Manager, Analysis and Insight, MENAT (UAE National)

Manager, Analysis & Insight, MENAT (UAE National)

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Global Finance is integral to HSBC’s purpose and strategy, playing a valued role in managing costs and deploying capital in the most effective way. Our global team of finance professionals’ partner with the business to provide trusted insights and forward-looking analysis; accuracy; efficiency and control to frame and influence business decisions. We are currently seeking a high caliber professional to join our team as an Analyst, Strategic Cost Management, MENAT.

Role purpose

The main purpose of this role is to support the regional head of Analysis & Insight (A&I) in the development and delivery of insightful MI for a variety of Regional and Group stakeholders to support commercial, capital and strategic decisions. 

Principal responsibilities

• Produce a number and range of management information reports relating to financial performance to ExCo, Board, and regulators, concurrently and within a short time frame due to tight timelines, without compromising the quality of data
• Deliver insightful peer analysis and commentaries on the UAE banking sector to support UAE ExCo and HBME Board decision making
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis to help decision support, highlighting risks and opportunities to the delivery of financial plans
• Provide guidance to the offshore team to ensure optimum utilization of time and resources
• Key activities include:
  • Preparation of underlying data through Excel spreadsheets and other tooling
  • Performing analytical reviews including key variance analysis
  • Presenting data in chart and tabular format suitable for executive use, including ownership of final PowerPoint slides or Word document sections where necessary
  • Preparing insightful and accurate commentary
  • Retrieving and reviewing datapoints from sources including Finance systems (e.g. TM1), inputs from colleagues and external sources (e.g. websites)
  • Reviewing and checking the internal consistency and appropriateness of work performed including understanding variances between different versions, and checking excel data matches PowerPoint presentations.
  • Clarifying requirements upfront and setting up review meetings with managers and peers to facilitate the review and progress of work in a timely manner
• Support our Innovation agenda and lead on these by being SMEs for tooling such as QlikSense, Monday.com and other tools.
• Support our control environment by understanding our risk and control framework, and by contributing to the development and improvement of processes including key EUCs.