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Global Legal plays an important role in protecting HSBC’s reputation, helping to safeguard the organisation by providing robust and comprehensive advice on legal issues and risks. Our lawyers advise senior management and the Global Businesses and Functions. They offer a range of legal skills, jurisdictional experience and practice specialisms across all the countries and territories in which HSBC operates.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Deputy General Counsel, IWPB Asia.

About The Role

The Deputy General Counsel provides expert and professional legal advice, guidance and business-partnering support to the Asia IWPB business to ensure that the legal and reputational risks are identified, reported and mitigated and that the business strategy can be delivered safely and sustainably.

This role will report to the Global General Counsel for the IWPB business and the General Counsel for Asia and Middle East.

Responsibilities

• Leading and managing (not necessarily through direct reporting lines) the Asia IWPB Legal team and working closely with the General Counsel, IWPB, as well as global product leads for WPS, AMG and Insurance to deliver on IWPB strategy and manage/mitigate legal and reputational risks arising for IWPB in Asian markets.
• To act as a member of the Global Legal wider leadership team, contributing as required on global issues and leadership actions
• To be the accountable lawyer to the Asia & Middle East GC & Global IWPB GC on all material legal issues that the business faces
• Advising relevant Senior Management including the Head of IWPB Asia on material legal and reputational risks
• Evaluating and responding to changes in legal and regulatory requirements as they arise
• Setting relevant policies and procedures for the relevant area of coverage to ensure that Legal's role in the second line of defence can be executed
• To be the principal legal adviser and relationship manager for Legal at senior management and governance forums for the Asia IWPB business, ensuring there is integrated legal support with other global business and function legal teams
• To be the principle legal adviser on IWPB transactions, projects or initiatives focused on Asia.
• To be the principle legal adviser on the facilitation of cross border work and the enablement of key market corridors involving Asia e.g. Middle East, Europe etc.
• Provide and manage counsel for assigned areas of responsibility, including matters that are complex or have potential for legal, financial and / or reputational impact
• Managing external and internal legal costs within Resource and Financial Planning limits
• Be a trusted legal advisor and strategic partner to support business objectives, strategy and initiatives e.g. the rollout of digital platforms supporting premier and wealth solutions in Asia.
• Share skills, experience, best practice and know-how with the Legal team and to proactively identify legal risks trends and increase legal risk awareness within the business
  
  

Requirements/Qualifications

• Qualified Lawyer, expected to have significant hands-on experience in the wealth and international affluent banking product space.
• Significant experience regarding the Cross Border requirements for running wealth and private banking platforms and good understanding of the Asian markets in which IWPB operates.
• Significant experience managing a specialized team of lawyers and paraprofessionals
• Strong leadership skills
• Lateral thinking/problem solving ability
• Ability to prioritize workloads in terms of legal risk and commercial consideration.
• Maintain knowledge of HSBC Group operations and policies.
• Up-to-date knowledge of developments in the financial services sector
• Ability to think independently being mindful of maintaining an appropriate balance between management and mitigation of legal risk and business efficacy.
• Deepening knowledge of areas of specialty with ability to take a view as to how law is developing in order to advise client and reach a solution.
• Enhanced relationship with higher levels of management inspiring confidence of customers/stakeholders
• Ability to navigate multiple stakeholders with competing priorities and under time pressure
• Strong oral and written communication and inter-personal skills
• Up-to-date knowledge of developments in the financial services sector
• Self starter, independent with good organizational skills

Capabilities Profile (HSBC Global Legal Core Expectations)

Leadership

• • Vision and customer-centricity: Inspire others to deliver HSBC's ambition to be the most trusted bank globally, putting customers at the heart of everything we do
  • High performance and accountability: Hold self and others accountable for delivering high performance with care– giving and seeking honest feedback, coaching others to grow, and taking personal responsibility for continuous learning
  • Leading through change: Lead proactively and effectively through change with resilience and pace, bringing curiosity, first-principles thinking, and a focus on simplicity; being outcome-focused and taking end-to-end ownership of the full issue with an enterprise-wide view

Collaboration & Teamwork

• • Cross-functional collaboration and strong partnerships: Work across teams, regions, and businesses, breaking down silos to set and deliver good outcomes
  • Healthy and inclusive culture: Build trust and psychological safety, fostering an inclusive culture where diverse perspectives and open challenge are encouraged to achieve better outcomes
  • Solve and succeed together: Connect across the enterprise to identify issues and deliver shared solutions, whilst recognizing success and the contributions of the wider team

Commercial

• • Business partnering: Work closely with the business to provide advice that is pragmatic and takes account of commercial drivers
  • Customer centricity and commercial understanding: Understand the strategy, products and services of HSBC and role model customer-centricity
  • Efficient delivery: Be a careful steward of resources, aligning priorities to strategy and delivering services cost effectively, including through using AI

Risk & Control

• • Strong risk culture: Demonstrate sound judgement and building capability in others to do the same
  • Enabling smart risks: Guide stakeholders in taking smart risks, leveraging expertise and understanding of broader risk landscape
  • Early identification, escalation and mitigation of risk: Identify risks early, working at pace to escalate appropriately and take action to ensure good outcomes

Technical

• • Technical excellence: Demonstrate best in class subject matter expertise, reflecting knowledge of developments in your area to anticipate issues
  • Strategic thinker and trusted advisor: Act as a trusted advisor, thinking strategically, exercising excellent judgment and communicating legal issues clearly and effectively to enable decision making
  • Innovation and learning agility: Role-model a growth mindset and ongoing development, champion innovation and curiosity, and keep pace with emerging developments and their impact on strategy

AI and Technology

• • AI Fluency: Build AI fluency by continuously upskilling, gaining an understanding of workflow and prompt engineering and share learnings and best practice
  • Responsible adoption and critical evaluation: Continuously rethink how legal work can be done better or more efficiently using AI, while maintaining critical thinking to validate and challenge outputs effectively
  • Data readiness & literacy: Understand the data necessary to apply AI to the work you do, and demonstrate discipline in maintaining that data
  • Horizon scanning: Horizon scan and understand emerging AI-related risks that will impact our business stakeholders and customers

The chosen candidate for this role will be required to undergo enhanced vetting. Subject to local laws, this will require the individual to satisfactorily pass a series of additional checks as part of the recruitment process and on an ongoing basis, if appointed to the role. HSBC Group reserves its position with regards to any steps which it may take in relation to any material adverse findings which arise either when the checks are originally completed, and/or if relevant, on an ongoing basis.

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