Financial Engineering Business Analyst

Job Description

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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 62 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Financial Engineering Business Analyst

Principal Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of the current and target states for the Financial Engineering Infrastructure and modelling processes
• Play a key role in communicating across teams impacted by the FE changes (such as Modelling teams, users, IT, CDO)
• FE BA will support the modelling teams and FE developers in the delivery of the strategic modelling pipeline:
• Work with the modelling team and data sources’ teams to produce artefacts such as data requirements, data model, data dictionary for the model monitoring processes;
• Work with the key stakeholder teams to produce business requirements and specifications for the modelling infrastructure tooling, innovation solutions and other changes;
• Support agile delivery and take a lead in agile ceremonies (e.g. as a Scrum Master);
• Define the business/functional architecture for the model execution and monitoring;
• Help to prepare test plans, scripts and execute functional testing of the models’ deployment;
• Perform assessment of the production incidents related to the Financial Engineering and communicate with the IT, FE and modelling teams to help progress resolution;
• May need to guide modelling teams in adoption of the Financial Engineering coding excellence standards.
  
  

Requirements

• Degree in a quantitative subject and a minimum of 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in banking
• Knowledge in Credit risk modelling for EAD, LGD, PD model types, preferably under the AIRB (Advanced Internal Risk Based Models) framework;
• Strong background in business analysis within change delivery and proficiency with producing artefacts such as business requirements, worked examples, functional architecture, data specifications, test plans etc.;
• Proven experience with data analysis involving data manipulation, definition of controls and lineage. Strong experience with Agile ways of working;
• At least intermediate proficiency in SQL, Python. Proficiency in JIRA;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including high proficiency in Microsoft office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and diagram-drawing tools (such Visio);
• Self-starter attitude with a can-do mind set, excellent problem solving skills;
• Experience in working with global teams across different geographies, culture and time-zones;
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to handle conflict and manage expectations.
  
  

You’ll achieve more at HSBC

HSBC is 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.

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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