AVP-FINANCE CHANGE DELIVERY

Job Title: AVP-FINANCE CHANGE DELIVERY

Purpose of the role  

• The incumbent of this role is accountable and responsible for managing and strengthening the Finance Systems Operations (FSO) and Systems Maintenance (SM). The overall objective is to create an environment where there is minimum or no surprises, enhanced awareness amongst employees, timely escalations, and strict monitoring of application performance and manage incidents and queries effectively & efficiently. The role’s critical success factors include managing relations within Finance Operations and the larger HSBC Finance community; ability to work across teams/ sites/ time zones; influencing business outcomes. The role holder will be accountable and responsible for managing & strengthening FSO & SM sub function provide Production Support to Regulatory, Liquidity and Financial Reporting Systems.
• This role is responsible for providing SME support to users, Query Management, Data Quality checks and reconciliations, Business Rule Development, performing Impact Assessments on CRs and coordinating with IT for platform incidents and evergreening. The role also involves stakeholder management, working with project teams for smooth BAU transition of new systems and processes, assist in process re-engineering, testing strategies and training team members.

In this role, you will:

Principal Accountabilities and Responsibilities (e.g., for Business, Customers and Stakeholders; internal control environment, etc.)

Run Support

• Provide oversight and governance for Incident management, data quality triage, query management, focus on controls, supporting DR/ PR and new technology or release or application onboarding.
• Provide subject matter insight in Regulatory, Liquidity and Financial Reporting framework i.e. process (technical solution), Regulatory, Liquidity and Financial Reporting Systems requirements for data purposes & systems.
• Establishing and building user confidence in robust production environments and excellence of Finance Operations support function
• Oversee and evaluate production system support tasks performed during Monthly, Quarterly and Year-end close.
• Lead Financial Reporting changes for Consolidation system including strategic advise and governance over Financial Reporting.
• Providing advisory oversight in interpreting the data calculations and validation within the application.
• Demonstrate strategicproactive approach – it is fundamental for this role that all stakeholders are kept informed of the progress of issues raised towards resolution.
• Provide oversight to End to end understanding of the process within the agreed timelines or learning curve.
• Monitor and evaluate performance metrics to ensure alignment with the target set as per the SLA/KPI.
• Review, oversee, update/maintain the Process manuals and Standard Operating Processes.
• Partnering with the IT & Change team with various system updates and changes.
• Responsible for the coordination and governance of controls used in the system.
• Has the ability to standardize a process by suggesting the best practices.
• Conceive Ideas and spread awareness of implementing various automation tools to reduce manual efforts.
• Governance of all issues encountered during production run and drive timely closure of all report failures / exceptions.
• Collaborate with the Application / Infrastructure Support Team for any issues related to underlying infrastructure.

Change Management

• Engage with Senior stakeholders viz Business Users / application owners / Finance change delivery / Finance IT for any business, infrastructure or application change to understand / assess upcoming changes.
• Collaborate and provide inputs to the Application / Infrastructure Support Team during Change release.
• Apply strategic Understanding of DevOps Model and Agile methodology.
• Analyse Requirements, Build & Test requested changes and deliver as per agreed timelines.

Customers / Stakeholders

• Engage and collaborate with Regulatory, Liquidity, Risk and Financial Reporting teams, IT, Business users and Change Management team.
• Engage with various stakeholders to understand the criticality and customer requirements and drive requests/ changes accordingly.
• Establish and maintain effective relationship with customers and identify areas of service improvements by implementing regular calls and feedback mechanism.
• Influence and escalate key customer issues in an effective way to ensure timely resolution by adhering to incident management framework.
• Conduct ongoing and Continuous reviews of the customer issues and ensure products and services are tailored on an ongoing basis to meet expectation. 
• Oversee adherence to Incident Management framework and ensure timely follow up and prompt updates to Business & Management.
• Influence and escalate issues / risks in an effective way to ensure timely resolution.

Leadership & Teamwork 

• Actively engage in establishing a strong control environment at Finance Operations
• Be a good team player. 
• Self-driven and motivated
• Ability to deal with senior management.
• Work effectively with people in Risk, Finance Function, Regulatory, Liquidity and Financial Reporting work streams and IT as required.
• Demonstrates HSBC Values with utmost professionalism.

Operational Effectiveness & Control

• Adherence to Group policies, audit, controls, and compliance requirements including but not limited to Declaration of secrecy, data protection act, health, safety and security, clear desk policy.
• Effectively drive and manage change, plan business contingency, and achieve cross-training.

To be successful you will:

Functional Knowledge

• Knowledge of finance functions such as Regulatory, Liquidity and Financial Reporting, reconciliations and reporting in the financial services sector.
• Understanding of SOX controls and user security framework would be required.
• In depth prior understanding of Regulatory, Liquidity and Financial Reporting Systems domain and associated systems
• Strong knowledge on providing Production Support for Critical Finance applications viz. IFRS9, Liquidity reporting applications.
• Expertise of Incident management framework
• Understanding of SDLC/ STLC and change framework
• Very good understanding of the overall Financial Reporting Consolidation system functionalities and its usage including the chart of accounts, architecture and data flows
• Good understanding of other Finance systems and processes within HSBC e.g. FTP, GOCA

Skills / Experience

• Experience of leading production support of critical applications
• Exposure in change and automation projects
• Experience of Data quality analysis and understanding of Data will be an added advantage.
• Strong communication, navigation, and stakeholder management skills
• Knowledge of multiple Finance functions in a banking environment
• Ability to work in large teams across multiple locations.
• Strong presentation creation and delivery skills
• Should have eye for detail and problem solving and influencing skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with team members/wider business including senior executive management and ability to develop a good rapport in challenging situations.
• Able to cope with pressure & tight deadlines.
• Assertive, with a positive attitude and an open mind

Technical Skills Sets (Any of the below listed technical know-how is essential for the role)

• Visualization tools - Qlik, Power BI, Tableau, SAS VA. Working knowledge on SQL will be an added advantage.
• Development, Automation and Workflow tools - SAS, SQL, Python, Xceptor, VBA, Appian
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Project)
• Good Knowledge of Incident management tools and recovery process

Others

Personal Skills

• Good communication skills, able to professionally and effectively present information and issues
• High Level of problem solving and analytical skills and ability to grasp complicated functions in short period of time.
• Mature and independent - able to work with little supervision.
• Proactively identifies and completes required tasks.
• Team player able to manage conflict and conflicting priorities
• Confidence and ability to instill change disciplines and control across the team
• Must be flexible to work in 24*7 shift.
• MCA/MBA/BCA/ B.Com/B.E /B Tech : 7+ years of experience in leading accounting firms / financial services sector / IT firms
• Experience in participating in internal / external Systems audits.

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