If you're looking to take an exciting new direction with your HSBC career, an internal move can open the door to many opportunities, allowing you to take on a new challenge, and develop your skills. Bring your knowledge of our brand to a new role and grow yourself further.

HSBC Ventures is one of the key pillars of HSBC ETIV (Emerging Technology, Innovation and Ventures), focused on accelerating innovation at HSBC through minority equity investments in emerging companies relevant to Financial Services.

In this fantastic, new, senior role, you will joining a global leading Corporate Venture Capital team and be responsible for providing exposure to the most innovative areas of financial services and technology to inform the firm ' s strategic decisions. You will cover various business units and technology teams. You will build and maintain close links and relationships with innovative companies, investors and the wider ecosystem to facilitate early adoption by the firm and its customers of new products and services. Your goal will be to deliver a gross annual strategic and financial return on money invested in line with HSBC Ventures teams' objectives, while building and executing on a pipeline of potential investments and working with existing portfolio companies .

In this role, duties will include:

• Driving the identification of innovative companies and technologies and ultimately building and executing on a pipeline of potential investments.
• Leading negotiations and due diligence on investment targets and presenting such opportunities to the IC.
• Taking up Board Director or Observer seats on portfolio companies and be a primary point of contact for the company internally and externally to help identify new revenue opportunities and advise on the company's strategy.
• Regularly reviewing portfolio performance and exit opportunities, and execution of such opportunities.
• Leading in the evaluation of investment opportunities by undertaking detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Overseeing preparation of investment paper submissions and management of internal approval processes.
• Leading the investment execution process including negotiation of terms, due diligence and approvals.
• Monitoring of investment performance and portfolio company development internally and externally.

To be successful in this role you should have the following skills:

Technical:

• Venture Capital, Startup in technology industries
• Financial markets , specifically capital markets and key trends in corporate ventures
• Trends in AI, Digital Assets, Fintech and broader enterprise software
• Research, analysis and presentations on industries, companies and strategies
• Financial modelling and company valuations
• Team Management
• Networking
• Stakeholder and relationship management

Behavioural Skills:

• Influencer
• Strategic Planner
• Outcome Orientated
• Problem Solver
• Diligent
• Strong communicator

Cognitive Skills:

• Divided attention
• Auditory processing
• Critical thinking
• Collaboration
  
  

This role is based in London on a hybrid basis

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, 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.