Job description

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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

Human Resources leads the implementation of the Group’s people strategy in line with business objectives. It facilitates talent management, succession planning and employee mobility while defining and overseeing frameworks that support employee performance management, reward, learning and development, resourcing and engagement.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a HR Consultant, Financials (8 months fixed term contract).

Principal Responsibilities

This is a key role supporting the central programme team and plays a critical role in driving and managing the programme’s financials workforce requirements. The role will also support in embedding the Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) baseline and be involved in transformational activity with this group.

CIB transformation is focused on ensuring the cost base is efficient and streamlined, which includes the integration of the former CMB and GBM teams in CIB. The project is enabled by Costs to Achieve (‘CtA’) funding which provides investment to achieve the projects’ aims; The CIB Transformation is a critical part of the HSBC transformation programme which is currently entering a critical stage of execution.

The role holder will be primarily responsible for:

  • Managing and monitoring Financials reporting, FTE and attrition reporting and cost tracking
  • Liaising with Regional and Country HR, and business teams as well as the central programme owners in order to ensure reported FTE and associated costs are as accurate as possible
  • Providing ad hoc input into management presentations where financial or FTE data is required
  • Supporting the Programme Finance/ HR and Business stream owners in ad hoc tasks, data analysis and presenting information to the CIB management team
  • Working closely with HR and the HR MI to make sure that FTE savings are closely tracked and reported
  • Project tracking and analysis, such as maintaining a forward looking view of milestones
Requirements

To be successful you will

Knowledge

  • Financials management
  • Broad understanding of HR processes and CIB proposition, financial services landscape
  • A knowledge of sound HR principles, and being aware of sensitivities that may come with a role in the HR environment

Experience

  • Experience of working in HR, Finance or Business Management function with a keen interest in HR related activities and relationship management, working knowledge of people systems/ databases is key
  • Ability to prioritise tasks and be flexible in both mindset and approach; often having to adapt at short notice
  • Experience of navigating the HSBC Group, ideally within a change environment
  • Flexibility, tenacious and resilient to deal with business demands

Capabilities

  • Attention to detail, advance use of excel
  • Ability to adapt communication, both written and verbal, to suit a wide range of stakeholders
  • Sound relationship management and influencing skills, outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively and confidently at all levels
  • High level of drive and motivation to ensure successful delivery of transformational initiatives
  • Ability to work with limited guidance and often with limited data in order to drive decisions
  • Strict adherence to the requirements of confidentiality. Discretion and integrity essential

Opening up a world of opportunity
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