Valuation Control - Lead Business Analyst/Consultant Specialist

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 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 a Lead Business Analyst

In this role, you will:

• Analyse & capture functional & non-functional requirements for Finance and/or Product Control’s long-term (strategic) projects.
• Work closely with business analysts, Product Controllers, and system developers to define data sources and detailed business rules for Fair Value Adjustments (FVA/IPV/PVA), P&L, Accounting and Regulatory Reporting systems.
• Manage stakeholder communication in various working groups meetings.
• Understand the system data flows from Front to Back.
• Develop proof-of-concept or prototypes to help crystallise business rules, processes, and functions.
• Review and manipulate trade and reference data to understand the variety of scenarios that need to be catered for and prepare test packs.
• Provide input to test plans and testing strategies as well as input to design discussions and project planning meetings.
• Translating Requirements into High Level Epics and providing PM with estimates for Planning
• Involved in High Level Design and documenting in Confluence and logging all the requirements in JIRA.
• Working in PODs to help IT developers deliver Stories / Tasks and involved in providing the Functional Support in Production tickets / Incidents on rota basis.
• Involved in functional checks using SQL queries in UAT as well as post go-live period.
• Should be able to do functional analysis of the production issues, should be equally own production issues, user queries.
• Able to read and understand small code snippets.
• Able to interpret logs.
• Able to work with users on their day-to-day queries/issues.
• Stakeholder management
• Should represent application from functional point of view to stakeholders.
• Documentation:
• Should document each module with their functional flow and end user benefits.
• Testing
• Should participate in SIT, Smoke, Regression, UAT testing cycles.
• Own the business sign off process and make sure every production release is backed by clear requirement, full proof testing and sign off.
• Data Analysis:
• Should be able to do the Data analysis for the business data
• Identify different Data patterns, commonality between asset classes and make sure developer practice more generic development.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Excellent Understanding of Derivative Products, SWAP, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX, credit and equity businesses, Financial Markets.
• Understanding of Product Control, Finance and/or Regulatory processes and workflow.
• Disciplined approach to requirements analysis with a software engineering or computer science background (either at degree level or working for a software company)
• Experience in capturing, analysing, and documenting functional & non-functional requirements.
• Experience in MS Access, Excel & Oracle or Sybase or SQL Server SQL.
• Experience working within large/strategic front to back projects.
• Experience in prototyping or rapid application development or iterative development.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (written and spoken) – comfortable with detail)
• Cultivates a collaborative and cooperative attitude.
• Structured worker able to efficiently manage multiple tasks.
• Takes ownership of tasks assigned to ultimate resolution.

Must have Skills

• Knowledge/hands-on experience with FVA/IPV Adjustments such as CVA, DVA, Bid Offer, IPV etc.
• Prior experience with Quant library and knowledge around pricing and valuation.
• Project Delivery Experience, especially Agile
• Prior experience with Audit exercises (Internal / external)
• Experience with working with multi-location teams and building up offshore capability.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India