Fund Finance Manager

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Job Description

Job description

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, improved maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

HSBC Global Banking and Markets is an emerging markets-led, financing-focused business that provides investment and financial solutions. Through our international network, we connect emerging and mature markets, covering key growth areas. We partner with our corporate, government and institutional clients to help them achieve consistent, long-term performance. Our products and services include advisory, financing, prime services, research and analysis, securities services, trading and sales and transaction banking.

HSBC Market & Securities Services (MSS) provides comprehensive global, regional and domestic fund services including fund administration, global custody and sub-custody settlement and services and sits within HSBC’s Global Banking & Markets (GBM) business. Private Asset Operations (PA Ops) sits within fund administration and provides administration and accounting services to private debt, real estate, infrastructure equity and private equity funds and their associated entities.

We are currently seeking a professional to join our team in the role of: Fund Finance Manager.
A high-Level overview of the role is:  you will take full responsibility for controlling and managing the financial accounting and reporting across a range of real assets funds and segregated mandates including investments in real estate, infrastructure funds, joint ventures and direct properties.

The role holder will also ensure the HSBC values are present in everything they do, both individually and as an organisation. This will be achieved by consistently displaying the behaviours of: Dependable and do the right thing, Open to different ideas and cultures, Connected to customers, communities, regulators and each other.

The role has a hybrid working pattern allowing for home based and office-based working at HSBC offices at Lochside Way, Edinburgh You must be able to work from Edinburgh 2-3 times per week

In this role you will:

•    Ensure that fund pricing and financial reporting including management accounts and financial statements are produced consistently, on time and to a high standard across all entities.
•    Manage the annual audit process for relevant funds and entities, working closely with auditors to ensure an efficient and timely audit is conducted
•    Ensure appropriate controls over fund accounting, pricing and reporting are in place and operating effectively and that all risks are well understood and any errors and breaches are reported and actioned.
•    Ensure robust review processes are followed to ensure detailed review of accounts prepared by third party administrators
•    Support operational change projects impacting the business, including, but not limited to, changes arising from regulatory developments, internal operational requirements, control improvements and client requirements
•    Preparation of reports to Committees and Boards of Directors of Funds, entities and Management Companies

Requirements

To be successful, you should meet the following requirement

•    Evidence of being a Qualified or QBE Accountant in order to understand the preparation of statutory financial statements, management accounts, regulatory and VAT/CIS reports, etc.
•    Knowledge of Commercial Real Estate/infrastructure equity experience would be a big benefit
•    Working knowledge of Yardi and/or Investran is a desirable skill
•    Experience of working directly with clients in on/offline situations

HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme, and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please contact our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com 

Telephone: +44 2078328500.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism.  This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

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