Insurance System, Process and Change Manager - Global Finance

Job description

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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.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as an Insurance System, Process and Change Manager.

Principal Responsibilities

The Finance function is a core part of the business, supporting strategic decision making across multiple dimensions as well as the development and maintenance of robust procedures to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting internally and externally. The System, Process and Change Team supports the delivery of change projects arising from new business initiatives, core system updates, regulatory and accounting developments, and other initiatives initiated from within the department or individual teams.

The role-holder will be a member of the System, Process and Change Team and will report to the Senior Operations and Process Change Manager. The role-holder will be responsible to develop and maintain an end-to-end understanding of the core finance processes across management information and planning, ledger closing and financial reporting. It is expected to take ownership of a portfolio of change projects, with core responsibilities including:

• Acts as the Finance representative on the wider business project team, understanding requirements, supporting in the definition of solutions and identifying consequential impacts on finance processes with forward looking mind-set
• Ensures the Finance-related processes and system impacts are adequately understood by all these stakeholders such that the change projects are designed ensuring Finance requirements are met
• Plans, designs and executes user acceptance testing, updating documentation for the changes and preparing/conducting training on updated processes to impacted finance teams (both onshore and offshore)
• Manages multiple internal or external stakeholders who initiate systems and/or process change that impacting Finance including but not limited to Actuarial, the Global Finance Operations Centre in India, Software Delivery and Change Delivery teams etc
• Ensure adequacy of internal control over processes within Insurance Finance as part of the implementation of change, and assessing its effectiveness on compliance and operational/transactional risk controls, including SOX, in compliance with HSBC and regulatory standards and policies
• Assists the Senior Manager with stakeholders management within the Systems, Process and Change Team

Requirements

Requirements

• Strong academic background and professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) is preferred with over 5 years of relevant work experience
• Strong knowledge of insurance product knowledge, finance systems and accounting knowledge with ability to lead on significant new products development
• Knowledge and understanding of major systems components of the insurance and employees benefit business and the associated finance systems
• Excellent communication skills (written & spoken) and ability to manage multiple stakeholders (internal and external)
• Excellent skillset in project management, resource planning as well as change management with mind-set of continuous improvement and aiming for excellence
• Highly organized and ability to prioritize multiple tasks

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