HSBC Group

Business: Financial Reporting

Open positions: 1

Role Title: Manager GSC’s

Global Career Band: 6

Location (Country / City ): India/ Gurgaon

Recruiter Name :  Kiran

Why join us?

• 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. Global Finance Operation Centers (GFoC) is core to Global Finance and provides a variety of financial support services to key finance stakeholders across the HSBC Group.
• Financial Reporting (FR) involves the analysis, design and implementation of externally disclosed financial information to the various stakeholders of HSBC Group. It also involves other Financial Regulatory reporting viz., Finrep, GSIB, leverage ratio.
• Financial Reporting performs variety of tasks including reporting development, consolidation and finalisation of consolidated results, analytical reviews and document production.  The main responsibilities of this role are to deliver financial statements and data for external disclosures, but is also integral to the transformation programme.

FR function includes:

• Designing of Group Chart of Accounts and reporting developments, consolidation activities (consolidation adjustments, intercompany elimination, goodwill impairment test, data adjustment management), data assurance and analytical reviews (including CIA), document production and internal stakeholders Sign-off and related governance and control management
• Establishing reasonableness on the data populated by Operational accounting teams.
• Engaging with Group led IFRS technical projects and lead the FR inputs to these projects, e.g. IFRS 9 etc.
• Continuous engagement with internal and statutory auditors on various aspects, including quarterly review and audit procedures apart from other specific projects.

The Opportunity:

• MENAT Financial Reporting is responsible for managing Reporting development, performing Consolidating, Analyzing financial statements and Preparing and publishing of Europe financial statements for external Stakeholders including regulatory Authorities. The team is responsible for end to end ownership of key deliverables, including but not limited to Instructions letter, Adjustments, Journals, Assurance templates review, Consolidation / assurance checks, substantiate the IFRS and FINREP disclosure and to provide Sign-off to stakeholders.

What you’ll do:

• Perform analytical review (in line with IFRS) and provide assurance on the quality and accuracy of data to be used for preparation and publication of Financial Statements and associated disclosures. The process involves performing appropriate analysis and logical checks to ensure there is reasonableness and consistency in data submissions, as also to identify any material errors and omissions.
• Understand the consolidation mechanism of complex and granular financial information required for IFRS and FINREP reporting Purposes.
• Prepare/review consolidation journals, manual returns (Detailed break-up/ commentary on numbers), ad hoc information and notes to the Accounts.
• Perform and review analytical review and commentary on primary statements, notes and other disclosures in the Annual Report & Accounts and Interim Report.
• Be a team player in supporting the planning and forecasting team activities (monthly and quarterly), wherever applicable.
• Work closely and building strong relationship with multiple stakeholder
• Identify opportunities to increase efficiency and consistent of process.
• Ensure accuracy, completeness and validity of Consolidated data in the financial statements for the purpose of monthly and quarterly reporting
• Build mechanism to track data inconsistencies as early as possible in the reporting cycle and take remedial steps to correct them.
• To be flexible with duties to manage the peaks in the process.

What you will need to succeed in the role:

• Qualified CA (Chartered Accountant)/CWA /CPA /CFA with at least 5+ years of post-qualification experience
• Requires sound understanding of IFRS
• Working experience on Wdesk and Saracen would be an added advantage
• Person should have good understanding on consolidation of financial statements.
• Ability to manage the service delivery of a designated processes
• Ability to understand numbers and their impact drive and achieve accuracies across report deliveries
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office suite (Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Word), Saracen and Hyperion
• Excellent Communication skills – Both verbal and written
• Knowledge of, and experience in planning and organizing techniques as well as in problem solving techniques
• Self-driven
• Flexibility to work in accordance with Business requirements
• Ability to build rapport with and relate to a wide range of people
• Should be open to shifts and willing to work in flexible hours as per the process requirements

What additional skills will be good to have?

• Co-ordination with business area and across business partners – strong inter personal skills
• Good Understanding of IFRS
• Exposure to multiple systems and database handling (Saracen/Hyperion etc.)

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