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For this role we are looking for a Head of Geopolitical Risk, Europe & Americas to drive the bank’s Geopolitical Risk capability across Europe & Americas.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will 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.

In this role you will:

• Proactively monitor relevant current affairs and political issues across Europe & Americas to help ensure leadership teams have timely information on emerging issues.
• Expertly review political risks through a commercial lens to identify potential impacts on the bank.
• Regularly draft accurate, succinct and persuasive written assessments of complex geopolitical topics for senior Europe & Americas stakeholders.
• Proactively provide focused, forward-looking and business-relevant risk briefings to senior management across Europe & Americas.
• Develop and maintain strong and productive relationships with a diverse set of internal and external customers and stakeholders.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience in analysing current affairs and political issues across Europe & Americas.
• Significant academic and/or professional analytical experience in relation to the politics of Europe & Americas.
• Strong political risk assessment background to produce impactful assessments of highly complex geopolitical topics.
• Ideally a qualification, certification or accreditation in a field related to Europe & Americas political risk or equivalent experience.
• Proven professional experience in constructing clear, logical written arguments on complex geopolitical topics for senior audiences.
• Experience writing assessments and briefing senior audiences on complex geopolitical topics.
• Proven ability to approach critical geopolitical issues in a structured, highly logical, methodologically sound way.
• Experience working in a corporate environment (financial institution, think tank, multinational, etc.)
• Demonstrable experience in developing a risk assessment forward plan.
• High level stakeholder management skills, including the ability to work confidently and effectively across multi-disciplinary teams and with senior executives.

Desirable:

• Network of contacts across Europe & Americas
• Experience/knowledge of wholesale banking
• Experience of intelligence analytics/investigations

The base location for this role is London and a minimum of 2 days in the office is required.

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At HSBC we look to enable our employees to better balance their work / life priorities and have the flexibility required to meet challenging needs as they progress through different life stages. Where possible we will consider the following flexible working options: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, and working from home and staggered hours. If in considering a role with HSBC you have a need for some flexibility in your working arrangements please discuss this with the recruitment team in the early stages of the application process.

HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme, and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please contact our Recruitment Helpdesk:

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Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism. This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.