Senior Manager, Finance ESG Change

Why join us?

The Global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Finance Programme is a multi-year programme within Finance Change Delivery (FCD) to deliver the Global Finance Strategic Solution for ESG reporting obligations and internal monitoring and reporting capability for the bank. As a key member of the global ESG FCD team, this role will contribute to the transformation and delivery of the strategic solution covering ESG disclosure, regulatory and internal Management Information (MI) reporting onto the Cloud-based data platform and reporting from a control perspective. This role will lead and drive the end-to-end design and implementation of the controls for tactical and strategic solution development across all requirements in collaboration with ESG Data and Analytics Office (DAO) and Finance IT. It is essential that the role holder is familiar with the fundamentals of process design, risk management framework and control framework principles.

The role holder is expected to liaise with a large group of senior stakeholders across Global Finance, including ESG Chief Financial Officer (CFO) team, Business Finance teams, Global Businesses (GBs), Global Functions (GFs), ESG DAO to lead and deliver the design of controls for Global ESG Finance Programme.

Strong collaboration is required with the Design, Data and Operating Model workstreams within ESG FCD and across Finance IT teams as the role holder will manage and drive consistent controls for the ESG Global Finance Strategic Solution to comply with the processes, system architecture (e.g. FCDP, FDPP) and Finance Cloud / IT controls framework in line with the Finance operating model.

The role holder will enable ESG Finance to keep track of the control documentation across all areas of ESG reporting that would have an implication to Global Finance to meet its external disclosure requirements.

This role is a unique opportunity to work in an area of growing interest to regulators, investors, and the wider external market. Disclosure rules and regulation for ESG topics are evolving globally. There is a need to understand new and changing disclosure requirements, and how these can best be met for Group’s external reporting. As the ESG disclosures have grown in prominence, there has been an increased need for robust controls, assurance and oversight of ESG reporting and disclosures.

What you’ll do:

The jobholder will be responsible for the following:

• Drive development, review, and agreement of required control changes for the ESG and Sustainable Finance related initiatives that have an impact to Global Finance processes for both external disclosures and internal reporting and monitoring.
• Elicit control requirements based on to-be system architecture and operating model.
• Define robust controls in adherence to HSBC control framework, including design of new controls or uplift of existing controls, to ensure a sustainable control environment for various ESG processes within Global Finance.
• Develop and implement a robust delivery plan and approach for Controls workstream within ESG FCD. Monitor key tasks, delivery milestones and project RAIDs to ensure HSBC Change Framework is adhered to.
• Perform risk and control assessments on ESG processes at various stages of project delivery.
• Perform Non-Financial Risk (NFR) assessment on ESG and Sustainable Finance related initiatives managed by ESG FCD team.
• Contribute to programme testing approach and documents, including gathering controls design and operational effectiveness testing evidence during dry run or parallel run.
• Provide inputs to the Operating Model & Controls Working Group of ESG Finance Programme to support regular status reporting on Controls workstream. Prepare Control related packs/papers and present to senior stakeholders to seek approvals.
• Map target state controls to the processes documented in MS Visio and/or ARIS, ensuring HSBC standards are followed.
• Facilitate the Second Line of Defence (2LoD) Risk Stewards, internal and external auditors review and sign-off of control related deliverables.
• Lead and manage a team, including coaching and acting as a role model for junior team members.
• Maintain strong and collaborative working relationships across Finance and other stakeholder groups.
• Enable transition to Business As Usual (BAU), ensuring completeness, governance, and adherence to HSBC Change Framework standards.