Tpsr Senior Risk Analyst

Role Purpose:
The Cybersecurity TPSR Senior Risk Analyst job is responsible for operating as part of a global/local team within the Cybersecurity organisation, to analyse and execute activities around Cybersecurity process, controls, standards and regulatory requirements.

The role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

- Ensure adherence to the three lines of defence organisational model with clear lines of responsibility, accountability and segregation of duties.
- Ensure compliance with internal audit and external regulators that any organisational changes are fit for purpose and meet their expectations
- Analyse and execute activities to ensure compliance with HSBC Cybersecurity policies and standards.
- Contribute to process, procedures and tool identification/development that will strength the bank’s response to threats and incidents
- Assess new technology products and projects utilising security technologies pertinent to the department
- Act as a role model to more junior members of the team
- Engagement with other Cybersecurity teams, senior management and members of the Business when confronted with potential security issues
- Expand their skills, knowledge and experience to enhance the overall capability of the function

The Job holder will be a member of the Global Third Party Security Review (TPSR) Service team within Cybersecurity and forms part of the 1LOD (1st line of defence). TPSR is a regulated activity.

The team is tasked with point in time third parties information security assessments to enable businesses departments to manage their relationship/service within their risk appetite and minimize the operational risk impacts to HSBC, its shareholders, customers, employees, reputation and brand.

Inadequate risk management of a third party can lead to a failure to meet operational business requirements and/or could impact HSBC customers and/or HSBC employees, involve regulatory breaches, civil or monetary penalties or cause damage to shareholder value and/or to reputation.

Depending on the work assigned this may include:

- Managing Engagements, Business Impact Assessments, Guidance requests, Quality Assurance
- Managing other team members as appropriate
- Conducting Local and Global TPSRs (reviews, reports, identify deficiencies, quality assurance)
- Engaging with the Global TPSR team to support TPSR work
- Articulate and explain information security assessment results to business
- Closure of identified deficiencies (verifying evidence to confirm closure or advise what is needed to close them)

Additional Responsibilities:

- Ensuring adherence to global standard methodology, SLA’s, quality, templates and tools
- Ensuring good stakeholder engagement
- Supporting overall activities of Global TPS, including admin and any special initiatives / projects
- MI / Reporting (actual generation of reports or contribution to appropriate reports)
- Mentoring / Coaching / Guidance for other team members / Deputisizing for manager
- Owning and driving special projects aligned to industry best practices
- Overseeing larger and more complex engagement requests and / or reviews
- Subject Matter Expert in own domain with, broad basic knowledge of other domains ensuring appropriate delivery of services along with aligning with the wider strategy and objectives of the bank overall

**Impact on the Business/Function**
- **Protect the Bank. **Protect the bank via proactive regulatory risk reduction actions. Ensure regulatory reporting is consistent across regions / businesses and centrally track reporting through governance committess, maintain a rolling agenda for review.
- **Risk vs. Reward Decision Making.** Make informed and educated risk decision making. Make appropriate commercial / financial institution risk vs reward security decisions.
- **Driving sustainable growth**. Develop the compliance awareness, engage with colleagues across the functions and businesses departments to deliver sustainable risk and compliance solutions. Lead and facilitate change through effective communication, preparation and implementation.
- **Achieving excellence**. Drive business performance, compliance and security.
- **Risk Reduction**. Work with key stakeholders (IT and business) to proactively drive the reduction in IT Security risks and to improve the security risk posture of HSBC within the business risk appetite.
- **Awareness.** Improve awareness of IT Security risks / threats across IT and the business.

**Customers / Stakeholders**
- **Customer focus. **Lead a customer
- led and direct the wider reporting function, both on-shore and off-shore. Engage with relevant programmes and initiatives that impact upon governance, compliance and risk reporting. Deliver fair outcomes for our customers and ensure own conduct maintains the orderly and transparent operation of financial markets.
- **Strengthening stakeholder relationships.** Engage with senior stakeholders across all three lines of defence