# Senior Consultant Specialist

**Company**: HSBC
**Location**: Xi'an, Shaanxi
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Consultant Specialist.

**Principal Responsibilities:**

- Own portfolio budget/funding plan and maintain a single source of truth for assumptions and phasing.

- Track actuals vs forecast, burn rate, cost-to-complete; investigate variances and drive corrective actions.

- Run regular portfolio cost governance (approvals, tolerance checks, audit-ready documentation).

- Support business cases / investment requests with robust cost estimates and scenarios.

- Produce executive reporting and insights on funding status, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.

- Partner with Project/Programme Managers, Finance, PMO and senior stakeholders to align funding with delivery milestones and priorities.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience).

- Experience in project portfolio financial management (budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis) in a change/technology delivery environment.

- 5+ years’ experience in portfolio/PMO/finance partnering roles supporting multiple projects/programmes, with hands-on ownership of budgeting and forecasting.

- Strong Excel/financial modelling; reporting tools (e.g., Power BI) and PPM tooling (e.g., Clarity/Jira) preferred.

- Strong stakeholder management and communication; comfortable challenging assumptions.

- Detail-oriented with strong controls mindset; able to work to deadlines across competing priorities.

**Benefits:** HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment.

## Skills

### Required
- project portfolio financial management
- budgeting
- forecasting
- variance analysis
- Excel
- financial modelling

### Nice to have
- Power BI
- PPM tooling
- Clarity
- Jira

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