HSBC: Business Analyst

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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 organizations 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 realize their ambitions.

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

Principal responsibilities

• Employs an improvement mindset to identify and define issues or problems that are less obvious; participates actively and constructively in brainstorming meetings where problems are discussed and / or resolved
• Brings structure and order to undefined problems and/or large-scale problems, making them easier to address and solve. Uses systemic thinking and creativity in devising solution options
• Evaluates relative costs, benefits and obstacles of potential solutions before implementing
• Articulates or translates complex information in clear, meaningful and structured way to suit audience. Understands the Group’s priorities, business drivers, competitors and competitive strategy to help drive strategically aligned solutions, considering aspects of risk/reward.
• Questions small-scale business decisions that do not demonstrate alignment to the Group’s commercial strategy
• Anticipates issues and risks and acts to mitigate these quickly. Handles any unforeseen roadblocks swiftly and effectively
• Thinks ahead to identify potential risks to service or performance and deals with them proactively; effectively manages review processes to identify quality issues early
• Builds effective working relationships with analysis and design teams in our delivery partners and works well with external partners
• Often acts as an expert across multiple projects or programmes simultaneously, guiding the teams on their requirements gathering, design, change or implementation approach. May conduct one off business research and analysis tasks related to programme or project scope.

• Transformation skills (BA skills, Process Mapping, Data analysis and knowledge of SQL, Agile- experience with Agile Ways of Working, JIRA, Confluence)
• Cross functional Stakeholder Management (Business, IT, Data, Ops etc)
• Strong business analysis, requirements gathering and design technique skills. Change management and implementation management techniques and approaches
• Basic business reengineering knowledge. Knowledge of Asset Management or related domains like Wealth management, Capital Markets, Investment Banking.
• Also, experience in SQL, Tableau, Python would be needed.
• Relevant experience in a business analysis role working on complex projects across countries or regions
• Overall financial services industry knowledge with specific functional expertise. Experience in business analysis, solution design, change & implementation or consulting activities
• Experience in Change Adoption processes - Plan and implement change intervention to enable smooth transition and embed changes and transition to business as usual, from requirements gathering, communications through to training the final user
• Experience with transformation changes design & initiation (D&I) are an advantage. Experience gathering requirements and conducting design activity, with a mix of business, operations and technology focused projects

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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