# Assistant Vice President, Financial Accounting, Area Management

**Company**: Finance
**Location**: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
**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 Assistant Vice President, Financial Accounting, Area Management.

Purpose of the role: Global Finance is integral to HSBC’s purpose and strategy, playing a valued role in managing costs and deploying capital in the most effective way. Global Finance Centre (GFC) is core to Global Finance and provides a variety of financial support services to In-Country teams across the HSBC Group.

In this role, you will:

- Perform accounting events such as manual journals, which are key to the ledger close, provide robust accounting and business insight into TB analysis, exception management and book closure.

- Perform monthly and quarterly GRCA/FINREP reporting and manual returns.

- Analyse trial balance movements and reporting variances, providing clear commentary on material changes, unusual trends and business drivers to Finance stakeholders.

- Perform balance sheet substantiation and account reconciliations, investigating aged or unusual items and ensuring timely resolution in line with control standards.

- Drive process improvement and stakeholder coordination by identifying opportunities to simplify reporting, improve data quality and strengthen month-end close processes across regional and in-country teams.

- Support financial control and governance activities by maintaining evidence for key controls, responding to audit and assurance requests, and tracking remediation actions to completion.

To be successful you will:

- Cleared 2 group of CA with article ship training, or an ACCA.

- Prior experience in Reporting profiles is a must and exposure in month end close will be preferred.

- Strong knowledge of Site Reporting at Financial Institutions will be a must.

- Excellent communication skills, including experience of explaining complex technical matters simply.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate ledger movements, identify root causes of exceptions and recommend practical corrective actions.

- Advanced proficiency in financial systems and reporting tools, including Excel and relevant general ledger, reconciliation and regulatory reporting platforms.

- Strong stakeholder management and prioritisation skills, enabling effective collaboration with in-country Finance, Financial Control, Operations, Risk and Audit teams while meeting tight reporting deadlines.

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count.

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## Skills

### Required
- Accounting
- Financial Analysis
- Reporting
- Excel
- General Ledger
- Reconciliation
- Regulatory Reporting

### Nice to have
- Site Reporting
- Financial Institutions
- Communication
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Stakeholder management

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