MANAGER - Reference Data Management

Job title: MANAGER - Reference Data Management

Purpose of the role:

• Data controls upliftment, enhancement and monitoring is a key focus of Finance with the background of IRR programme. These controls are key to ensure HSBC meets its commitment to enhance regulatory returns to required standards as well to ensure good quality internal reporting
• Reference data: It is a critical dataset which drives mappings, calculations, adjustments, and transformation of data in a system. Finance Cloud Data Platform consumes high volume of reference data to stitch, repair, map, calculate and report regulatory reporting and Business Finance data for Business Finance Actuals. Management of reference data is a key control and governance process in data controls framework implementation. Role holder will be accountable for reference data completeness, accuracy, and validity through a periodic review with certification and approvals for completeness and accuracy of contents at least annually. It also involves partnering with upstream and downstream teams, driving end-to-end process reviews, and leading transformation, automation, and other improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and scalability.
• Rules Management:  Rules Management is a critical governance process responsible for the end-to-end oversight of the inventory of Base BDEs, auto-adjustments, fallbacks, and validation rules. Role holder will be accountable to ensure that appropriate controls, governance frameworks, and documentation standards are consistently applied across all these components through periodic reviews to validate the completeness, accuracy, and their relevance. These reviews involve close engagement with key stakeholders such as the Group Risk team, Group Policy team, reporting functions, and the Change Delivery team.
• Collectively, these sub-functions prevent the use of invalid, stale, and inaccurate data being utilized in the preparation of reports, by ensuring that all system-embedded preventive controls are operating effectively, thereby safeguarding data integrity, and ensuring the robustness of downstream regulatory reporting processes.

In this role, you will:

• The role will be accountable for ensuring that the dataset enables HSBC Group and its subsidiaries to meet their internal and regulatory reporting commitments in a timely and accurate way.
• The role holder will be responsible to support data analysis, operational management, and controls for Global regulatory reporting, Liquidity and Business Finance Processes. The scope will cover Base BDEs, Auto Adjustments, Validations, Fallbacks and Reference data, ESG, strategic reference data tool – RDHM based processes.
• The role will work closely with the Reporting Operations teams, Regulatory Reporting teams, Liquidity Reporting, Business Leads, FCD team, Data owners, Product Analysts and Systems Operations team to deliver on results.
• Central maintenance and governance for all BDEs, Auto-adjustments, validations, and fallbacks on Finance Data Cloud & other Finance systems
• Support testing, UAT, remediation and Go-Live activities, the role holder will ensure appropriate governance is followed at all steps and ensure full compliance with regulation and internal processes governance.
• The role holder will raise appropriate data quality issues in Aurora backed by detailed analysis and drive it to closure working closely with DAO.
• The role requires data driven analysis, DUSE knowledge, multi as well as senior stakeholder management, audit discussions and cross-team collaboration.
• Represent Reference Data / Rules Management in change forums, understating the change / impact on RDRM process and ensuring smooth implementation.
• Collaborate to ensure that changes are properly governed, adequate impact analysis is carried out.
• Ensure compliance to Data FIM expectation as regard to Reference Data and Rules Management

Leadership & Teamwork 

• Demonstrated strong stakeholder management skills and related experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to work collaboratively.
• Strong presentation and communication skills, ability to interface with internal and external groups.
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Ability to manage and complete projects and tasks on time and with a high quality of work.

To be successful you will:

• Strong analytical skills, ability to resolve simple and moderate issues quickly and accurately.
• Strong understanding of Data controls, DUSE framework, Data platform (Cloud Platform), Cloud Data Architecture, Data Lineage, Financial Risk Reporting Controls
• Ability to analyze and interpret large volumes of data.
• Data querying skills including SQL, Python etc.
• Good banking knowledge and strong commercial/business acumen
• Regulatory Reporting / Business Finance knowledge will be good to have.
• Strong experience in Data Quality, Source Systems Analysis, Business Rules Validation, Source-Target Mapping Design and High-volume Data loads

Others

• The role is strongly linked to the management of risk as the single set of data will be used for all financial reporting purposes, including statutory and regulatory reporting and multiple SOX processes. 
• Knowledge of GCP / SDI is an advantage
• Experience in working on a reference data tool will be useful
• Strong understanding of Agile ways of workingPrior Experience in Banking Reconciliation is preferred

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