JD - Financial Accounting
- Preparation & consolidation for Annual Reports & accounts
- Strong analytical skills for variance analysis.
- Preparation of advanced level Analytical Review (“AR”) and Group Review Schedules (“GRS”) for Regional submission on quarterly basis
- Review and Approval of all journals
- Strong technical knowledge of Accounting and reporting principles.
- In-depth functional experience in accounting for all balance sheet / income statement heads
- Ability to meet KPI timelines including under stringent time lines and high pressure situations
- Excellent communication skills to be able to manage the In-country team on a daily basis.
- Drive new projects/assignments/process: Identify, Drive, Build & operate it as BAU
- The ability to work to a high degree of accuracy under pressure is important as during the reporting periods the team is required to meet tight deadlines.
- Ability to prioritize and plan work in an efficient manner
- Performing UAT/Dry Runs on different Change requests
Reporting & Data Management -
- Experience in Data mining, analysis, Financial Statements, IFRS and Audit/Compliance
- Ability to plan and implement change to Business Frameworks, reporting hierarchies, allocation rules and mappings
- Good communication and ability to interact with multiple employee levels/business partners, etc.
- Strong relationship management skills across a diverse organization, especially with senior management
- Ability to understand, map and change reporting process-flows
- Experience of Visualization tools like Qlik Sense, Tableau, Power BI, Vizlib, Looker or similar tools will be added advantage
- Business Finance Actuals Reporting (Global, by region, by product, by segment) and BAU change initiatives
- Drive Reporting improvements incorporating feedback from CFO, business reviews, process changes from transformation initiatives that impact business reporting from time to time
- Data management processes that involve Submissions to Financial and reporting systems, working/ calculations that feed front office, intermediary and ledgers. All other associated process looking at data sanity, clean up that fall within the remit of Data Operations
- Demonstrating agility to incorporate management reporting change requests on the back of business and finance initiatives
- Expert level proficiency in working on Global reporting systems commonly used in Banks
- Review and challenge assumptions, provide suggestions to enhance Reporting improvements
- Collaborate across In-country and GFOC stakeholders to align Reporting with business submissions
Process Improvements-
- Continuous review of process with the objective of improving the resource utilization, time taken and quality of deliverables. Automate process using tools like Python, Xceptor, VBA or using SQL
- Implement projects for enhancing operational efficiency using automation tools, support Visualisation initiatives and drive standardization
Governance -
- Ensure service delivery of the designated finance processes per the standards set out in agreed SLAs within the HSBC operating framework taking into account key operational risk (including people & processes)
- Ensure all processes are correctly and thoroughly documented (SOPs and Process Maps)
- Maintain monthly reporting timetable via Achieve for both routine and ad-hoc tasks and strict adherence to Achieve
Challenges -
- To adapt to the changes related to systems.
- To manage the stakeholder’s expectation for change projects
- To be able to modify the procedures to accommodate the changing business or regulatory or system requirements.
- To understand the new reporting requirements and designing the process to meet that requirement.
Skills/Experience Required
- CA / ICWA / MBA (Finance) with 1 years of post-qualification relevant experience in Financial and Management Reporting will be considered.
- B. Com / M.COM/ CA Inter with minimum 4 years of relevant experience will be considered.
- Past experience in Financial and Management Reporting, External/ Regulatory reporting of Legal entity financials and supplementary reports. Experience of Banking Industry is desirable.
- Strong working knowledge of Financial Systems is key (e.g. FTP, Saracen, Cognos, TM1 or similar tools)
- Advance knowledge of MS Excel and basic knowledge of MS Access.
- Ability to automate reports to derive efficiency saves through programming languages and tools like Python, SQL, VBA
- Good knowledge of IFRS mainly IFRS9.
- Good understanding of Banking products.
- Exposure to Financial reporting (Exposure to IFRS/FINREP/Central bank reporting will be an added advantage)
- Advanced capability to understand, analyse and interpret numeric data.
- Project management skills with an ability to initiate process improvements.
- Excellent Communication and Inter person skills – Both verbal and written
Further Information can be obtained from: Reporting Manager
Name –antanu manager
Additional Information / Specific Skills (If Any)
- Prior experience in External/ Regulatory reporting will be preferred.
- Prior working level knowledge of Saracen and FTP will be preferred.
- Must have an analytical bent of mind and ability to work for solutions to the adhoc queries.
- Should be willing to stretch as per the project requirements.