HSBC Group

GCB 4

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Our COO team delivers strategic execution for Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) across the globe. Through transformative data and digital solutions, customer servicing, and non-financial risk expertise, this team is where problems are solved, and careers are made.

CIB COO focuses on these key priorities:

• Protecting the bank, our customers and stakeholders by enhancing our operational resilience, strengthen our control environment, and improve risk management. 
• Driving operational excellence and efficiency by optimising our processes and delivering the transition to net zero in our own operations. 
• Enabling business growth exceptional service by enabling our businesses to focus on our competitive advantage and deliver transformation and digitisation across the bank. 

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Core Quant Associate Director .

Principal Responsibilities

Credit and Capital Management (CCM) is on an exciting journey and embarking on a multi-year transformation project. The Core Quant Associate Director will partner with Product specialists across the regions to ensure models are optimised to serve the Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) franchise and structural market conditions in each region, driving the build of an industry leading credit platform within the Felis Wholesale Analytics Platform. This will include working in cross-functional teams to implement changes to the technology stack and helping to deliver a global program to build and utilise a set of tools that leverage capital models to optimise our business strategy and understand the risk profile at a deeper level

In this role you will 

• Support the design and build of a state-of-the-art code library and development environment
• Utilise statistical profiling of disperse datasets representing inputs into the return on equity of the business to identify opportunities to optimise one or more aspects of profitability metrics with a focus on product pricing
• Provide commercially driven thought leadership into the design and calibration of the relevant credit framework
• Partner with client facing teams in the design of capital & resource efficient products ensuring the tooling is available to monitor the performance of those products
• Support efforts to drive culture change across the organisation to embed quantitative tooling in to increasingly automated processes in asset classes that are becoming technology driven in the marketplace

To be successful you will need

• Extensive experience in financial services with a background in credit, rates or cash management markets
• Highly numerate with hands on knowledge of coding languages e.g. Python, C++; and strong experience with software development
• Strong commercial acumen and execution capabilities, with experience in a Strats / quant / analytics / data function
• Experience with financial data and data analytics
• Motivated quick thinker with innovative problem-solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with experience of preparing and presenting recommendations to senior management and other stakeholders
• Result oriented and team player who can foster strong and collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders

When applying, please submit a full resume and attach your appraisal reports for the last two performance years. Your local internal application policy should be followed. For internal applicants in Hong Kong with less than twelve months in their current role, please also obtain and enclose the endorsement from your current line manager in the application as well; for more information, you can visit HRDirect and search for content "HKG: Do I need any approval to look for internal career opportunities?".

Opening up a world of opportunity

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

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Issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.