Financial Control Manager (GCB6)

The health and safety of our employees and candidates is very important to us. Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), we’re leveraging our digital capabilities to ensure we can continue to recruit top talent at HSBC. As your application progresses, you may be asked to use one of our digital tools to help you through your recruitment journey. If so, one of our Resourcing colleagues will explain how our video-interviewing technology will be used throughout the recruitment process and will be on hand to answer any questions you might have.

In this role you will:

Impact on the Business / Function

• Undertake the timely provision of accurate and reconciled financial information
• Support management to provide first line analysis of variances and drivers primarily impacted in the process
• Respond to regular and ad hoc data and report requests from key finance and non-finance customers
• Ensure that all reporting and analysis is provided to key stakeholders by deadlines
• Provide advice to operational team on operational accounting and system error including but not limited to Fusion accounting, nominal/cost center and reporting requirement.
• Review and approve/ reject journal booked in Fusion by business.
• Investigate Fusion abnormal booking and advise adjustment/ support to post adjustment on behalf of user.
• Represent Finance to join bank level system projects on Finance system requirements, configuration and related accounting requirements.

Customers / Stakeholders

• Work with stakeholders across the bank to obtain information required for completion of control and reporting requirements
• Maintain a good working relationship with local and regional departments
• Timely and accurate submission of exceptions report to FIN sub-team with detailed commentaries and business reasons.
• Timely and accurate completion of month end adjustments to ensure quality of output reports.

Leadership & Teamwork

• Will provide leadership to ensure processes are in place to collect information that requires manual processes by liaising with necessary stakeholders including business partners
• Work closely with other finance and business finance functions including GFC.

Operational Effectiveness & Control

• Establish appropriate operational controls based on risk assessments to ensure that the Group’s Operational Risk Management Framework is met and fully adhered to at regional and site Finance level
• Liaise with Operational Risk Management and Finance teams to ensure that all key risks within their activities and operations are identified, mitigated, and monitored by an appropriate control environment that is commensurate with risk appetite
• Monitor the ongoing effectiveness of key controls to gain assurance that they are operating in line with risk appetite and any regulatory and HSBC requirements
• Assess adequacy of remediation of issues, including audit findings, internal control issues, and regulatory observations
• Monitor and validate KIs and report weaknesses to senior finance management
• Provide regular update / training to all levels within local FIN team on the Group Operational Risk Framework
• Set up and review prepayment, fixed assets procedures considering the control aspects to ensure assets are properly recorded.
• Perform Fusion month end GL closing and other ad-hoc activities.