HSBC Group

Business: Markets & Sec Services IT

Open Positions: 1

Recruiter Name: Florence P F PAN

Location: GZ

Why join us?

Working in ESF Tech means working with talented individuals across the globe – and your opportunities are limitless.  We strive to provide a faster, better service, to look across and beyond our teams to collaborate, innovate and learn from each other, and we’re not afraid to challenge or continuously look for opportunities to improve.

We are primarily focused on finding people with the right behaviours, ambition and values that fits within our continual improvement culture and celebrate difference. We are very interested to meet people outside of the traditional Capital Markets industry who bring passion and curiosity to the Leadership team. If you feel overwhelmed by the unknowns of this role or don’t feel you qualify on the business knowledge side of things, then please still apply as we are looking to invest in the right person.

You will have the opportunity to have a real influence and lead all aspects of the technical design moving forwards, including establishing a technological principles and direction, while leading its development and maintaining its integrity.

Some of the benefits you’ll enjoy when you join our team are:

• We offer all our employees a flexible working environment. We’ve adopted a hybrid working model which means you can split your time between the office and home.
• We take our employee’s health and well-being seriously. When you join us, you’ll have a host of resources available to you to ensure that you remain healthy, both mentally and physically.
• We want our employees to learn, to grow and to take on new challenges and that’s why we offer our employees continuous learning opportunities through various learning platforms.
• We know that having growth and advancement opportunities makes for an interesting career. So when you join ESF Tech you’ll have plenty of opportunities to move around, experience different areas across ESF tech and even across the wider HSBC group.
• Building a diverse and inclusive environment where employees can realise their potential and thrive is very important to us. An environment where we can harness difference of opinion, thinking styles, background, and culture.
• Finally, our enhanced benefits package offers opportunities to invest in HSBC at a discount and a fully comprehensive medical insurance for you and your family.

Sustainability is really important to HSBC and to ESF Tech. We have an ambitious plan to prioritise financing and investment that supports the transition to a net zero global economy – and help to build a thriving, resilient future for society and businesses. When you join us, you’ll have an opportunity to contribute via our corporate social responsibilities framework.

The Opportunity:

This is an engineering lead role based in Guangzhou. As the Head of Equities Risk P&L IT China, you will be a member of local Equities and Securities Financing management team and also part of global Equities Risk P&L IT Management Team.

Head of Equities Risk P&L IT China will join a global team of a thousand Technologists designing and implementing solutions to drive a successful Capital Markets business. Equities & Securities Financing Technology is a global department within Markets & Securities Services (MSS) Technology at HSBC. ESF has teams in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Pune, Krakow, Paris, London, New York and Toronto which support businesses covering Equities Electronic Trading, Delta One and Flow Trading, Equity Derivatives, Prime Cash & Synthetic Financing, Stock Borrow/Loan, Repos, Futures Execution and Derivatives Clearing. The organization is rapidly transforming both its people structure and ways of working to better align with our clients and increase the speed and quality of delivery. We are deep into a continual improvement culture driving agile delivery through DevOps teams and building a strong product ownership group in the front office of our business.

We are primarily focused on finding people with the right behaviours, ambition and values that fits within our continual improvement culture and celebrate difference. We are very interested to meet people outside of the traditional Capital Markets industry who bring passion and curiosity to the Leadership team. If you feel overwhelmed by the unknowns of this role or don’t feel you qualify on the business knowledge side of things, then please still apply as we are looking to invest in the right person.

You will have the opportunity to have a real influence and lead all aspects of the technical design moving forwards, including establishing a technological principles and direction, while leading its development and maintaining its integrity.

What you’ll do:

As Head of Equities Risk P&L IT China, this role will carry out some or all of the following activities:  

• Establish and lead a high performance team of highly-skilled engineers that will share best practice and engineering excellence across the organization.
• Build and maintain a strong partnership with our business including our product owners to support our business growth by aligning our technical delivery road map with business roadmap.
• Be part of the global team and collaborate closely with teams in different regions to support our global business and project delivery.
• Developing and uplifting team overall engineering capability to support end to end delivery.
• Motivating the delivery team and promoting continuous improvement culture by creating a safe environment where team members feel valued, respected, and part of the organization's success.
• Financial control and P&L management to meet targets.
• Identifying and managing risks associated with project delivery, developing and implementing mitigation strategies.
• Developing and implementing performance metrics and regular reporting mechanisms to track team performance and deliverables.
• Talent management and succession planning.
• Managing third party vendors and vendor service providers.

The ideal candidate for this role would have excellent project management, leadership, and communication skills. They should have a successful track record in leading high-performing teams and delivering complex projects on time, on budget, and to the highest standards of quality. They should have experience in managing budgets, developing and implementing performance metrics, and reporting to senior stakeholders. Additionally, they should have a passion for delivering exceptional customer service and a commitment to continuous learning and development.

• 10+ years of experience in developing and implementing software solutions.
• Gravitas and ability to interact with and advise senior stakeholders in both IT and Business.
• Experience in working in an Agile environment with a strong focus on developing engineering solutions.
• Proven ability to improve team’s engineering capability and productivity.
• Strong leadership skills, team-builder and influencer.
• Exposure and success working within a global matrix organization model.
• Proven track record in developing, managing and implementing effective stakeholder management strategies.
• Ability to think laterally and innovatively and find creative solutions, with a proactive approach to problem solving and delivery.
• Ability to understand business issues and devise solutions that deliver results, constructing fresh approaches where appropriate and making connections to other issues.
• Able to work within an ambiguous environment, prioritize and reconcile competing demands and resolve complex issues.
• Great attention to detail and an ability to identify and manage risk.
• Highly experienced in getting the best out of people at various levels.

Link to Candidate User Guide:

https://hsbchrdirect.service-now.com/hrsp?id=kb_article&sys_id=60ce20691ba69010280dc9df1d4bcb56 

You’ll achieve more at HSBC 

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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