Job Description

Role Purpose:

The Head of Regulatory Compliance (RC), Japan is the primary point of accountability for all regulatory compliance matters in the country. The purpose of the role is to lead and direct the effective identification, assessment, management, monitoring, and mitigation of RC risk, ensuring that we meet all legal and regulatory requirements for HSBC Japan and operate within risk appetite.

The Head of RC, Japan reports to the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, Japan.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Leads and direct the stewardship of Japan for RC matters, 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.
• Ensures effective relationships with the Japan regulators.
• Represents the RC agenda at Japan governance forums, reporting on progress and issues in relation to the operational effectiveness of HSBC’s policies, processes, systems and controls in countering RC risks.
• Lead the Japan RC team, establishing guiding principles and strategic operational objectives, owning budgeting and managing costs, headcount and resources to ensure that the team is fit for purpose and that the delivery of its critical services to the Group is both effective and cost-efficient.

Role Requirements:

• Experienced compliance professional with tenure in a leadership position, ideally within a global financial services organization.
• Good knowledge and management of legal, regulatory and compliance obligations.
• Good working knowledge of wholesale banking businesses, their products and services, across both corporate and institutional client segments.
• Experience of building, developing and leading a sizeable team.
• Experience of dealing with regulatory matters and confident interaction with regulators.
• Proven ability to proactively and constructively engage with senior management, regulators, auditors and examiners.
• Langauge requirement: Native level Japanese and Business level English are required