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Financial Accounting

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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.

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