Job Title: A V P
- Finance Operations
• Based in Chennai, this is a regulatory reporting role with exposure site and regional stakeholders. The purpose of the role is to successfully deliver:
• Site regulatory reporting for local regulators.
• Local regulatory projects to deliver streamlined and efficient reporting.
• Understand and document outstanding risks/issues in relation to remediation progress made
• develop understanding of impact on outstanding remediation issues and ensure within risk appetite
• Enhance and improve processes and remediate known issues identified during the BAU process.
• Ensure minimum control requirements are documented, performed and sufficient evidence collated
• Actively participate in investigations and analytics requiring deep dives and look at end to end processes and issues in upstream data. In this role, you will: Principal Accountabilities: Key activities and decision making areas: Impact on the Business/Function
• Preparation and review of reporting artefacts including variance and trend analysis, and executive-ready insights.
• Drive continuous improvement: interpret evolving stakeholder requirements and ensure reporting is fit for purpose, consistent, and scalable.
• Support delivery of reporting transformation initiatives (e.g., automation, standardisation, controls uplift, data quality improvements).
• Monitor developments in business strategy and performance drivers to maintain relevance of metrics, narratives, and insight.
• Provide SME support to reporting stakeholders across Finance, Risk, and Business functions.
• Partner closely with Finance, Data/Tech teams, and other stakeholders to implement reporting enhancements.
• Support internal and external auditors assessing the compliance of reporting framework.
• Manage and document policy interpretations and judgements applied within the regulatory reporting framework
• Establish and maintain effective relationship with business areas/key stakeholders and identify areas of service improvements by implementing regular calls and feedback mechanism
• Influence and escalate reporting/data issues effectively to drive timely resolution. Leadership & Teamwork
• Effective team work and collaboration across Finance and HSBC
• Ability to work independently and seek inputs from team leads/peers when face challenges
• Ability to generate ideas/develop solutions when faced with challenges
• Manage time effectively to enable adequate time available for personal development (i.e. training)
• Seeks feedback regularly to understand development areas – work with line manager to develop personal development plan
• Communicate effectively with the team members and be a team player Others Operational Effectiveness & Control
• Adherence to Group policies, audit, controls, and compliance requirements including
• To continually 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
• Effectively manage change, plan business contingency and achieve cross-training
• Ensure process documentation and procedure notes are in place and updated regularly – these should contain procedures to meet minimum control requirements
• Ensure assurance process to validate completeness and accuracy of outputs are well understood and documented Major Challenges
• The increasing regulatory and disclosure requirements and being able to apply accounting principles to data to ensure accurate and complete outputs are produced.
• Enhanced focus on a strong, and automated (where possible) control environment, that is preventative as opposed to detective, surrounding those processes to deliver defined outputs.
• Managing conflicting demands/priorities.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms to a variety of stakeholders
• Broad role encompassing all customer groups, business lines and risk categories as well as a wide range of regulatory requirements.
• Ensure that potential risk areas are accurately recognised and provide assurance that solutions are delivered in a timely, concise manner, the jobholder needs to have independence of thought and lateral thinking Management of Risk
• To ensure procedures comply with Sarbanes Oxley, Finance Instruction Manual (FIM) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
• The jobholder will also continually reassess the operational risks associated with the role and inherent in the function and take action to remediate/mitigate risks as required.
• This will be achieved by ensuring all actions take account of the likelihood of operational risk occurring, and also by addressing any areas of concern in conjunction with line management and/or the appropriate functions. Observation of Internal Controls
• Maintains HSBC internal control standards, including timely implementation of self-identified and internal audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators.
• Jobholder 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 jobholder 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 jobholder 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. To be successful you will: Functional Knowledge
• Qualified CA (Chartered Accountant), MBA (Finance) or Engineering degree with interest in Financial Services
• Understanding of how to review large data sets and draw out strategic insights as well interpret data and identify trends/anomalies particularly in the context of business, macro-economic or Strategic/ Regulatory drivers, as well as the ability to work quickly & accurately to tight deadlines
• Knowledge and/or interest in Asset Liability Management, regulatory changes in a global environment advantageous
• Understanding of control frameworks and how to implement effective controls in practice.
• Strong attention to detail and being solution oriented
• Strong communication skills (both oral and written) and an ability to communicate complex ideas in a straightforward manner to a global audience
• Excellent planning and organisational skills with ability to adapt to changing situations and to understand issues quickly
• Excellent working knowledge of MS related products i.e PowerPoint, Excel.
• Working knowledge of Banking systems and understanding of relevant strategic/regulatory reporting framework preferred but not essential
• Good understanding of financial products and general accounting principles, and more generically the banking business, balance sheet and income statement preferred but not essential Hsbc.com/careers You’ll achieve more at HSBC HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.” Personal data held by the Bank relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website. *Issued By HSBC Electronic Data Processing (India) Private LTD*

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