Senior Vice President, Treasury Risk Management

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Global Risk is a thriving and expert risk management function supporting HSBC globally with all aspects of risk management. All parts of the Global Risk team use their skills, insight and integrity to handle established threats and those they see emerging, acting to protect and enable HSBC to deliver sustainable growth.

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled individual to join our Treasury Risk Management team as a Senior Vice President, focusing on Liquidity Risk.

As our Senior Vice President, Treasury Risk Management:

Principal Responsibilities

Set the liquidity risk framework and standards

• Define and maintain the liquidity risk appetite, key metrics, limits, and escalation triggers (aligned to the firm’s overall Risk Appetite Framework).


• Own and maintain liquidity risk policies, methodologies, and minimum control standards for 1LoD to implement.


• Ensure consistency with Group frameworks while allowing for local regulatory requirements.

Provide independent oversight and challenge of Liquidity 1LOD

• Provide effective, evidence-based challenge to funding and liquidity strategies, balance sheet plans, and product initiatives.


• Review assumptions used by 1LoD (e.g., deposit stability, drawdowns on committed facilities, intraday liquidity needs, HQLA monetization) and challenge where they’re unsupported.


• Assess whether liquidity risk is being identified, measured, monitored, and controlled appropriately.

Review and challenge stress testing and scenario analysis

• Review liquidity stress scenarios (idiosyncratic, market-wide, combined, less than well capitalized or other internal scenarios;).


• Challenge scenario severity, behavioural assumptions, management actions, and model outputs.


• Ensure stress results inform risk appetite, contingency planning, funding strategy and recovery and resolution planning.

Monitor liquidity risk profile, provide strong governance and support Senior Management

• Oversee daily/weekly/monthly monitoring of liquidity metrics and early warning indicators


• Independently confirm limit utilisation, breaches, and emerging risks; ensure timely escalation and remediation tracking.


• Perform independent data analysis to derive insights on emerging liquidity risks


• Support governance forums with concise recommendations and decision-ready insights.


• Ensure key controls are designed effectively and tested (including around intraday liquidity and collateral), issues are documented, owned and closed with appropriate oversight.

Oversee contingency funding plan (CFP)

• Review and challenge the CFP, including triggers, playbooks, roles/responsibilities, and communication plans.


• Validate feasibility of management actions (asset monetisation, central bank access, collateral mobility) and operational readiness.


• Participate in CFP testing/table-top exercises and track lessons learned.

Engage with regulators, auditors and industry bodies

• Provide 2LoD oversight of compliance with liquidity regulations and supervisory expectations (e.g., LCR/NSFR, local liquidity regimes, reporting standards).


• Support responses to regulatory and audit requests, exams — ensuring accuracy and consistency.


• Monitor regulatory change and assess impacts on the liquidity risk profile and controls.

Promote strong risk culture

• Promote strong risk culture: transparency, timely escalation, and “no surprises” governance.


• Coach 1LoD on expectations and good practice while maintaining independence.


• Partner with other Risk functions, Treasury, Finance, Business lines to arrive at outcomes which are for the benefit of HSBC and its stakeholders.

Requirements

• Extensive commercial experience in Treasury Risk or Treasury in HSBC or a comparably large bank or financial institution.


• Deep understanding of liquidity risk management principles, frameworks, and methodologies, including quantitative and qualitative risk assessment techniques.


• Strong understanding of the US banking regulation surrounding Liquidity and other Treasury areas.


• Strong commercial acumen with ability to assess cross-functional dependencies and impact.


• Proficiency in financial modelling, stress testing, and risk analytics.


• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively communicate risk insights and recommendations to senior management and executive-level audiences.


• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.


• Strong analytical skills with great attention to detail.


• Consistently and eagerly work on enhancing and upgrading his/her skills leveraging internal and external sources.


• Possess strong work ethic and works well in the team environment


• Whilst not essential, firsthand experience with Python, AI and data visualization tools (Qlik sense, Tableau etc.) will be looked upon favorably.


• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative area or equivalent at minimum; Graduate degree a plus.

As an HSBC employee, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities to ensure you have the right skills for today and tomorrow. We offer a competitive pay and benefits package including a robust Wellness Hub, all in a welcoming and inclusive work environment. You will be empowered to drive HSBC’s engagement with the communities we serve through an industry-leading volunteerism policy, a generous matching gift program, and a comprehensive program of immersive Sustainability and Climate Change Initiatives. You’ll want to join our Employee Resource Groups as they play a central part in life at HSBC, including the development of our employees and networking inside and outside of HSBC. We value difference. We succeed together. We take responsibility. We get it done. And we want you to help us build the bank of the future!

Your final fixed pay offer will depend on the candidate and several variables, including but not limited to, role responsibilities, skill set, depth of experience and education, licensing/certification requirements, internal relativity, and specific work location.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, race, national origin, ethnicity, disability or medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran service, religion, creed, sex, gender, pregnancy, childbirth, caregiver status, marital status, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other trait protected by applicable law.