HSBC Jobs – Senior Finance Manager

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Job Description

Senior Finance Manager Corporate Centre and Pensions Risk – Global Functions

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If you’re looking for a career that will unlock new opportunities, join HSBC and experience the possibilities. Whether you want a role 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.

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 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.

We are currently seeking an expert individual to join this team in the role of Senior Finance Manager Corporate Centre and Pensions Risk. The role will primarily focus on managing the financials for the Corporate centre business and additionally be the central point of contact for Senior management in Finance and Risk for all Pension related finance matters.

The role will challenge the successful candidate with its scale and complexity. At the same time, it will provide an opportunity for the individual to develop a broad range of skills including collaboration, financial analysis, influencing skills as well as technical application of IFRS. The role will have significant exposure to senior management. The role will also evolve as Finance goes through the Finance on the Cloud project.

In this role, you will:

• Manage senior stakeholders (CFO, Financial Controller, Pensions Risk, PWC, Pensions Trustees, Pensions Actuaries and Regulator)
• Maintain financial accuracy of the corporate centre business and all its individual components
• Act as a central point of contact in Finance for all Pension related matters
• Deal with Pensions actuaries and work with them and Pension Risk
• Deal with the pensions trustee team on information relating to pension related accounting matters
• Provide a central role to support Financial Controller and Head of Accounting
• Produce Management Information production
• Undertake the technical review of IFRS elements and any new accounting requirements related to Pensions, intangibles etc.
• Ongoing advisory management support as SME.
• Lead projects that may impact Finance accounting.
• Operation of SOX controls including other financial control matters.
• Clearance of outstanding MSIIs/SOX control remediation.
• Production and review of IFRS related disclosures (and other regulatory submissions such as FINREP etc).
• Support of ongoing development activity on Finance on the cloud.

Requirements

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

• Hold an Accountancy qualification (ACA, CA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Possess relevant banking product knowledge
• Have a deep understanding on IFRS
• Experienced with analysis, testing and remediation of complex data sets (MS Excel)
• Strong communication skills

The base location for this role is Birmingham.

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