Senior Manager - Financial Accounting

Your responsibilities

• Reconciliation of monthly income for the relevant business area

• Performing the month end close process and working with Business Finance

• Where appropriate, the ageing of outstanding items on the balance sheet and determining their accuracy/recoverability

• Work on the reconciliation and GL review processes/projects involving the manipulation of data and spreadsheets

• Calculation of amounts and raising of relevant general ledger journals for specific accounts

• Financial and regulatory reporting to group as required.

• Management information reported to managers and business areas

• Work on projects to automate and streamline areas of the month-end process

• Ad hoc tasks as delegated by the line manager and business area

• Understand and ensure compliance with all relevant internal and external SOX, regulations and procedures that apply to the conduct of the business for which responsibility is assigned.

• Assisting in the production of a number of highly sensitive financial returns and disclosures, which are used to calculate overseas tax returns and provide data to external regulators, on behalf of the fiscal branches

• Maintaining full system reconciliation processes, to ensure that data produced can be validated back to HBEU source systems

• Gaining a thorough understanding of Fiscal Branch activities, in order to provide insight and guidance to business areas including Front Office, Tax and Product Control

• Ensuring effective communication channels are established and maintained through regular dialogue with stakeholders (Product Control, Tax, Market Risk and other support functions)

Our requirements

Additional Information

• The HBEU Accounting & Control team provides accounting and reporting services, principally Global Banking and residual CMB businesses of HSBC Bank plc (Non-Ring Fence Bank), in partnership with teams in the Global Finance Operations in India (GFO). Specifically, responsibilities within the team include month end ledger close, Balance Sheet reconciliations and P&L and BS analysis with supporting commentary. Within this, the Accrual Accounted team is responsible for maintaining the financial integrity of the accounting books and records of the core Global Banking and CMB businesses. In addition, there is a financial control function for overseas fiscal branches that trade on HBEU’s balance sheet. The team is responsible for collating numerous financial data which is used to prepare a number of tax returns and MI schedules, for submission to internal and external stakeholders.