Director - Finance Accounting & Ledger Transformation

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Lead organisational design and change across Accounting and Ledger, building transformation capability and enabling delivery of a forward-looking Accounting and Ledger Strategy. Partnering closely with the Finance COO and Finance Transformation Leads, you’ll drive simplification across ledger technology, data and the operating model to improve efficiency, control and colleague experience.

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:

• Shape and deliver the Accounting and Ledger transformation roadmap, translating strategy into clear outcomes, milestones, benefits and success measures (e.g., cycle time, break reduction, automation, control effectiveness).
• Lead and facilitate cross-functional initiatives across Finance, Technology and third parties, supporting complex decision-making aligned to the Finance Transformation Strategy and HSBC values.
• Support organisational design, including target structures, roles and resource requirements to enable high-performing teams.
• Coordinate delivery across workstreams, adapting to changing priorities while keeping stakeholders aligned to outcomes, benefits and timelines.
• Champion capability building and change adoption (learning solutions, leadership development and workforce planning) so teams are equipped for future success.
• Identify and deliver simplification opportunities that reduce complexity and duplication, leveraging Agile practices where appropriate.
• Drive disciplined execution through strong governance, prioritisation and delivery rigour.
• Monitor and manage deliverables using Agile methodologies (e.g., QBRs, PI events, governance) to drive the transformation operating model and roadmaps.
• Enhance the operating model through automation and front-to-back process improvements, ensuring sustainable adoption and benefits realisation.
• Promote digital acceleration, including adoption of technology solutions and AI to support simplification and automation.

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

• Strong understanding of how Finance functions are structured and governed, and how to simplify roles, decision rights and ways of working in a regulated environment.
• Proven experience delivering large, cross-functional programmes with multiple stakeholders, clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
• Experience driving and implementing a significant global accounting and/or ledger or ERP programme within a financial services firm.
• Experience connecting business needs to process redesign and technology enablement (e.g., automation, workflow, data/MI) to drive efficiency and adoption.
• Demonstrated ability to build capability through skills development, learning pathways, leadership development and workforce planning.
• Strong team leadership and stakeholder influence skills; able to operate through ambiguity and drive accountability and resilience in delivery.
• Strong focus on defining, tracking and landing measurable efficiency and effectiveness outcomes, with clear KPIs and ownership.

This role is based in London on a hybrid working basis.

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.

We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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