Sr. Manager Analysis and Insight, MENAT

HSBC Bank

Valid Till: 10 September 2024

UAE, United Arab Emirates

Job Description

The role holder will primarily be responsible for ensuring efficient execution, production and review and challenge of regional MI reporting, forecasting and financial resource planning, including consolidated insights and analysis of financial performance to various stakeholder groups, including production of Board and various other governance forum reporting materials. 

The role is additionally responsible for production of strategic analyses and SME support to the CEO/Strategy office, the design and new implementation of various projection tooling to support more insightful reporting and projection processes working across functions and businesses, and ownership of the MENAT Corporate Centre financial reporting and projections, including the SAB associate. 

  • Oversight of core MI processes (actuals, forecast, FRP), working with business advisory & insight, ALCM, Regulatory and GFC teams to ensure timely co-ordination and robust production of various internal and external reports and analysis.
  • Partner the regional CEO office, Strategy and Group Strategy team in all aspects of strategic reporting and ad-hoc decision support, including highlighting financial areas of focus, risks and opportunities and production of BAU reporting (e.g. to MSEPs).
  • Ownership of ad-hoc strategic analyses, modelling and related reporting including NDA projects or other ad-hoc asks (e.g. acquisitions, disposals, benchmarking, liaising with Group/external consultants)
  • Ownership of the analytical review and projection assumptions and tooling for the regional Corporate Centre segment, including investigation and variance analysis of actuals vs plan, forecast projections (including ensuring recoveries, eliminations, funding of trading books is correct), FRP and stress testing projections including SAB associate modelling.
  • Development of SAB modelling tools and liaison with other model SMEs within the team
  • Support the wider team particularly in times of cover on related consolidation and projection deliverables including ICAAP productions and stress testing R&C.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree from a relevant field.
  • 7+ years’ experience in large financial institution within Finance, including at least 3 years in a Financial Planning & Analysis (or equivalent business analysis) role
  • Experience in directly managing high volumes of internal and external Governance related deliverables and deadlines, and able to prepare consistent, high quality, relevant, formal governance papers (e.g. Board) fit for senior stakeholders.
  • Experience in designing, building and implementing excel based (or other) tools to support (i) consolidation of financial performance from multiple dimensions, key assumptions and their impact (ii) scenario and sensitivity models including business combinations / disposals and (iii) projection and sensitivity assessments (e.g. returns).
  • Experience in working through others, often at pace, to co-ordinate the production of analytical review materials and implement/drive change projects, including on unfamiliar or complex subject matter and across multiple locations.