# Chief Risk and Compliance Officer

**Company**: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
**Location**: Ebene, Port Louis, Mauritius
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Risk and Compliance is a global function that brings together all aspects of regulatory and financial crime risk management. Acting as risk stewards, and incorporating a range of specialist teams, we work together with the business and leverage advanced technology to help HSBC navigate a complex regulatory landscape and embed a sustainable approach to compliance risk management that supports safe growth and ensures fair outcomes for clients.

The Chief Risk and Compliance Officer for Mauritius (CRCO) is the primary point of accountability for all risk and compliance matters in the country including its legal, regulatory and other compliance obligations. The purpose of the role is to lead and direct the effective identification, assessment, management, monitoring, and mitigation of risk, ensuring that we meet all legal and regulatory requirements and operate within risk appetite.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and directing the stewardship of Mauritius, as a partner to the business, supporting growth aspirations whilst retaining the appropriate risk and compliance management discipline to achieve the Group’s strategic goals.

- Ensuring effective relationships with the Mauritius regulators.

- Supporting Regional Risk and Compliance leadership and country leadership in setting key functional targets (e.g. risk appetite) within Group guardrails.

- Fostering a strong risk, control, and compliance culture, including ensuring adequate management focus and demonstrative “tone from the top”.

- Strengthening risk management by incorporating risk and compliance considerations in all activities undertaken to protect and enable the business’ activities through a robust risk management understanding.

- Oversees the application of the HSBC Risk Management Framework to enhance, standardise and integrate the various risk activities including the implementation of strategic projects and systems.

- Develops, monitors and communicates Mauritius Risk and Compliance strategy, policies and appetite throughout the Mauritius business.

- Maintains cost discipline and drives improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of risk management activity.

- Acts in accordance with HSBC’s purpose and values, being cognisant of all applicable local legal, fiscal, regulatory requirements to deliver good and fair outcomes for customers and other stakeholders.

Role Requirements:

- Experienced risk and compliance professional with tenure in a leadership position, ideally within a global financial services organisation.

- Good knowledge and management of legal, regulatory and compliance obligations.

- Experience of building, developing and leading a sizeable team.

- Experience of managing within a complex matrix environment.

- Experience of dealing with regulatory matters and confident interaction with regulators.

- Proven ability to proactively and constructively engage with senior management, clients, regulators, auditors and examiners.

## Skills

### Required
- risk management
- compliance
- regulatory affairs
- financial crime risk management
- advanced technology
- team leadership
- matrix management
- regulatory matters
- auditing
- examination

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