Data Privacy Risk Lead

**Data Privacy Risk Lead**.

**Role Purpose. **Global Operational and Resilience Risk (ORR) is a sub function of Group Risk. Its purpose is to make sure HSBC understands, and is in control of its non-financial risk position. In addition, the function provides resilience risk stewardship to global businesses, functions and entities we operate in.

Resilience Risk (RR) Specialists provide expert advice covering specific RR risk lens to ensure high quality advice, expertise and guidance is available across all of the risk types of technology (including cyber) risk; data and information security risk; third party risk; contingency risk; physical security risk; building unavailability risk; workplace safety risk; payments and transaction processing risk.

The RR Specialists work closely with their RR peers and the ORR Business and Functions they support, by providing RR technical advice and guidance for their consumption and use in delivering their respective relationship management remits.

for their consumption and use in delivering their respective relationship management remits.

**Main activities**:
The Resilience Risk Specialist, Privacy and Retention Risk Senior Manager is responsible for supporting and delivering the following minimum outcomes, within the context of their Region, Business or Function ORR team:

- Provide technical advice and support globally to ensure stakeholders understand and are aware of the control environment and assessment of privacy and retention risk globally commensurate with the scale and nature of operations
- Support the ORR Business & Functions team to explain in non-technical terms the impact of issues or events, and top and emerging risks that may require changes (for example, to controls, resources or business operations) to remain within respective risk appetites
- Support the ORR Business & Functions teams to ensure risk and control owners have clear understanding of the effectiveness of the current control environment
- Monitor the local external environment to get early sight of emerging data risks and provide detailed guidance on controls required to mitigate against them. Build and maintain relevant cross-organisation and industry relationships
- Deliver tailored and specific expertise across privacy and retention risk enabling 1LOD to successfully deploy and operate mitigating key controls
- Provide technical guidance to support development and completion of ORR and regulatory reporting obligations (e.g. RAS, top & emerging risks, risk profile reporting, RMM, Board reporting where relevant, etc.)
- Ensure the root cause of relevant operational risk issues and events are fully understood and correctly treated
- Ensure any concerns with key controls and material change programmes, relevant to privacy and retention risk, are understood and escalated as needed
- Work in conjunction with the ORR Business & Functions teams and 1LOD to escalate any matters when needed
- Lead regulatory and audit engagement pertaining to privacy and retention risk; ensure regulatory compliance for privacy and retention risk and timely completion of audit actions and findings
- Support training and capability uplift for the ORR Business & Functions teams to ensure robust understanding of privacy and retention risks.

**Requirements**:
**Experience**
- Strong level of business knowledge and data risk expertise
- Strong level of risk management knowledge and relevant experience
- Comprehensive knowledge of the internal control environment
- A BA or BS University Degree, professional certificate in one or more specialist disciplines

**Requirements**:
**Abilities**
- Providing Expert Advice and Robust Challenge
- Delivering Risk Steward Policies
- Oversee, Review, and Challenge Risks and Controls

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