Job description

Some careers have more impact than others.

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

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.

HSBC Global Treasury is the global clearing house for HSBC’s financial resources. We proactively integrate, manage and steer our financial resources for today and for the future, whilst ensuring our prudential safety. Finance resources are defined as the cash, liquidity, funding and capital (including as measured by RWAs, leverage and large exposures) of entities within the Group and the interest rate and FX risks that results from the banking book activity.  We partner with Businesses and entities to provide sustainable optimised commercial outcomes to deliver the Group’s strategy. We manage the residual portfolios and risks with a mind-set of portfolio optimisation.  Our team lead a dynamic and inclusive culture fostering diversity of thought and where the best want to work.

We are currently seeking an ambitious individual to join our team as a Head of FRM Platform Design EXT, working together with colleagues to define, manage and achieve divisional business targets.

Role Purpose

The primary objective of this role is to drive the tooling strategy to aggregate and analyse the various Financial Resource constraints of the entities and businesses across the HSBC Group thereby enabling optimization of how the Group can deploy those resources to increase overall profitability.

The main responsibilities include partnering with stakeholders across entities, functions and businesses to understand their requirements, working iteratively with technology solution architects and developers to identify tools to meet those needs and driving the delivery agenda in close partnership with the Treasury change execution teams.

Critically the role will require a good understanding of the drivers of Financial Resources covering RWA, capital, balance sheet, liquidity and banking book interest rate risks and how these elements relate to each other, constraining businesses in different ways, and in different circumstances.

In this role, you will:

• Optimise resources across multiple products, entities and constraints is today limited by the capabilities of legacy technology and process. Delivering an enhanced toolset is expected to create a broader range of opportunities for the entity and business teams to improve the profitability of their segment
• Improve the toolset that will allow faster decisions to be made as impact assessments will be les manual and there will be fewer “versions of the truth” in terms of the numbers used to inform decisions
• Enable elements of the cost saving agenda due to automation of complex dataset aggregation
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders within IT Entities, Global Businesses and Global Functions (e.g. business line FRM, Global Risk Analytics, Wholesale Credit Risk, entity CFO’s etc)
• Partner closely with the specialist functions in Global Treasury
• Actively participate in and where appropriate lead cross-functional working groups to drive requirements and tooling adoption
• Demonstrate strong communication skills to by influencing others, including peers, senior management, colleagues within the regions/countries to removing barriers to change
• Develop and lead both a functional and virtual team creating opportunities for them to learn and deliver against the overall department objectives

Requirements

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

• Broad-based banking experience in financial services with deep understanding of full range of Financial Resource Management topics
• Deep experience working with IT teams to deliver tools and capabilities ideally familiar with Agile delivery practices
• Proven ability to build and lead multi-discipline team across multiple countries
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience of preparing and communicating key messages and recommendations to senior management and other stakeholders
• Strong influencing, interpersonal, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Result oriented team player who can foster strong and collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC. 

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