VP - Finance

ob Purpose 

• Plan and direct the finance function of GSC Sri Lanka to ensure best practice and consistency achieved in all aspects of the finance function.
• Maintain HSBC Finance internal control standards.
• Ensure good relationships with all key stakeholders.
• Set a high standard of continuous staff motivation and leadership to ensure a good work environment leading to committed staff that take pride in working for the company.

Principal Accountabilities

Impact on the Business/Function
 
Financial reporting

• Ensure timely provide the comprehensive MI performance review and analysis to GSC Sri Lanka management team and ServCo central Finance team.
• Give financial insightful analysis to support on decision making.
• Support Centra Director on the entity level FRP.
• Propose control area and action points on the GSC Sri Lanka financial position, assist senior management team to deliver the financial targets.

Governance and oversight model

• Maintain HSBC internal control standards, including the timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators 
• Implement the Group Compliance Policy, as applicable to the roles 
• Aware the Operational Risk that associated with the role, and to ensure that all actions during the employment with HSBC take account of the likelihood of operational risk occurring
• Lead the initiative on setting up of a robust internal control environment and its ongoing maintenance.  Identify areas for reinforcing controls.

Support on business events

• Help implementation of the Group Global Processing Strategy by supporting the development of the center
• Co-ordinate preparation and review of business cases.

Treasury Management

• Controlling and monitoring finance requirements and ensuring adherence to recharge methodology and billing rationale.
• Ensure timely Accounts Receivable collection and minimize overdue.
• Funds management to ensure cash is sufficient for the entity.
• Monitor foreign currency exposure and minimize forex risk.

Taxation

• Planning and directing the taxation function of the center. Compliance with local tax laws and monitor developments in regulations.
• Assist in co-ordination of building an appropriate transfer pricing mechanism.
• Ensuring best practice and consistency is achieved in taxation. Ensuring good relationships are maintained with relevant external authorities

Customers / Stakeholders 

• Perform effective and proactive partnering with all functions to FRP (plan) and forecast and provide meaningful action-oriented insights to ensure and enhance effective management of costs and revenue streams.
• Assist in ensuring successful outcomes of internal, external and regulatory audits.
• Ensure billing/inter-company recharge adherence to recharge methodology and billing rationale.
• Act as Relationship Manager with key stakeholders and service providers to Finance (e.g. IT, CRE and HR) and represent the Finance function HSBC-wide, internally.

Leadership & Teamwork 

• Ensure that the team is set up to deliver. Lead and motivate team members with clear objectives and performance management 
• Contributes to the development of staff in his/her team 
• By developing staff to achieve their potential to meet company and personal objectives.
• By understanding and working with HSBC Value, be open, connected and dependable with courageous integrity and demonstrating HSBC value as a role model;
• By counselling and guiding teammates in an environment of change with emphasis focussed on quality services;
• By developing staff in active manner and act as role model to emphasise a good moral in the team;
• By encouraging team member of studying, self-learning, practicing improving their professional skill; 
• By recruiting, retaining good team members to benefit to financial operating in long term;
• By conducting performance management and performance counselling, to ensure that performance evaluation within team is fairly stated and concrete to drive right motivation in the team;
• Act as the connection within ServCo Finance and Pan Sri Lanka Finance

Operational Effectiveness & Control:

• Leadership over all regulatory and compliance matters, and the management of operational risk related to Finance
• Operational risk co-ordination for Global Finance
• Perform monitoring activities to ensure Governance / Oversight of Global Finance adherence to FIM

Certifications, Qualifications & Experience

Knowledge

• University degree in Accountancy. Higher qualification not a bar provided aspirations commensurate with the position
• CIMA, CMA, ACCA or CICPA 

Experience

• 10 years’ experience in financial area, with 5 years’ management experience in finance/accounting position.
• Strong knowledge and experience in financial analysis/General ledger/Fixed asset/Accounts receivable/Treasury Management/Tax.
• Experience with EPR System and familiar with Finance functions
• Manage a team, audit experience and can work under pressure.
• Given the complexities and responsibilities of the position the jobholder must be a seasoned manager with a wide range of skills including dealing with people of different levels and cultures.

Skills                                                        

• Effective interpersonal skills such as influencing, leadership and negotiation skills.
• Strategic thinking ability
• Strong organization and planning skills 
• English is essential
• Proven experience of successfully handling across a diverse range of processes, with an ability to provide direction and motivation in an ever-changing environment     
• Proven record in building and maintaining business relationships and a strong customer service             
• Proven process management, improvement and service management skills.                      
• Evidence of active participation in establishing and managing effective Operational Risk.                                                                                                                                                                                                 
• Evidence of strategy design and implementation with sound understanding of internal/external business environment