Business: commercial Banking

Open positions: 1

Role Title : Manager - Finance Manager GSC’s

Global Career Band: GCB 5

Location (Country / City): Bangalore

Recruiter Name: Shilpa Shamkure

Why join us?

Role purpose (overall high level summary of the role)

Wholesale Data, Analytics & CRM (WDAC) is a world class “data-driven” organization that provides trusted data insights and packaged consumable insights to deliver business value and great customer experience.

Reporting to the Head of Finance & Resourcing this is a key position contributing towards the delivery of the change portfolio within WDAC, which comprises both the Data & Analytics Strategic Business Initiative (SBI), Frontline Effectiveness SBI, as well as the wider Delivery portfolio within Wholesale Data & Analytics (to a total value of c. $90m in 2024).

As a GCB5 Finance Manager, your role in this journey is pivotal. You will take responsibility for management of an agreed sub-set of the budget and forecast both from a resource and cost perspective. You will be focused on ensuring accurate and complete financial data, in order to provide value-adding management information, trend analysis and forecasting to support workstream leads and upward reporting. You will also be instrumental in the resourcing process, ensuring the hiring process is as smooth as possible and all roles are appropriately funded. The successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate excellent attention to detail and a commitment to continuous improvement whilst maintaining adherence to financial governance processes.

In return, we will support your growth and development and provide you with the opportunity to be part of a significant commercial transformation. You’ll play an important role in driving our investments to success and delivering a customer experience fit for the future.

What you’ll do:

Principal Responsibilities
• Management Information Reporting: working with the wider WDAC central portfolio team, IT and Transformation Finance teams to ensure accurate tracking of actuals against forecast, both from a cost and headcount perspective, including distillation of this information for succinct and digestible upward reporting.
• Providing accounting guidance to the Project Management community: improving the overall quality and capability of cost and resource forecasting among change practitioners within WDAC through ongoing review and coaching
• Gatekeeper of project costs: management of the cost tollgate process, ensuring recruitment aligns with approved forecast
• Business Partnering with Vendors and Project Managers: improve process efficiency, improve forecasting of resourcing and non-resourcing requirements and reduction of costs where appropriate
• Ensuring project expenditure approval and adhering to financial guidelines and policy

Strengthen and embed investment appraisal principles: ensure the WDAC change portfolio is following robust decision-making processes and is maintaining effective business case management throughout the full lifecycle, from initiation to benefits realization

Customers / Stakeholders

In this role you will work directly with a broad range of stakeholders across multiples businesses and functions.

It is imperative that you are able to show excellent stakeholder management.
• Build trusting relationships with stakeholders
• Ensure requirements coming from multiple areas are aligned

Managing expectations of multiple stakeholders and resolving conflicts

Requirements

What you will need to succeed in the role:

Qualifications & Experience Required

Knowledge
• Experience of working in a change environment within financial services;
• Knowledge of accounting practices within a projects / change context;
• Knowledge of the external environment – regulatory, political, competitors etc.

Experience
• Experience of supporting programmes with large budgets (£10M+)
• Experience as a HR / Finance Business Partner would be advantageous
• Proven ability working in in complex multi-jurisdiction and multi-cultural environments
• Proven ability to work with senior stakeholders and sponsors
• Experience in PMO of complex programmes/ organizations

Capabilities
• Experience of management accounting and forecasting
• Understanding of financial controls
• Business Case Development and Benefits Realisation
• Resource and Team Management
• Strong analytical skills

Qualifications and Accreditations
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Accounting qualification would be advantageous
• Knowledge of HSBC financial systems (e.g. TM1, gPDM, HIBS/CIBS) would be advantageous

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