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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 caliber professional to join our team as an HR Consultant - Financials.

Principal Responsibilities

The role will report to the CIB HR Consultant Lead. This is a key role leading the financial elements of the central transformation programme, it plays a critical role in driving and managing the programme’s financials workforce requirements. 

Corporate and Institutional Banking "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:

• Leading the financials reporting, FTE and attrition reporting and cost tracking
• Coordinating with Global, 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
• Be responsible for adhoc input into management presentations where financial or FTE data is required
• Manage the Programme Finance/ HR and Business stream owners in adhoc tasks, data analysis and presenting information to the CIB management team 
• Project management and analysis, such as maintaining a forward-looking view of milestones

Role Deliverables

• Managing workforce systems to ensure accurate reporting and working with key stakeholders to ensure data is completed in a timely manner
• Lead workforce reports to support forecasts and planning across teams
• Guarantee in a proactive manner a robust process is followed to track costs to achieve and FTE savings
• Ensuring that the FTE are correctly reported through relevant cost centre structures to maintain accurate and fit for purpose costs and FTE reporting
• Lead the relation with HR/ Finance and Business teams at a global level sharing information on a timely basis and supporting/challenging local delivery and implementation
• Display strong influencing, negotiating and interpersonal skills within a complex global environment.
• Engage with initiative owners; to ensure forecasted and actual FTE remain on track
• Maintaining a forward looking view and ‘look ahead’ to the HR milestone being delivered and ensuring that initiative owners remain aware of local delivery
• Working alongside HR transformation team to ensure extracts from HR reporting tools are aligned to CtA
• The successful candidate should be confident in managing complex relationships and engaging with a variety of internal stakeholders
• Be responsible for ensuring effective system controls and procedures are followed
• Report progress, issues, dependencies and risks

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

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