HSBC Group

Business: Finance Operations 

Open positions: 1

Role Title: Manager - Finance Operations GSC’s

Global Career Band: 6

Location (Country / City ): Chennai / Hyderabad

Recruiter Name :  Kiran

Why join us?

• The Cost Management Team supports the GCOO and GCIO and across the Group. The Overall cost base (Group Infrastructure) of the Group is close to $10bn. Major activities that’s performed by the team

The Opportunity:

• Pre Close activities in terms of Accruals / Re-classes / Provisions
• Monthly Cost Analysis and identifying the drivers
• Closure of Local GL/ MI systems
• Ensuring the Group TM1 System is closed for the Country / Region
• Data Integrity of various touchpoint systems
• Reconciliation of Data between the systems
• Other Adhoc requests
• The Individual will have regular interactions with the Country / Region COO / FP&A teams and will call for his/her expertise on cost drivers and analysis. The interaction may also extend to multiple support teams including Global Business

What you’ll do:

• Key responsibility is to ensure the Function / DBS Actuals numbers are Accounted, Charged and Reported accurately every month at Entity / Site / Region level
• Ensure adherence to Group and Country timelines for GL close / MI Close
• Ensure the data integrity in MI Actuals via establishment of effective control procedure.
• Prepare the results of the process, investigate significant variances. Responsible for investigating any abnormal variances compared to previous months and coordinate with Central Finance teams for Business insights
• Prepare ad-hoc requests quickly but also be able to priorities these requests, ensuring these are agreed.
• Ensure all processes are correctly and thoroughly documented (SOPs) and have been agreed.
• Maintain monthly reporting timetable for both routine and ad-hoc tasks
• Continuous review of processes with the objective of improving the service delivery timeframes and identify areas of improvement
• Ensure support is provided per requirements from onshore counterparts
• Ability to manage trouble shooting/ secondary reviews and understand queries raised by business partner and determine escalation as necessary

Leadership & Teamwork 

• Take ownership and build effective working relationships with stakeholders
•  Accountability of accuracy and timeliness of deliverables
• Drive / support change initiatives

What you will need to succeed in the role:

• B.Com /M .Com/ CA(Inter)/ CWA (Inter), CA/CWA/MBA: 12+ years
• Strong working knowledge of Financial Systems is key (e.g. HUB, HMI, Saracen, Fusion, TM1, or similar)
• Experience in Data mining & Analysis
• Ability to plan, lead and implement change to Business Frameworks.
• Ability to understand, map and change reporting process-flows
• Good communication and ability to interact with multiple employee levels/business partners, etc.
• Possess strong analytical and lateral thinking skills.
• Result driven.
• Strong relationship management skills across a diverse organization 
• Flexibility to work in accordance with Business requirements – this may include working outside of normal hours (E)
• Ability to learn and is highly motivated to perform at the highest standard.
• Must have excellent attention to detail and work within tight deadlines ensuring a complete and accurate flow of information's between stakeholders.
• Must be experienced in working under pressure on multiple process improvement projects
• Continuously improve and challenges the status quo
• Strong written and oral communication
• Monitor the inherent operational risks with the process and define effective controls

What additional skills will be good to have?

• Candidates having techno bent of mind with experience in tools such as Qlik, Python, Xceptor will be preferred
• Prior experience on working with TM1 and GL ledgers.

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