Job Description

"The health and safety of our employees and candidates is very important to us. Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), we\xe2\x80\x99re leveraging our digital capabilities to ensure we can continue to recruit top talent at the HSBC Group. As your application progresses, you may be asked to use one of our digital tools to help you through your recruitment journey. If so, one of our Resourcing colleagues will explain how our video-interviewing technology will be used throughout the recruitment process and will be on hand to answer any questions you might have."
Why join us? The purpose of the role is primarily working on designing operating models and controls for ESG and Sustainable Finance related initiatives that may or could have an impact to Global Finance processes for both external disclosures and internal reporting and monitoring.
The scope would cover taking the lead in identifying what and how Global Finance systems changes would need to be tailored for to meet the ESG and Sustainable Finance Global Finance strategy, priorities and requirements. This includes understanding changes to current processes and controls to design target operating models and controls. To this end, the role would help coordinating with Global Lines of Businesses and/or Global Functions with Global Finance.
The role will also support to enable the ESG CFO to keep track of the status of any of the ESG and Sustainable Finance related discussion or issues that would have an implication to Global Finance to meet its external Disclosure requirements and/or deliver the internal reporting and monitoring capability on ESG and Sustainable Finance related matters.
The potential impacts to the finance systems would span along the end-to-end processes resulting from any of the ESG and Sustainable Finance related initiatives. For instance, any of the upstream business requirements changes leading to the upstream systems changes, which would need to be considered in the Global finance processes and systems.
Key accountabilities include:

• Drive development, review and agreement of required operating model and control changes for the overall operating model and Finance roles and responsibilities within that.
• Perform risk assessments on ESG processes and controls at different stages of project delivery
• Responsible for writing testing approach documents and gathering controls testing evidence during dry runs/ parallel runs
• Create Operating Model packs and present to senior stakeholder to seek approvals
• Facilitate discussion with key external stakeholders on TOM implementation (people, process, systems and data)
• Map target state business processes and controls in the MS Visio and CaseWise
• Design/ uplift controls to in compliance with HSBC standards
• Maintain strong, collaborative working relationships across Finance and other stakeholder groups.
• Support the development and delivery of the Global Finance Change book of work on ESG and Sustainable Finance deliverables including Group, Regional and site deliverables.
• Work with other programmes to ensure that Finance related ESG and Sustainable Finance dependencies are delivered within the timelines and to the standards required by Finance.
• Enable transition to BAU, ensuring completeness, governance and adherence to Change Framework standards.
• Provide important link into project delivery team to ensure quality in operational readiness planning.

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

• Excellent working knowledge of MS related products i.e. PowerPoint, Excel, Ms Visio.Prior experience in global regulatory/finance change within a Finance or Risk context.
• Knowledge of performing risk assessments
• Prior experience of process mapping
• Good knowledge of identifying, defining and testing controls
• Ability to influence and collaborate with Finance and cross-functional teamwork.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Good Cross-Finance knowledge and experience, able to confidently speak on behalf of Finance.
• Drive, motivate, commit and focus on operational excellence.
• Understanding of HSBC Group structures, values, behaviours, processes and objectives.
• Good knowledge of the external environment \xe2\x80\x93 regulatory, political, competitors, etc.
• Team-working experience in a project environment and a flexible and adaptable working style to work with multiple project managers across multiple geographies.
• Sound appreciation of Accounting, Regulatory and Management Information principles