-finisher’.  Self-starting and results-focused.  Proactive, energetic and resilient individual with a ‘can-do’ approach;

• Capable of inspiring and influencing colleagues both upwards and downwards and internally and externally.

• Able to design and implement an intelligence-led vision, technology based non-financial risk for the future, creating solutions to challenging problems.

• Proven capability of exceptional critical thinking, creativity, and innovation in developing new concepts, theories, applications, or products to address the most complex and strategic issues facing HSBC, resulting in improved commercial outcomes.

• Acting as the highest level authority and source of technical/scientific knowledge. 

• Excellent people management skills with proven motivation and leadership skills.

• Strong interpersonal skills; be an effective communicator and possess strength of character.