HSBC Group

Business: Global Finance/ Regulatory Excellence

Open positions: 1

Role Title: IRR Europe Programme Manager GSC’s

Global Career Band: 4

Location (Country / City ): India, Gurgaon/Bangalore/Hyderabad

Recruiter Name : Kanchan Lalwani

Why join us?

• This role is within the Integrity of Regulatory Reporting Programme (IRR) delivering the uplift of the control environment for prudential returns for Europe. The objective of the IRR programme is to build a robust and sustainable control environment over the course of 2024-26.  This will require strengthening resource, data and systems capabilities across first-line reporting and testing, and second-line assurance.
• Jointly sponsored by Finance and Risk, the vision for IRR is a sustainable regulatory reporting function delivering complete, accurate and timely regulatory returns. The scope of this role is prudential reporting for the PRA regulated entities: HSBC Bank plc and HSBC Continental Europe. This role reports to the Director – HBEU IRR SME Lead.

The Opportunity:

Role purpose

• The role requires excellent project and programme management skills, ability to collaborate with others to solve problems, clear communication and extensive interaction with senior stakeholders across Finance and Risk on a regular basis.  

What you’ll do:

Key responsibilities include:

• Support the implementation of a sustainable regulatory reporting framework, ensuring that the IRR control standards and design requirements are correctly and consistently implemented across the relevant scope of reporting in line with Regulatory Reporting & Data Policy requirements.
• Management of plans, milestones and delivery to drive the execution of the IRR deliverables, including supporting managing budget, resources and analysis to prioritise activities and deployment of resources.
• Work closely with a range of teams to ensure efficient coordination and consistent communication across teams to enable effective delivery, including Reporting Operations, Policy, Financial Control, Group IRR Programme teams and programme partners including Data Architecture Office, DBS and Risk & Compliance.
• Manage delivery to clearly track progress against plan and monitor delivery against KPIs.
• Manage Risks, Issues & Dependencies and escalate as required.
• Prepare materials for Governance, ensuring key messages are clearly articulated and appropriately targeted for the audience.
• Provide programme and project support where required across a range of tasks according to the programme needs including: managing issues as they arise, coordinating across different teams, ensure activity is prioritised and decisions understood, input into briefing papers and updates for a range of forums.
• Bring a continuous improvement approach and learning mindset, recommending improvements and spotting opportunities to ensure the IRR programme in Europe is well run, highly organised, and meets its objectives.
• Support target operating model work to ensure that the improved control environment is sustainably embedded into BAU.
• Promote a culture of control awareness and best practice across the regulatory return processes.

Leadership & Teamwork 

• Track record of delivering outcomes for complex/technical change projects efficiently and effectively.
• Excellent communication, both verbal and written and ability to articulate complex information in clear and structured way to suit audience.
• Highly motivated to make a difference on a major strategic programme, where there is high complexity, multiple inputting teams and technical subject matter.
• Ability to work independently and be self-motivated as well as operating effectively as part of a team and contributing to team deliverables.
• Strong problem-solving/analytical abilities needs to be able to distil complex problems into manageable parts and plan work accordingly.
• Ability to a provide a proactive focus on risk/issue identification and mitigation, recognising where MI should be escalated for further review.
• Excellent excel and presentation skills.
• Ability to effectively work with global and regional teams in Risk, Finance and other functions.

What you will need to succeed in the role:

Functional Knowledge

• Strong Programme and Project management experience and knowledge.
• Significant experience and knowledge of Regulatory Reporting, Process & Controls and/or a clear aptitude and desire to learn. Deep understanding of HSBC’s IRR requirements would be an added advantage
• Understanding of the role of Regulators and of the purpose and context of Regulatory Reporting.
• Finance and Regulatory audit background desirable.
• Fully qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CA/CIMA) or a similar educational qualification preferred.
• Capability to solve complex problems, initiative to spot improvements and highly collaborative.

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