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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. Our global team of finance professionals partner with the business to provide trusted insights and forward looking analysis; accuracy; efficiency and control to frame and influence business decisions.
We are currently seeking an ambitious individual to join our team as Regional Head of Liquidity Asia Pacific. This role will lead the liquidity team for the Asia Pacific region and having responsibility for setting the strategy for liquidity management, ensuring the liquidity policy is effectively implemented, owning liquidity stress testing, and ultimately steering the entity’s liquidity to ensure safe, yet efficient, management of liquidity from a first line perspective.
Responsibilities
- Partnering with stakeholders across entities, functions and businesses to manage the end-to-end processes involved in liquidity management. This will include engagement with regulators, driving local forecasting, planning and overall liquidity steering. To enable this the role holder will need to work with those stakeholders to align existing practices, with a significant global book of work already underway.
- Require a good understanding of the drivers of liquidity risk and how these elements relate to each other, constraining businesses in different ways, and in different circumstances. A solid understanding of the drivers of liquidity risk in a sophisticated financial markets business is especially important for this role.
- Oversee a team based in Asia, and will require strong communication skills to lead that team, and ensure connectivity with regional and global colleagues. The role holder will need to be able to interact and communicate confidently with senior stakeholders, including the HSBC Asia Pacific (HBAP) CFO and members of the HBAP ALCO, Risk Committee and Board.
- By executing on the consolidation of optimisation activity, and by leveraging their understanding of the constraints, the role holder will be ideally positioned to identify opportunities to take the best ideas in one part of the bank and expose them to other parts of the bank where those ideas can be of additional value.
- Understanding of drivers of liquidity resources across multiple products can support better risk management decisions, optimisation and ultimately reduction in costs. Working with businesses to understand their products and explain liquidity constraints, can drive better cohesive decision making
- By providing central support to existing teams, and creating a more unified process
- Liaise with relevant stakeholders within Entities, Global Businesses and Global Functions (e.g. business line FRM, Risk Analytics, HBAP CFO, Analysis & Insights etc)
- Partner closely with the liquidity teams across Global Treasury
- Actively participate in existing cross-functional working groups which today are driving optimization activity
- Demonstrate strong communication skills by influencing others, including peers, senior management, colleagues within the regions/countries to removing barriers to change
- Develop and lead both a functional and virtual team creating opportunities for them to learn and deliver against the overall department objectives
- Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the HSBC brand
- Be member of Asia Regional Treasury Executive Committee and Global Liquidity Leadership Team