HSBC Group

Business: Global Finance

Open Positions: 1

Role Title: Manager, Finance ESG Change GSC’s

GCB: 5

Location (City, Country): Gurugram, India

Recruiter : Kiran

Why join us?

• Our purpose – Opening up a world of opportunity – Here at HSBC we use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open up new kinds of opportunity for our more than 40 million customers. We’re bringing together the people, ideas and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world – for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities and the planet we all share.
• If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be. We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Manager, Finance ESG Change.
• The purpose of this role is primarily working on designing controls for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Sustainable Finance related initiatives that may or could have an impact to Global Finance processes for both external disclosures and internal reporting and monitoring.
• The scope would cover identifying what and how Global Finance systems and processes changes would need to be tailored for to meet the ESG Global Finance strategy, priorities, and requirements. This includes understanding changes to current processes and controls, gathering control requirements and designing target state control enablers required to deliver the ESG book of work to enhance the ESG reporting capability in Global Finance. The role would contribute to the interlock of Global Finance with Global Businesses (GBs) and/or Global Functions (GFs).
• The role also aims to enable the ESG Finance to keep track of the status of any of the ESG and Sustainable Finance related control discussion or issues that would have an implication to Global Finance to meet its external disclosure requirements and/or deliver the internal reporting and monitoring capability on ESG related matters.

The Opportunity:

• The Global ESG Finance Programme is a multi-year programme within Finance Change Delivery (FCD) to deliver the Global Finance Strategic Solution for ESG reporting obligations and internal monitoring and reporting capability for the bank. As a key member of the global ESG FCD team, this role will contribute to the transformation and delivery of the strategic solution covering ESG disclosure, regulatory and internal MI reporting onto the Cloud-based data platform and reporting from a control perspective. This role will support the end-to-end design and implementation of the controls for tactical and strategic solution development across all requirements in collaboration with ESG Data and Analytics Office (DAO) and Finance IT. It is essential that the role holder is familiar with the fundamentals of process design, risk management framework and control framework principles.
• The role holder is expected to liaise with a large group of senior stakeholders across Global Finance, including ESG CFO team, Business Finance teams, GBs, GFs, ESG DAO to deliver the design of controls for Global ESG Finance Programme.
• Strong collaboration is required with the Design, Data and Operating Model workstreams within ESG FCD and across Finance IT teams as the role holder will support the delivery of consistent controls for the ESG Global Finance Strategic Solution to comply with the processes, system architecture (e.g. FCDP, FDPP) and Finance Cloud / IT controls framework in line with the Finance operating model.
• The role holder will enable ESG Finance to keep track of the control documentation across all areas of ESG reporting that would have an implication to Global Finance to meet its external disclosure requirements.
• This role is a unique opportunity to work in an area of growing interest to regulators, investors, and the wider external market. Disclosure rules and regulation for ESG topics are evolving globally. There is a need to understand new and changing disclosure requirements, and how these can best be met for Group’s external reporting. As the ESG disclosures have grown in prominence, there has been an increased need for robust controls, assurance and oversight of ESG reporting and disclosures.

What you’ll do:

• Support the targeted end-to-end control environment design aligning with targeted operating model and solution design to ensure a sustainable control environment for various ESG processes within Global Finance.
• Elicit control requirements for the ESG and Sustainable Finance related initiatives that have an impact to Global Finance processes for both external disclosures and internal reporting and monitoring based on to-be system architecture and operating model.
• Monitor key tasks, delivery milestones and project RAIDs for Controls workstream within ESG FCD to ensure HSBC Change Framework is adhered to.
• Perform risk and control assessments on ESG processes at various stages of project delivery.
• Perform Non-Financial Risk (NFR) assessment on ESG and Sustainable Finance related initiatives managed by ESG FCD team.
• Contribute to programme testing approach and documents, including gathering controls design and operational effectiveness testing evidence during dry run or parallel run.
• Provide inputs to the Operating Model & Controls Working Group of ESG Finance Programme to support regular status reporting on Controls workstream. Prepare Control related packs/papers for senior management review and approval.
• Map target state controls to the processes documented in MS Visio and/or ARIS, ensuring HSBC standards are followed.
• Support the 2LoD Risk Stewards, internal and external auditors review and sign-off of control related deliverables.
• Maintain strong and collaborative working relationships across Finance and other stakeholder groups.
• Enable transition to BAU, ensuring completeness, governance, and adherence to HSBC Change Framework standards.

What you will need to succeed in the role:

• To be successful in the role, you should meet the following requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• Strong risk and control background and work experience, preferably in a leading accounting firm or financial services sector.
• Good knowledge of NFR and operational risk management frameworks.
• Experience of designing and implementing new processes and controls to mitigate non-financial risks, including evaluating processes and controls over financial reporting and operational processes.
• Experience of performing risk assessments throughout the project lifecycle, including NFR assessments and be able to present to Risk Stewards to seek approvals.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge and experience with change management is highly valued.
• Good knowledge of Finance systems architecture, strategy delivery, data model, especially Finance Cloud platform.
• Team-working experience in a project environment and a flexible and adaptable working style to work with a large group of stakeholders (all levels of seniority) across multiple geographies.

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