Responsibilities of the Candidate:
- HSBC is a Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB) and as such faces significant scrutiny from its regulators
- Continued regulatory change in all jurisdictions, will continue indefinitely and the role holder carries a high degree of responsibility associated with the assessment of and preparation of data for the Group’s reporting demands
- A uniform dataset that will support all downstream reporting activities, both external & reporting, requires the role holder to be agile at all times to ensure that all regulatory and internal requirements are catered to adequately
- As new reporting capabilities and new legal entities are on-boarded onto FoTC the role holder has to ensure that the data ops team is able to drive standardization in the final data set and at the same time be responsive to specific reporting requirements
- Role context (The environment and operating conditions of the role including the extent of guidance and authority)
- The role is based in Global Finance and the jobholder will interface with other areas of Finance process leads/ point of contacts
- The job holder will be accountable for ensuring that the dataset from Data Ops enables HSBC Group and its subsidiaries to meet their internal and regulatory reporting commitments in a timely and accurate way
- Excellent collaborative skills, technical knowledge, and a proven ability to embrace diverse cultures will be necessary to be successful in this role
Requirements:
- Experienced financial services professional, likely qualified e.g., ACCA, CIMA, ACA or other (e.g. CFA)
- Exposure of reporting delivery, and multiple regulatory jurisdictions
- Knowledge of a range of businesses and operational processes across the breadth of financial services environment
- Skilled in handling and controlling Finance data
- Strong ability to anticipate, identify, and mitigate risks and apply appropriate controls over regulatory production processes
- Proactively looks for methods to simplify processes
- Good problem solver with well-developed analytical skills
- Experience of delivering to multiple internal and external stakeholders such as external auditors, regulators, audit committees, businesses, etc. and ability to successfully navigate a matrix structure
- Experience of operating in a diverse international financial services group with a matrix structure encompassing business, functional and geographical dimensions
- Ability to manage multiple and, at times, conflicting objectives, prioritising effectively
- Commercially minded and ability to both make decisions in a timely manner and to delegate to others
- Proven ability to influence at senior levels across functions, geographies and businesses
- Excellent all-round communication skills