
Business Analyst
at HSBC
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HSBC is seeking a high-calibre Business Analyst to join the CIB D&A Data, Analytics & CRM function to deliver a broad range of analytics use cases. The role covers requirements gathering, documenting solution designs, assisting data analysts and engineers with data acquisition and processing, and testing for deployment. You will support change management activities, manage multiple projects, and oversee implementation readiness and benefits realisation while adhering to compliance and risk controls. The role may involve stakeholder engagement across business and IT, and potential line management of junior resources within the project teams.
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We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Business Analyst.
CIB D&A Data, Analytics & CRM is a world class “data-driven” organization that provides trusted data insights and packaged consumable insights to deliver business value and great customer experience.
Delivering value to the business requires access to a range of specialised Data & Analytics skills in locations across the globe. In delivering against a complex and evolving book of work the CIB D&A team need to have access to, maintain and develop the best talent in a highly competitive jobs market.
CIB D&A is looking for Business Analysts that will work on the end-to-end flow of a broad range of analytics use cases, to deliver real business value. From engaging with business stakeholders and understanding the problem, assisting data analysts and engineers in acquiring and processing the data, building and testing the appropriate model, to overseeing the deployment into production. We need people with experience of the full range of business analysis skills, from supporting the development of business cases, gathering requirements, documenting solution designs and testing.
In this role you will:
- Responsible for requirements gathering, documentation of solution design, documenting and executing test scenarios and performing a variety of change and implementation management activities.
- May work across multiple projects and programmes simultaneously
- May be required to support change management activities spanning from early change planning and audience analysis; through to designing and delivering change interventions (e.g., communications, training, support, organization alignment); and tracking.
- Taking actions on change readiness, adoption, and feedback. They are also ultimately responsible for Implementation Management, including planning, controlling, and reporting on implementation of the change ‘product’, focusing on accelerating benefits and minimizing risk during deployment. Implementation activities will also include managing implementation readiness and managing the early stages of implementation (e.g. pilot).
- Business Analysts will often play a people / team management role within the projects / programmes they work on. As members of the Global Transformation management team, they will also have line or assignment management responsibility for a group of more junior resources within their resource pool (as related to their job family).
- Global Markets, CMB and Global Banking business lines
- Distribution Platforms IT. Elicit, capture, document functional and non‑functional requirements from business stakeholders. Map business needs to system/data requirements; write data mapping specs and ensure clarity upstream/downstream.
- Analyze existing business processes; identify gaps / inefficiencies; propose improvements. Work with cross‑functional teams (IT, data engineering, data modelling, operations) for the design, development, testing, deployment of solutions.
- Participate in agile planning / scrum ceremonies, backlog refinement, sprint planning. Support business change: stakeholder engagement, communication, training / demonstrations where needed.
- Internal clients to facilitate effective data analysis/migration and process change and ensure expectations are effectively managed.
- A good understanding of the control requirement surrounding data handling will be advantageous in this role
- Assess the operational risks as part of the analysis and implementation planning and execution in conjunction with delivery managers
- Adhere strictly to compliance and operational risk controls in accordance with HSBC and regulatory standards, policies and practices; report concerns or observations in terms of control weaknesses, compliance breaches and operational risk impact.
- Ensure all due diligence is performed to prevent adverse impact to customers and business operations
- Support documentation of risks, issues and dependencies in the RAID log for allocated projects and ensure that these are fed into the programme/PMO effectively.
To be successful you will need:
Functional Knowledge
- Strong Business Analyst with Financial Services experience
- Knowledge of one or more of the following domains (including market data vendors):
- Party/Client
- Trade
- Settlements
- Payments
- Instrument and pricing
- Market and/or Credit Risk
- Endorse team engagement initiatives, fostering an environment which encourages learning and collaboration to build a sense of community.
- Create environments where only the best will do and high standards are expected, regularly achieved and appropriately rewarded; encourages and supports continual improvements within the team based on ongoing feedback
- Develop a network of professional relationships across the department and our stakeholders to improve collaborative working and encourage openness - sharing ideas, information and collateral
- Encourage individuals to network and collaborate with colleagues beyond their own business areas and/or the Group to shape change and benefit the business and its customers.
- Must demonstrate strong business knowledge and sound business sense, and stay abreast of the industry, business-wise and technology-wise
- Stakeholder complexity – Business Analysts will often need gather requirements and agree designs across stakeholders, dealing with different interests and resolving disagreements and conflicts, and sometimes needing to challenge poor requirements and design decisions
- Solid working experience in data & analytics field Demonstration of understanding in technology trends, methodologies, and tools for data & analytics
- Experienced in technical product development and delivery using various technologies and can explain how they achieved this and the technologies used
- Understand and able to apply project management principles and portfolio management
- Communicate effectively with all levels of stakeholders, team management and conflict management skills
- Experienced in presenting to senior stakeholder in both business and technology
- Experienced on agile projects and understand the application of agile
- Understanding of how DevOps works and how to utilize in the agile process.
- Good in SQL, and SQL programming knowledge as a Data Business Analyst.
- Knowledge of ETL Process, GCP, Hadoop is must.
- Knowledge of on Python, Jupyter Notebook/Spyder/Pandas/Numpy/PySpark/ Scala is preferred.
Other
- Content heavy role – Senior Business Analysts must demonstrate strong business knowledge and sound business sense, and stay abreast of the industry, business-wise and technology-wise.
- Stakeholder complexity – Senior Business Analysts will often need gather requirements and agree designs across stakeholders, dealing with different interests and resolving disagreements and conflicts, and sometimes needing to challenge poor requirements and design decisions. They will often attend and lead these meetings or workshops with no supervision
- Understanding complex change or remediation activities
- Multi-disciplinary – Senior Business Analysts need to be able to shape business requirements and solution designs that encompass all aspects of the delivery (customer, people, process, policy, technology - system, data, infrastructure, etc). Senior Business Analysts may be required to work across multiple projects at the same time.
Opening up a world of opportunity
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