Vice President – Business Consulting

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 62 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Vice President – Business Consulting

Principal responsibilities

• Sees the 'bigger picture' and assesses relationships between recommended projects and business performance. Good understanding of business domain, functional goals.
• Responsible for monitoring, reporting, and managing budgets and expenditure.
• Facilitate and coordinate all governance forums.
• Ensure the integration of feature work is sequenced and prioritised correctly.
• Facilitates iterative delivery and ensures there is a continuous flow of work across business and IT.
• Work with Team to ensure operational issues/defects are resolved and addressed in a timely manner.
• Engage vendors, discuss demands and ramp-up strategies, and align to FCS Strategy.
• Responsible for planning and overseeing project and program level reporting.
• Responsible for end-to-end management and monitoring of project governance and control.
• Responsible for implementation of standardization across projects and oversee the management of project documentation, and information sources.
• Responsible for carrying out ad-hoc projects under the direction of Department Head.
• Establish quality standards in terms of timeliness of the projects and accuracy of the deliverables and deployments to Countries/Regions.
• Owns delivery of high-quality modules for the business stakeholders across one of more regions
• Ability to work effectively as an individual and within a group.
• Ability to be flexible and productive in a fast-paced environment with geographically distributed teams.
• Adhere strictly to compliance and operational risk controls in accordance with Company and regulatory standards, policies and practices, report control weaknesses, compliance breaches and operational loss events.
• Complete other related duties as assigned and support the Company’s Diversity programs.
• Ensure adherence with all the applicable compliance policies (Data security policy, AML, operational risk, Functional manual, Group Compliance Manual, Audit recommendations, Internal Control requirements, regulatory guidelines etc.) and business standards of Organization as applicable. Take timely action on Audit comments and be able to demonstrate compliance with Internal controls.

Major Challenges

• The role holder will be expected to understand key business goals & priorities at top of the house level and distil it down to specific goals for specific business partners.
• Need to understand business and operations to initiate projects from GAC – Ops analytics and assign work to all his team members.
• Given the dynamic and ever-changing global business situation, the incumbent of this role is expected to surmise the business priority and enable the effective delivery of projects and analysis and meet the ever-changing business priorities.
• The role holder will be expected to go to the heart of the business problem under consideration and provide a solution rather than simply present the data.
• The role holder is required to take quick decisions in situations where complete information/ data might not exist and he/ she would need to apply business knowledge & intuition to make best case recommendations

Role Context

• The job holder has a key role to create a stable and effective operation of analytics against dynamic business situations.
• One of key roles is to hire and retain good quality resources for stable delivery of analytical solutions to business and help shape future business strategy and define long term contribution to the group.
• The role holder shall also be expected to guide and lead team members from a functional perspective and help them build up a strong business understanding.

Management of Risk/Internal Controls/Compliance:

• The jobholder will continually reassess the operational risks associated with the role and inherent in the business, taking account of changing economic or market conditions, legal and regulatory requirements, operating procedures and practices, management restructurings, and the impact of new technology.
• 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.