Stewart Richardson
Senior Climate and Sustainability Risk Manager (Vice President) @HSBC
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Climate and Sustainability Risk Manager (Vice President) @HSBC
London, GB
Outstanding leadership and project management skills used to implement a range of deliverables, as part of a regulatory “Climate Risk Programme” including incorporating physical risk data into mortgage assessments, assessing our exposure to high transition risk sectors, and providing review and challenge on scenario analysis exercise methodologies. This resulted in the successful completion of all regulatory commitments for submission to the PRA.Led the delivery of enhanced climate risk data capabilities though the design and implementation of infrastructure changes to record critical data assets, by effectively leading a change delivery team. Identified and sourced transition and physical risk data across lines of business by collaborating with stakeholders to develop existing data, and engaged with external vendors to source use-cases. Data obtained include sector exposures, residential properties at risk of climate change, EPC ratings, operational emissions, and physical risk impacts for sites operating important business services.Accountable for the effective management, validation and oversight of climate risk data as part of the regulatory BCBS239 programme.Owned the delivery of product governance framework enhancements to manage and mitigate the risk of greenwashing throughout the end-to-end product lifecycle, and developed an industry standards playbook to ensure all external and internal standards are adhered to across product managers and risk stewards. Developed and deployed a suite of regulatory Risk Appetite Statements (RAS), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and reporting tools, to effectively manage and monitor physical and transition risks across the risk taxonomy.Responsible for UK Climate Risk regulatory disclosures including HSBC UK Annual Reports (ARA), Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment (ICAAP), and Internal Liquidity Adequacy Assessment (ILAAP).Successfully completed the Chartered Bankers Institute Qualification in Climate Risk.
EDUCATION
Christ’s Hospital School
A Levels & GCSEs
The Chartered Banker Institute
Certificate in Climate Risk, Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law
Linkedin Learning
Artificial Intelligence for Project Managers
ProQual
Cyber Security Awareness Level 2
CFTE - Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship
Around Fintech in 8 hours
ABOUT STEWART RICHARDSON
Vastly experienced and self-motivated individual with an extensive history of working in the financial services industry, including within climate and sustainability risk, complex regulatory transformation programmes, digital risk, products and innovation. Highly skilled in risk management across taxonomies, including resilience risk and regulatory compliance, with proven expertise in project delivery, data management and analysis, stakeholder engagement, and reporting. Outstanding leader of stakeholders due to outgoing personality, emotional intelligence and interaction skills, which consistently drive successful outcomes. Experience across multiple lines of defence and functions including Retail and Wealth, Private Bank and Commercial. Achieving success, whilst demonstrating role model behaviours, comes naturally.KEY SKILLS Excellent communication skills, adapting style of delivery depending on the audience.Natural confidence which allows the creation of positive, long-lasting relationships with stakeholders.Experienced in delivering challenging messages to a wide range of Senior Stakeholders.Ability to educate and motivate others, either to large audiences or on a 1:1 basis.Robust risk management skills within an ever-changing regulatory environment.Exceptional decision-making skills under pressure or with conflicting priorities.Consistently high level of accuracy, attention to detail and self-motivation.Strong understanding of AI tools, including Generative AI, Agentic AI, Natural language models, Machine learning, Supervised and Unsupervised learning, and VAE detection use cases.Expert in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Qlik, Jira/Confluence, and regulatory report writing.Strong understanding of Prince2, Agile, including Kanban boards, user stories and scrums.
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