Finance Business Senior Partner

-Job descriptionIf you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join our Global Service Center (GSC)- HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of**Finance Business Senior Partner - International Wealth & Personal Banking****Role purpose**:Finance Operations (FinOps) is an integral part of Global Finance, supporting teams around the globe through high quality delivery across a broad range of Finance activities. FinOps operates as one connected team of c3k FTEs (c35% of Global Finance) organised around key global processes; FinOps operates in multiple locations in India, Poland, priority and network markets. FinOps is currently undergoing a significant transformation to realign existing ‘global process owners’ towards the three future pillars, namely Accounting Operations, Data Operations and regionally led Reporting Operations.Business Finance Operations (BFO) is a sub-function of FinOps and one of the aforementioned ‘global process owners’, specializing in the delivery of reports and insights for the Global Businesses - these cover revenue and sales performance, cost analysis, balance sheet management and client profitability. BFO looks to partner with in-country Business Finance (BF) teams and align to similar strategic objectives to ensure effective finance partnering to the Business - both BF and BFO are transforming to the future Insight & Advisory vision enabled by a single dataset through FOTC and new ways of working.**Main activities**:- Prepare analysis, provide recommendations to seize opportunities for growth and mitigate identified risks- Lead in developing compelling executive presentations that recommend fact based and supported courses of action of decision makers.- Determines the financial impact of initiatives/strategic business decisions, and incorporate the impacts into future financial forecasts.- Design and produce regular and ad-hoc reports, dashboards and insights to help explain financial performance.- Collaborate effectively across borders, coordinate globally with teams in India, UK, US and more.- Partner with the business to create financial forecasting supported by underlying data.**Principal Accountabilities KPI and Targets: -****Service Delivery**- Review and preparation of the regional & country EXCO packs and other bespoke reporting.- Support Forecast, Target changes, Budgeting and AOP at functional and regional level. Requires good understanding of: 1) Finance Structure 2) Analytical Skills 3) Commentary writing, 4) Relationship; and 5) Senior stakeholder management.- Work closely with business partners to add value on emerging priorities for the Business.- Understand Business requirements and interpret data to provide analysis driving decision-making.- High interaction and exposure to Senior Global Finance leadership in Business Finance, including Regional CFOs and Regional Business teams and countries.- Contribute or manage new projects alongside BAU deliverables.- Ensure integrity and management of data submission.- Monitor operational timeline for preparation and submissions and other internal customers.- Write clearly and concisely to convey information accurately and effectively especially for Business commentaries around financial performance.- 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 SQL contributing towards the wider SSI initiatives.**Stakeholder Management**- Work with senior stakeholders across Finance and Change teams to ensure work stream scope and timelines are fully understood and syndicated.- Develop effective relationships with key stakeholders across Business Finance, Change Delivery & Business teams, clearly identifying required inputs and timeline.- Liaise with development & enhancements team, and Administration, Maintenance and projects team.- Ensure MI is provided to and easily understood by business partners MI teams.- Liaise with MI teams in Customer Segments & Products.- Balance demands and requests from different stakeholders against limited available resources.- Successfully engage in, and prioritize, work on multiple initiatives simultaneously.- Adhere to high internal service excellence benchmarks to ensure high customer satisfaction.**Operational Effectiveness & Control**- Adhere to Group policies, audit, controls, and compliance requirements including but not limited to declaration of secrecy, data protection act, health, safety and security, clear desk policy.- Comply with the bank’s and regulator’s requirements.- Continuously assess the operational risks inherent in the processes, taking account of changing operating procedures, staff movements, legal and regulatory requirements, management restructures, and the impact of new technology.- Take accountabil