HSBC Group

Head of Finance, Wholesale Europe

If you’re looking to take an exciting new direction with your HSBC career, an internal move can open the door to many opportunities, allowing you to take on a new challenge, and develop your skills. Bring your knowledge of our brand to a new role and grow yourself further. 

Finance is integral to HSBC’s purpose and strategy, playing a valued role in managing costs and deploying capital in the most effective way. Our team of finance professionals partner with the business to provide trusted insights and forward looking analysis; accuracy; efficiency and control to frame and influence business decisions.  

The Head of Finance - Wholesale Europe is a key leadership role focused on business partnering, supporting and driving business performance, maintaining a common global finance operating framework, while also maintaining a strong controllership environment. Its purpose is to provide strategic direction and guidance to senior management within CIB Europe acting as business partner to the Head of Banking Europe & Americas.

The role will be based in London and will report to the CIB CFO Europe & Americas

A move across the business allows you to continue to access tailored professional development opportunities, and our fantastic benefits packages.

In this role you will:

•    Drive business performance, provide business finance support and guidance to the Europe & Americas Head of Banking, acting as a trusted business partner and be the principal point of contact for all finance related matters. 
•    Drive insightful strategic planning, business performance analysis, and planning and forecasting, thereby providing executive decision support covering all aspects of finance to the Europe & Americas Banking management team. 
•    Own the regional strategic planning and forecasting processes for Credit & Lending and other regional products.   •    Be responsible for Finance input into business strategies, providing an evaluation and challenge based on commercial thinking and in the context of a rapidly changing external environment. 
•    Manage the UK based Business Finance team and collaborate with the Americas, HBCE and intra-regional Finance teams. Drive the development of digital initiatives and facilitate the implementation of both Finance and CIB transformation initiatives. 
•    Collaborate with the Global CIB Finance Product partners for cohesive end-to-end oversight across the suite of CIB products (e.g. GPS, GTS, IB, etc). 

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

•    A strong understanding of the suite of CIB Banking products.
•    Proven knowledge of balance sheet and capital management. 
•    In tune with macroeconomic factors, market dynamics and able to interpret impact on performance and risk/return profile.  •    A strong understanding of client profitability metrics. 
•    Strong analytical skills, ability to understand complex data and make high quality, timely decisions. 

•    An effective business partner capable of operating at senior levels of the organisations. 

•    A driven, delivery orientated individual with a commercial mindset and ability to coordinate change.

This role is based in London.

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Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com

Telephone: +44 207 832 8500