Business: CIB
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Role Purpose
As an Associate in GC & IMM, your main responsibilities will include:
- Supporting one or more Global Relationship Bankers on a defined portfolio of clients within Nordics Banking
- Collaborating with others across GC & IMM in order to manage the clients’ global relationships
- Origination: Identifying marketing opportunities, undertaking appropriate analysis and preparation of proposals, presentations and pitches for new products and services
- Execution: interacting with clients and various product teams in order to ensure smooth execution in a timely manner
- Client engagement: establishing strong relationship with the portfolio of clients
- Financial Analysis: Developing an understanding of clients’ financials in order to assess the capital markets needs and the credit strengths / weaknesses
- Client Materials: Assisting in the preparation of presentations and other materials for clients
- Sector knowledge: Keeping up to date with the markets and the sector developments to support business development, portfolio management and credit risk assessment
- Collaborating with product and country teams
- Portfolio management / HSBC Strategy: understanding GC & IMM internal return hurdles and identifying opportunities to reduce Risk Weighted Assets to enhance relationship returns
Customers / Stakeholders
Deliver fair outcomes for our customers and ensure own conduct maintains the orderly and transparent operation of financial markets - First and foremost, a resource for the Strategic Innovation Investments senior investment professionals.
Portfolio companies – work with our existing and Target client base to develop strategic relevance with HSBC and value-add from HSBC
Internal businesses – work with internal business champions to develop strategic ties to our clients
Leadership & Teamwork
Support achievement of the HSBC vision, Values, goals and culture in personal behaviour, actions and decision making.
Take personal responsibility for understanding and agreeing performance expectations, completing the necessary mandatory training and developing the levels of capability and competence needed to be effective in the role.
Contribute to team development, effectiveness and success by sharing knowledge and good practice, working collaboratively with others to create a productive, diverse and supportive working environment.
Operational Effectiveness & Control
Suggest ideas and contribute to implementing actions that will improve customer service, quality or the way teams and individuals work together.
Adhere to HSBC policy, procedures and control requirements applicable to day-to-day working, exceptional and project activities, and raise any concerns about actual or potential issues promptly, in line with reporting and escalation procedures.
Continuously monitor relevant management information, gather information from Banking sources to assess potential impacts and identify risks, necessary changes and business opportunities.
Apply Banking policies, procedures, practices and standards to their allocated tasks, taking responsibility for their own actions, to ensure the achievement of high levels of quality, effective risk management and regulatory compliance.
Role Context
Management of Risk
The jobholder will ensure the fair treatment of our customers is at the heart of everything we do, both personally and as an organisation.
This will be achieved by consistently displaying the behaviours that form part of the HSBC Values and culture and adhering to HSBC risk policies and procedures, including notification and escalation of any concerns and taking required action in relation to points raised by audit and/or external regulators.
The jobholder is responsible for managing and mitigating operational risks in their day to day operations. In executing these responsibilities, the Group has adopted risk management and internal control structure referred to as the ‘Three Lines of Defence’. The jobholder should ensure they understand their position within the Three Lines of Defence, and act accordingly in line with operational risk policy, escalating in a timely manner where they are unsure of actions required.
Through the implementation the Global AML, Sanctions and ABC Policies, supporting Guidance, and Line of Business Procedures the jobholder will make informed decisions in accordance with the core principles of HSBC's Financial Crime Risk Appetite.
The following statement is only for roles with core responsibilities in Operational Risk Management (Risk Owner, Control Owner, Risk Steward, BRCM, and Operational Risk Function
The jobholder has responsibility for overseeing and ensuring that Operational risks are managed in accordance with the Group Standards Manual, Risk FIM, & relevant guidelines & standards. The jobholder should comply with the detailed expectations and responsibilities for their core role in operational risk management through ensuring all actions take account of operational risks, and through using the Operational Risk Management Framework appropriately to manage those risks.
This will be achieved by:
Continuously reassessing risks associated with the role and inherent in the business, taking account of changing economic or market conditions, legal and regulatory requirements, operating procedures and practices, management restructurings, and the impact of new technology.
Ensuring all actions take account of the likelihood of operational risk occurring, addressing areas of concern in conjunction with Risk and relevant line colleagues, and also by ensuring that actions resulting from points raised by internal or external audits, and external regulators, are correctly implemented in a timely fashion.
Observation of Internal Controls
The jobholder will adhere to, and be able to demonstrate adherence to, internal controls and will implement the Group compliance policy by adhering to all relevant processes/procedures.
The term ‘compliance’ embraces all relevant financial services laws, rules and codes with which the business has to comply. This will be achieved by adherence to all relevant procedures, keeping appropriate records and, where appropriate, by the timely implementation of internal and external audit points, including issues raised by external regulators.
The following statement is only for roles with managerial or specific Compliance responsibilities
The jobholder will implement measures to contain compliance risk across the business area. This will be achieved by liaising with Compliance department about business initiatives at the earliest opportunity. Also and when applicable, by ensuring adequate resources are in place and training is provided, fostering a compliance culture and optimising relations with regulators.
Candidate requirements:
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
- Ability to undertake in depth review of industry, competitors, clients and products and provide a high quality analysis of credit risk
- Strong financial analysis capability
- Experience in developing marketing materials (pitch books)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
- Understanding of HSBC Group and products
- High levels of motivation and strong work ethic
- Demonstrated capacity to build a network of contacts, both internal and external, in the context of interactions with colleagues and clients
- A strong understanding of the financial markets
- The position requires a self-confident person who is highly motivated and reliable, with strong team spirit
- Strong negotiation and presentation skills