HSBC Group

If you are a UK or CIIOM based employee, please apply using the following link which will take you to our new Recruitment System: https://performancemanager.successfactors.eu/sf/jobreqpvt?jobId=8194&company=hsbcholdin&st=E0AE022CA4B5658D85F748D441F3DFB4A160E154

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.

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

Global 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 global team of finance professionals’ partner with the legal entities and global businesses to meet their internal and external financial and regulatory reporting requirements, provide trusted insights and forward-looking analysis; in a timely, accurate and efficient manner with robust controls to enable effective decision making.

To support this purpose Global Finance have established an internal consultancy called Finance Solution Group (FSG) of Finance SMEs to support the function with a flexible, multi skilled and agile workforce to ensure they can meet competing RTB and CTB priorities. The FSG provides a more cost effective alternative to external consultants, and ensures Global Finance retains knowledge within the function.

To deliver this, the FSG is looking to recruit a number of FSG Consultants and these positions would be a good match for someone with extensive experience in one or more aspects of Financial Accounting & Reporting, Partnering & Insights, and/or Regulatory Reporting. The successful candidate will be an individual contributor and be placed in either short term BAU roles and/or CTB programmes where their skills meet the demand

The Consultants within the FSG will benefit from on the job coaching and development from the Senior Consultants and Capability Lead, as well as learning that has been developed specifically for HSBC Global Finance.

The Consultants will be expected to:

•    Develop Subject Matter Expert (SME) knowledge in Regulatory Reporting.
•    Provide SME inputs into the change programs/Business as Usual (BAU) processes to which they are assigned.
•    Escalate any risks identified on their assignments and work with the team and stakeholders to resolve any challenges that may impact agreed outcomes.
•    Build their SME knowledge across a wide variety of potential opportunities across BAU and Change programmes, gaining experience and exposure to different senior stakeholders.
•    Demonstrate commitment to continuous learning and a curious nature, to challenge existing processes and identify opportunities for improvement across Global Finance.

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

•    Understanding of control frameworks.
•    Change and transformation experience.
•    Experience of regulatory reporting.
•    Ability to deal with and analyse unstructured problems and queries and to question and challenge existing procedures and change.
•    Good understanding of financial products and how they impact reporting requirement, and more generically the banking business, balance sheet and P&L.
•    Good understanding of Financial Reporting E.g. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
•    An understanding of the key financial risks to which Banks are exposed e.g. Credit Risk, Market Risk etc.
•    Understanding of why banks are regulated and some of the key regulations.

The base location for this role is Edinburgh and with a hybrid working pattern.

To support you with putting your best foot forward for our internal opportunities, you are invited to take advantage of our CV and Interview workshops, hosted by our Talent Acquisition team. To find out more and register to attend please click on this: SuccessFactors Learning: Item Details for CV and Interview skills Classes

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. Our recruitment processes are accessible to everyone - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.

We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse.

If you’d like to apply for one of our roles and need adjustments made, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com
Telephone: +44 207 832 8500

You can find out more about the recruitment journey and what to expect by viewing our Recruitment Process FAQs in HR Direct and by clicking here (only available via internal access).