Senior Product Controller (GFOC)

Your responsibilities

• To provide timely, accurate, fully substantiated and compliant financial and management reporting, through:

• PnL end to end process performance for particular trading desks within the Global Markets business.

• This would include review of New Trade P&L, market environment P&L, carry P&L, and cancel and amend P&L.

• Production of accurate Value-at-Risk (VaR) / non-VaR P&L attribution for use in the back testing process for particular trading desks within Global Markets.

• Upload of the results for review by management and preparation of commentary and analysis.

• Balance Sheet Analysis, control and oversight.

• Understanding Financial Reporting and Accounting of Treasury Products.

• Validation of the ledger currency risk, PnL sell off and funding.

• Making Daily and Month end adjustment.

• Coordination with Front Office, Valuation Control and Accounting Control.

• Month end General Ledger closure and substantiation of the Balance Sheet.

• Reengineering and streamlining processes as part of the move to achieve economies of scale and increased service quality.

• Submission of periodic returns, MI and KRI’s.

• Required to work closely with colleagues in the Product Control function, onshore Product Control teams and other support functions.

• Required to communicate effectively with people at various levels of seniority and different backgrounds in a challenging but collegiate environment.

• Provide and obtain feedback from line manager at least once a quarter.

• Demonstrate high quality team work with other teams in GFC and onshore Product Control teams.

• Ensure that there is full compliance with the Global Markets FIM.

• Integrity, conduct and performance against ethical standards.

• Documented knowledge of the role.

• Facilitate automation of manual processes to improve productivity.

• Prompt resolution of problem issues and management queries related to the relevant product lines.

• The annual Internal Audit review will determine whether the team is in full compliance with the Global Markets FIM.

• To act with a high levels of integrity, conduct and performance against ethical standards.

Our requirements

About the project

Global Markets Product Control is a division of Global Banking and Markets Finance responsible for the production and independent validation of Global Markets' profit and loss and balance sheet. In this regard, Product Control will ensure, inter alia, that accounting policies are correctly and consistently applied, and that Trading portfolios are appropriately valued. The daily process involves daily & monthly P&L and Balance Sheet reconciliations and substantiation as well as reporting activities and close engagement with various senior stakeholders in Product control, IT, Operations, Change and Business to meet business requirements as they may arise.

Observance of Internal Controls

• Maintains HSBC internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators.

• Incumbent is an ‘insider’ for dealing purposes and subject to strict controls and confidentiality.

• Complies with Group Finance Functional Instruction Manuals and Group SOX requirements and enforces reporting sites’ compliance with certain areas of the required internal controls.

• The incumbent will also adhere to and be able to demonstrate adherence to internal controls. This will be achieved by adherence to all relevant procedures, keeping appropriate records and, where appropriate, by the timely implementation of internal and external audit points, including issues raised by external regulators.

• The incumbent will implement the Group compliance policy by containing compliance risk in liaison with Global Head of Compliance, Global Compliance Officer, Area Compliance Officer or Local Compliance Officer. The term ‘compliance’ embraces all relevant financial services laws, rules and codes with which the business has to comply.

• This will be achieved by adhering to all relevant processes/procedures and by liaising with Compliance department about new business initiatives at the earliest opportunity. Also and when applicable, by ensuring adequate resources are in place and training is provided, fostering a compliance culture and optimising relations with regulators.