Senior Manager Group Financial Reporting

Job ID: 0000JYAY

Location: London, United Kingdom

Area of interest: Finance

Job type: Permanent - Full Time

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 25-Apr-2024

Closing date: 28-Apr-2024

Job description

Some careers open more doors than others.

If you're looking for a career that will unlock new opportunities, join HSBC and experience the possibilities. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you 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.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In this role you will:

• Manage and provide direction on all aspects of the external financial reporting process for the consolidated HSBC Group, ensuring we deliver high quality within strict deadlines.
• Own and analytically review complex areas of HSBC Group's external financial reporting, which involves understanding the implications of various financial transactions on financial statements.
• Implement the necessary control environment to provide assurance over consolidated financial information included in external publications.
• Partner with subject matter experts in other finance functions, business, accounting policy and risk.
• Interpret and communicate complex financial concepts to senior stakeholders, including the Group Audit Committee (‘GAC') via written GAC papers.
• Drive deep dive reviews of financial reporting areas, and initiatives to optimise and automate our reporting processes.
• Be required to act as deputy FR Lead as and when required, including dealing with senior stakeholders and managing the Group FR team.

Requirements

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

• Relevant financial reporting experience with a large financial services institution, preferably in a Group capacity.
• Fundamental understanding of the external disclosure requirements for a large organisation, preferably a financial institution.
• Knowledge of consolidation and Saracen is desirable.
• Strong knowledge of IFRSs, awareness of best practice financial reporting and reporting challenges. Knowledge of other relevant regulatory reporting is a bonus.
• Ability to field, analyse and solve unstructured problems / queries and to challenge existing procedures.
• Ability to partner with subject matter experts in other finance functions, business, accounting policy and risk on external disclosure requirements and financial reporting questions / challenges.
• Ability to communicate complex financial issues to management and other senior stakeholders both written and verbally.
• Ability to design, document and communicate analytical procedures to provide assurance over external financial statements.
• Experience managing a team as well as internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience implementing process optimisation or automation is desirable.

This role is based in London, Hybrid.

Opening up a world of opportunity

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.

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