We are looking for an AVP Finance, Control & Risk Enhancement on a 12 months contract basis. This role is extendable or convertible to a permanent headcount based on the candidates performance.
Principle Responsibilities:
The jobholder is responsible for implement and managing the Finance Reporting Risk and Control framework by:
- Establishing appropriate financial reporting controls based on risk assessments to ensure that the Group’s Framework is met and fully adhered to at site Finance level.
- Liaising with Finance teams to ensure that all key risks within their activities and operations are identified, mitigated, and monitored by an appropriate control environment that is commensurate with risk appetite
- Providing effective governance, challenging and reporting of key risks and controls within Finance.
- Monitoring the ongoing effectiveness of key controls to gain assurance that they are operating in line with risk appetite, regulatory and HSBC requirements. This includes developing monitoring plan, monitoring RESTRICTED progress against plan, executing control monitoring, reporting results and developing action plans.
- Monitoring the on-time completion of issues remediation and assessing adequacy of remediation actions are sufficiently address the risk implications. Issues include self identified issues by Finance, audit findings, internal control issues, and regulatory observations.
- Ensuring effective assessment and management of risk within Finance projects.
- Monitoring and validating key controls and reporting any weaknesses noted to management
- There may occasionally be exposure to other non-control related activities as well as involvement in coordinating audit activities, assurance review activities, preparing Board papers and other regulatory initiatives.
Job Requirement
- Degree in accountancy with five to seven years of relevant working experience in the finance or audit functions.
- Experience in Financial reporting, Finance Operation or internal/external audit in the insurance industry would be a plus.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills to work with a diverse group of colleagues at different levels.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office and Helios.
- Possess good understanding of SOX, audit, compliance and risk requirements.
- The role will be involved in system migration and is expected to in the various phases of system development life cycle to identify key financial reporting risks that are sufficiently mitigated by the design of the controls embedded in the new systems.
- The jobholder is expected to work closely with IT, Product, Policy Servicing, New Business, Claims and Finance Change Delivery teams to ensure timely delivery of system migration.
- The role will have ad hoc liaison with the Compliance and Control Office, Products, New Business, Policy Servicing, Claims and IT teams to closely support the issues resolution that could pose financial reporting impact.
- The role will also have regular liaison with other stakeholders from second line of defense and reponding to their requests as an integral part of the Financial Reporting Risk monitoring..
