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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 Assistant Vice President, Financial Engineering, Global Risk Analytics.

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.
• Work with IT teams to assess production issues and direct them to the appropriate owners within the Financial Engineering or modelling teams.
• Co-ordinate progress of the issue resolution using appropriate workflow tooling (such as JIRA)
• Work with the issue originator to clarify requirements
• Assist FE developers and modellers in addressing the issue and help produce relevant documentation.
• Help to prepare test plans, scripts and execute functional testing of the models’ deployment.
• Work with users to collate relevant approvals prior to go live with changes.
• May need to guide modelling teams in adoption of the Financial Engineering coding excellence standards.     

• Degree in a quantitative subject and a minimum of 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in banking.
• Knowledge in Credit risk modelling is required. This would include understanding of capital calculation approaches, loss distributions, credit ratings, model development and deployment lifecycle.
• Proficiency in data modelling, definition of sourcing, transformations, controls and lineage.
• At least intermediate proficiency in Python.
• Proven Business analysis skills for the Agile delivery approach, including epics/user stories definition, preparation of the functional specifications, solution design, testing strategy definition and execution.
• Proficiency in JIRA.
• Prior experience in production support processes is highly desirable.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including high proficiency in Microsoft office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• 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.

Candidate with less relevant experience or skills may be offered a lower Global Career Band than stated above.

Due to the urgent hiring need, candidates with immediate right to work locally and no relocation need will be prioritised.

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