Purpose

This role is central to strengthening HBAP’s crisis readiness and ensuring we can navigate – and emerge stronger from – periods of severe stress. As the Recovery & Restructuring Planning Lead, you will shape and continuously evolve HBAP’s recovery and restructuring plans, partnering closely with HSBC Group to build the tools that underpin confident decision-making when it matters most.

You will bring together recovery actions, restructuring options and execution playbooks into a single, coherent and regulator-ready framework – designed to support the timely restoration of viability under extreme scenarios. Working across a broad and senior stakeholder set, you will influence the strategic choices and recommendations that progress through the Operating Committee and ultimately to the Board.

Key responsibilities

• [Continuous improvement] Own and continuously enhance HBAP’s library of recovery actions and restructuring options, ensuring alignment with evolving regulatory expectations and Group standards
• [Testing & readiness] Lead the recovery stress tests, Business Line fire drills and the restructuring planning testing and assessment programme; support Board and Operating Committee exercises as required to strengthen decision-making and execution readiness
• [Regulatory submission] Lead the end-to-end HKMA recovery planning cycle – drafting, coordinating challenge and review, and driving governance through to final submission
• [Regulatory engagement] Act as day-to-day regulatory liaison to the HKMA supervisory team covering HSBC’s recovery planning
• [Risk monitoring] Design, calibrate and maintain recovery indicators and triggers, including clear reporting, escalation and decision-support routines
• [Execution discipline] Own timelines and outputs end-to-end, anticipating dependencies and securing inputs across stakeholders with pace
• [People management] Provide day-to-day direction to team members and coordinate contributors outside the team to deliver the recovery and restructuring planning portfolio

INTERNAL

Skills and competencies

Required

The candidate can:

• Interpret non-prescriptive regulatory and internal guidance and translate it into clear, tangible outcomes for recovery and restructuring planning
• Convert outcomes into a structured delivery plan, including work breakdown, resourcing, milestones and critical path management
• Mobilise cross-functional working groups, track progress rigorously, and proactively surface and resolve risks, bottlenecks and interdependencies
• Produce crisp, senior-ready communications that turn complex analysis into a clear narrative, options and recommendations
• Build trusted relationships across functions and communicate confidently with senior stakeholders, including effective challenge where needed

Preferred (can be developed within the role)

The candidate brings a strong understanding in one or more of:

• HSBC’s strategy and business activities
• Capital, liquidity, and/or operational resilience management
• Crisis management, restructuring and/or transformation
• Regulatory recovery and restructuring planning requirements