William T. Weismann Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Riverwoods, Il, Us

London, Gb

• Develop the US sustainable operations net zero strategy, focusing on waste and energy across the bank’s footprint and build key relationships with regional and global colleagues to achieve consensus.• Drive the risk-related components of the sustainability function and strategy. Execute operational risk management through formal governance to protect our work and the bank's reputation.• Build a culture of climate awareness and education within the HSBC Climate Action Network both regionally and globally as a key driver of HSBC's sustainability agenda.

London, Gb

• US regional direct report to the SVP/Head of US Corporate Sustainability and dotted line reporting to the SVP/Head of US Communications and Archives.• Dual hat role supporting two functions to also include Business Information Risk Officer (BIRO) and Third Party Risk Management Officer (TPRO) responsibilities.• Regular engagement with Global BRCMs for Group Sustainability and Global Communications.• Management of Risk and Control Assessments (RCA) with onward aggregation into HSBC Group RCA.• Control testing, reporting and implementation of action plans.• Reporting oversight of third party risk, data leakage, data exceptions, vendor management, regulatory compliance and records retention.• Supporting executives with respect to 2/3 LOD assurance engagements and Audit and Compliance reviews.

London, Gb

• Conduct due diligence review and grant management for all lines of business.• Consolidate and revise all Corporate Sustainability Governance Procedures.• Write User Acceptance Testing scripts and training decks for a large system data conversion. • Project Manager for tracking and remediation of users' issues.

Lake Zurich, Il, Us

• Assist on all marketing communication pieces for the firm, distribute to clients via email and track statistics such as opens and clicks. • Research various mortgage lending, servicing and/or due diligence content.• Write executive summary reports on current financial services and mortgage lending topics.• Assist on mortgage lending and due diligence client presentations.

London, Gb

Responsible for developing and implementing strategic communication plans which support North America Human Resources priorities, in alignment with a global strategy, to 56,000 employees in 4 countries: U.S., Canada, Bermuda and Cayman Islands.• Created and implemented internal communication plan to improve employees’ understanding of business objectives, using appropriate messaging and tactics to achieve specific measurable goals.• Worked with Executives to implement change management, multi-channel strategies to create employee buy-in and engagement.• Developed “HR in 5”, a monthly newsletter of topical HR information sent to approximately 5,000 recipients, to assist leaders at all levels better manage their teams. • Developed a communication strategy to change Manager’s view of performance management from a process-driven, twice-annual task to a year-round, behavior-focused activity. • Wrote feature and news articles for staff intranet site, including a series of articles focused on employee benefits, designed to increase employee engagement and morale. • Conceptualized, wrote and published intranet content professionally representing the corporate brand.

London, Gb

HSBC Consumer and Mortgage Lending - Business Communication• Responsible for operational communications for CML Servicing, including procedures, policies, and general communication, as well as other project support. • Developed framework for consistent support for all key servicing departments and for employee business communications.

London, Gb

HSBC Consumer and Mortgage Lending - Default Services• Supported Non-Government / Government initiatives. Drafted response letters to various state and regulatory agencies, as well as established a document-request protocol and tracking mechanism. Improved the overall process of gathering industry data, consolidating and reporting results.• Enhanced Outreach Event Tracking to better manage post-event follow up.

London, Gb

HSBC Consumer and Mortgage Lending - Records Administration• Managed a staff of 10 Unit Managers and 95 Associates, with an annual budget of $16 million.• Responsible for all Records Administration functions of Collateral Management and File Maintenance and a file room of over 400,000 active accounts; Coordinated with more than 300 sellers, resulting in the purchase of 30,000 loans monthly worth in excess of $3 billion.• Oversaw audits of branch originated loans and coordination of all on site due diligences for state examinations, securitizations, and loan sales.• Received Consumer Lending Department 2005 “Center of Excellence” Award.

London, Gb

HMS - Loan Sales/Records Administration• Responsible for the start-up of the Loan Sales Unit.• Coordinated weekly conference calls with all layers of management across several business sites to ensure all deliverables were met and all timelines were adhered to.• Managed a staff of ten associates to ensure all loan sale functions were complete, as well as all collateral documents and files were forwarded timely to the new servicers.• Ensured all customer notifications were in compliance and timelines achieved according to federal RESPA guidelines.

London, Gb

HFS - Loan Administration Department• Managed a staff of eight Financial Acquisition Analysts to ensure newly purchased loan funding data balanced to loan set-up financial data.• Identified and reported loan funding financial variances and communicated these to internal and external business partners and tracked their disposition. Presented findings and recommendations to management for review and further action.• Responsible for the start-up of the Data Integrity Validation Unit and managed a staff of ten associates to ensure new loan set-up data was properly validated and timelines maintained according to department guidelines.• Established and communicated loan data quality and productivity standards for all newly set-up loans and increased efficiencies by automating the entire data validation process.

Lake Zurich, Il, Us

Manager – Special Loans Department• Promoted in 1 ½ years to Assistant Vice President and managed staff of thirty employees who were responsible for handling adjustable rate mortgage loans, buydowns, biweekly loans, HUD 235 loans, assumptions, conversions and balloon loans.• Responsible for monitoring exception reports to ensure proper servicing and adherence to investor guidelines and timeframes of a portfolio of 85,000+ special loan products.• Oversaw quality control and data verification audit of all ARMs and other special loan products.Assistant Manager | Recertifications/Final Documents Department • Supervised a staff of nine employees to track and clear all final documents from prior servicers.• Directed recertifications of all FNMA and GNMA pools and FHLMC loan purchases adhering to agency deadlines.• Coordinated a nine month project which resulted in clearing the entire backlog of recertifications involving 6,200 exceptions and 1,000+ pools.

London, Gb

• Conducted on-site evaluations and coordinated conversions and transfers of loan portfolios upon purchase, merger, and sale.• Performed due diligence interviews and presented audit findings and issues to departments.