AVP Finance Change Delivery

at  HSBC

Job description

WHAT ADDITIONAL SKILLS WILL BE GOOD TO HAVE?

• Advance data interrogation skills using SQL and Excel
• Practical understanding of software development lifecycles and methods, including requirements definition and testing in both waterfall and Agile environments.
• Develop relationships with and support stakeholders at a Group and regional level.
• Assist test manager to define a test approach/ scenarios / test cases and execute the test strategy for Regulatory systems/applications
• Stakeholders within Risk / Finance / Line of Business functions at Group, Regional and Site Level.
• Provide important link into project delivery team to ensure quality in operational readiness planning.
• Change Management – Drive change, adopt a positive attitude, can do approach. Inspire team members to improve.
• Relationships - Build and develop relationships to ensure confidence and trust.
• Optimise schedules for delivery and migration of system support functions into FinOps locations.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

The Business Analyst – RWA & Regulatory Reporting Change will be involved in driving the successful implementation of changes to the global, regional and local systems and processes across HBAP Regional & Local Sites, including the overall RWA Change Book of Work across all risk types (NCCR, CCR, Op Risk, Leverage Ratio etc) for Basel Capital Calculation and Reporting. The role will be required to utilise RWA SME knowledge across Finance whilst also ensuring that future Change (Basel 3.1) and BAU change requirements are sufficiently supported. The role will involve working closely with teams across Global Functions and Businesses and subsequent departments in the Region and in-country teams - including Regulatory and Financial Reporting, Retail and Wholesale Credit Risk, IFRS9, Stress Testing, Global Line of Businesses and the Global B3R Programmes.

The role holder will be able to independently:

• Participate in workshops with varied stakeholder and user groups and drive project plan and activities.
• Undertake detailed data analysis and define solutions to resolve complex issues.
• Lead requirements implementation from inception to completion in line with the Programme deliverables
• Exposures to the various design principles to prepare functional design documents for a requirement.
• Ensure the proposed design fits the end-to-end process and system solution.
• Ensure that testing strategies are incorporative of design changes.
• Provide RWA SME support to other workstreams within and outside the Programme structures.
• Be able to translate complex process into simple and understandable process and Op Model documentation.
• Recommend changes to the operating model to improve cost, efficiency, and effectiveness.

The successful candidate will also provide support to the Regional Head of Regulatory Reporting Change, ASP in the planning and implementation of business transition activities, and in tracking the operational readiness of Functions, Global Businesses and the Regional & Site needs to ensure change is implemented successfully.
Requirements

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED IN THE ROLE:

• Extensive experience in a Regulatory or Accounting focused role and able to operate in Finance, Risk and Technical environment.
• Strong technical knowledge of PRA/EBA and HKMA regulatory reporting requirements
• Strong knowledge of Basel3.1 reforms
• Practical understanding of software development lifecycles and methods, including requirements definition and testing in both waterfall and Agile environments.
• An understanding of the Group’s operations, structure and Global Businesses.
• Regulatory Reporting experience across a number of the Banks regulators
• An appreciation of the Group’s Finance processes for internal and external reporting.
• Knowledge of how the offshore centres operate.
• Extensive experience and a solid understanding of process mapping and system tools to create processes.
• Extensive experience with Requirements Gathering and Documentation.
• An understanding of project management.
• Extensive experience with leading, presenting to and working with Senior Stakeholders.
• Good interpersonal skills and a team player.
• Excellent communication skills across all media.