Strategic Business Finance Lead

3 weeks ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia HSBC Full time

At HSBC, we exist with the purpose of opening up a world of opportunity. Our unique expertise and perspectives provide opportunities for our customers and colleagues through global connectivity.

We bring together people, ideas, and capital to nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world for our customers, people, investors, communities, and the planet we share.

As an HSBC employee in Australia, you'll have access to tailored professional development opportunities, competitive pay, an embedded flexible working culture, and a range of benefits.

The benefits include market-leading subsidised private health cover, enhanced parental pay, support when returning to work, subsidised banking products and services, bonus leave days, and wellness programs including discounted gym memberships.

Here at HSBC Australia, we have an exciting opportunity for a Strategic Business Finance Lead to join us in providing dedicated advisory services to our Wealth and Personal Banking (WPB) and/or Wholesale Business stakeholders, influencing business strategy and shaping our forward-looking outlook.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Oversee business equity story, including deployment of capital decisions, resource optimisation, and investment appraisal.
  • Track existing strategic initiatives, investment opportunities, and future business priorities, driving returns.
  • Lead AOP, Stress Testing, and Forecast assumption process with the business and provide Finance perspective on results in key governance forums.
  • Critically analyse business performance to define options that meet strategic priorities.
  • Use data, reporting, and insight to develop benefit cases and impact assessments.
  • Facilitate business reviews and track resulting business actions to completion, setting and communicating process governance and cycle timelines, defining key milestones.

Requirements:

  • Finance Knowledge: Product and market knowledge, deep domain expertise, value hunting, using models, financial reporting, accounting, and finance principles, regulations, domestic economy impact, understanding function, understanding processes which shape business plans, external market trends, cost management, investment decisions, financial services knowledge.
  • Management and Leadership: Stakeholder management, developing others, agile practitioner, personal or operational excellence.
  • Strong communication skills in areas such as business writing, verbal presentations, and storytelling.
  • A good collaborator demonstrating a curious and commercial mindset, novel and adaptive thinking, proactive problem-solving approach.
  • Digital and Data: Data-driven decision making, data-driven problem solving, root cause analysis.
  • Bachelor's degree in business, related field, or equivalent experience highly desirable.

Preference will be given to candidates who hold Australian PR/Citizenship or New Zealand Citizenship, or who can demonstrate current unrestricted work rights in Australia without limitations.

We value different perspectives, succeeding together, collaborating across boundaries, taking responsibility, holding ourselves accountable to get things done. Through these values, HSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are appreciated and respected, and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working, and opportunities to grow in an inclusive environment. Applications from First Nations peoples are encouraged.



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