Head of Product Finance, Commercial Banking

Lead Strategic Finance at the Heart of HSBC UK

Could you shape the financial future of one of the UK’s most dynamic commercial banking businesses? HSBC is seeking a visionary Head of Product Segment Finance for Commercial Banking (CMB) UK—a pivotal leadership role reporting directly to the CMB UK CFO. As a trusted partner to the Executive team, you’ll drive sustainable growth, deliver robust financial insights, and help steer strategic decisions that impact over 700,000 customers, from SMEs to large corporates.

You’ll lead a high-performing team, collaborate with colleagues across the organisation and your decisions will underpin key business decisions, from pricing frameworks to optimising returns across P&L, loans, deposits, and risk-weighted assets.

At HSBC, we value difference, succeed together, and empower our leaders to take responsibility and get things done. You’ll be part of a vibrant finance community with exceptional opportunities for career growth and mobility—whether that’s within our 110-strong UK Finance department or across the wider HSBC Group.

If you’re passionate about building relationships, solving complex problems, and inspiring teams to deliver their best, we invite you to join us and make your mark on the future of commercial banking.

The role of Head of Product Segment Finance, CMB UK has a single reporting line to the Chief Financial Officer for Commercial Banking (CMB) UK. The role holder, together with another peer in the team will focus on partnering with the UK CMB Executive team leaders within HSBC UK (the ring fenced bank) to grow the business competitively whilst delivering sustainable target returns.

The role holder will also partner with colleagues in the rest of the Finance department as well as Wholesale Risk and Infrastructure support as needed to support the targeted business outcomes. The positions will have up to 5 team members at any time and also works with colleagues in the Fin Ops team based in India that support the reporting and analysis landscape.

The role holder will be one of the key leaders in the broader department and it is expected of leaders at this level that they participate in broader leadership responsibilities beyond their immediate team. A regular meeting of leaders in this community is held to drive key topics forward and the leaders’ network outside of these events to drive the department forward.

The role holder will ensure that the forecast for CMB financials is robust and a good basis of dialogue with business and finance leaders of the future performance and key decisions, built on a product by product financial modelling of customer segments; insightful analytical story-telling of historic product performance; work collaboratively with the business on its pricing framework, ensuring planned returns are deliverable;

and support a platform for identification and communication of opportunities to improve returns and optimise outcomes. This will applied to p&l , loans and deposits, and Risk Weighted Assets.