Lead Analyst, Financial Operations
HSBC Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China
Financial Services · 10,001+ employees
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About the role
The Lead Analyst will manage financial operations for the CTO team, including cost booking, reconciliations, and variance analysis. They will also act as the primary finance interface for stakeholders, ensuring regulatory compliance and driving process improvements.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have strong experience in finance, accounting, and financial control with excellent English communication skills. A continuous-improvement mindset and the ability to standardize processes are essential for this role.
Benefits
Full description
Some careers have more impact than others.
If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Lead Analyst, Financial Operations.
Business: GCIO COO - CTO L3
Principal responsibilities
Financial management
- Manage ASP CTO financials including direct cost booking, recharge and recovery.
- Ensure timely and accurate cost recognision, complete monthly Cadency reconciliations in line with accounting policy and adherence to operational risk control framework
- Review direct cost monthly, perform variance analysis, and proactively raise insights, risks and corrective actions.
Support PO Centraliation process.
- Provide clear executive summaries and management updates, supporting decision-making .
- nfluence stakeholders to implement new policies/guidelines, using strong coordination, negotiation and judgement.
Stakeholder engagement (local customers & global teams)
- Act as the primary Finance interface for China Technology stakeholders, partnering closely with global teams.
- Coordinate across Finance, Procurement, Vendor Management and CTO teams to deliver end-to-end finance outcomes.
- Translate finance requirements into practical actions for Technology teams, ensuring alignment to governance, timelines and deliverables.
Local regulatory & governance fulfilment (China)
- Ensure finance operations meet local statutory/regulatory requirements, including audit readiness and documentation standards.
- Maintain strong controls in Risk/Compliance to remediate issues on time.
- Maintain evidence packs and governance artefacts to support audits, inspections and internal reviews.
Process simplification & continuous improvement
- Identify pain points, duplication and manual activities across CTO Infrastructure finance processes.
- Drive simplification, standardisation and automation (where feasible) to improve efficiency, strengthen controls and enhance transparency.
Requirements
- Strong experience in Finance, accounting, financial control, planning and analysis.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- A continuous-improvement mindset, with the ability to simplify and standardise processes and support the adoption of AI and new tools.
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.
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