Job Description

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential - whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of UK Cyber Business Integration Head. This is a permanent, full time role reporting to the UK CISO, supporting the UK Technology and Business teams.

In this role you’ll:

• Lead cyber integration & strategy: Lead, develop and grow the UK Cyber integration team acting as the primary cyber integration contact, set cyber priorities aligned to customer and growth strategy, consolidate requirements and feed into annual planning and global cyber initiatives.
• Delivery oversight & transformation enablement: Provide security consultancy and oversight for UK initiatives end-to-end, remove delivery roadblocks, align cyber resources to business priorities, and partner with Architecture/Engineering and Delivery teams to embed secure-by-design thereby realising transformation benefits (including M&A support).
• Governance, risk & reporting: Maintain oversight of the risk profile, incidents and control effectiveness; represent Cyber in risk forums; track and drive closure of cyber issues (audits/MSIIs); and deliver metrics/MI and risk-based reporting to governance committees and regulators.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• Commercially aware decision-maker: Uses business and market insight to spot emerging trends and translate them into practical plans and priorities for their area.
• Action-oriented leader who delivers through others: Works at pace, coordinates across teams, and supports an inclusive environment to deliver agreed outcomes.
• Influential and accountable in complexity: Builds alignment with stakeholders, raises and resolves issues constructively, and delivers reliably in ambiguous situations.
• Leadership experience: Demonstrated experience contributing to and delivering security strategy, leading teams and programmes, and applying strong security risk methodologies and engineering practices.
• Governance, frameworks and certifications: Strong working knowledge of ISO/IEC 27001 and NIST, supported by a relevant degree (or equivalent experience) and one or more professional certifications (e.g., CISSP/CISM/CISA/CRISC) or progress towards them.
• Senior stakeholder communication and influence: Clear written and verbal communication skills, able to engage and influence senior stakeholders and explain security risk and control decisions in practical business terms.
• Willing to travel as needed.

Opening up a world of opportunity

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk via hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com