React - useRef with TypeScript and functional component

You require to extract the ref type elsewhere:

interface RefObject {
  SayHi: () => void
}

then just refer to it in both places

const Child = forwardRef((props: {name: string}, ref: Ref<RefObject>)=> {
  const {name} = props;  
  useImperativeHandle(ref, () => ({ SayHi }));
  function SayHi() { console.log("Hello " + name); }

  return <div>{name}</div>;
});

const Parent = () => {
    const ref = useRef<RefObject>(null);
    const onButtonClick = () => {
      if (ref.current) {
        ref.current.SayHi();
      }
    };
    return (
      <div>
        <Child name="Adam" ref={ref}/>
        <button onClick={onButtonClick}>Log console</button>
      </div>
    );
}

Just replace the declaration of your ref with this const ref = useRef<{ SayHi: () => void }>(null);