HSBC Group

Open positions: 1

Global Career Band: 5IC

Why join us? 

Join HSBC, a leading global bank, and play a pivotal role in driving innovation and insights within our Retail Banking & Wealth Management for Hong Kong.

The Data and Analytics team at HSBC is integral to transforming data into actionable business value. We're building a best-in-class data ecosystem, from robust data lakes to insightful visualizations, empowering the business to make informed decisions. You'll be at the forefront of this journey, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration, and leveraging agile methodologies to continuously refine our data models.

The Opportunity:  

Business Consulting job family is structured to address end-to-end business needs. Members of this Job Family are differentiated by their capability of providing the required consultation & work with end-business by way of assessing the requirements, identifying the right analytical solution that can solve for the business problem, and developing the same for execution – often covering areas of business growth, improving customer experience, limiting risk exposure, enhancing internal business processes etc.,. They are required to, as necessary, embed agile & exploratory practices into their approach as needed, and retain the flexibility to change track to adopt other solutions based on changed scenarios, in order to deliver on effective results. This talent group can be tapped into for providing solutions for varying areas including improving existing processes, technology and approaches by embedding exploratory & analytics & taking it forward with a consulting mind set.     

What you’ll do:     

• Focus on driving efficiency gains and enhancement of processes.

• Partner with the business effectively to drive data driven decisions and generate value.

• Also drive business benefit through self-initiated projects.

• You will work closely with stakeholders and other functions within WPB and Fraud to develop innovative and actionable models which help to manage fraud risk. The solutions we deliver need to manage risk effectively, be commercially focused, scalable across our many markets and lines of business and stand up to the rigors of internal and external scrutiny and review.

• Support the development and deployment of models and analytical products to manage and mitigate financial crime risk.

• Manage model risk through the application of controls and standards.

• Interpret and manipulate large data set to extract trends and identify issues and risk.

• Use data visualization techniques to present complex ideas and provide self-service analytics.

• Apply relevant analytical methods / algorithms to get actionable insights from HSBC's internal (both structured and unstructured) and external data sources.

• Partner with IT / Data Engineering teams to create deployment road-map.

• Provide actionable solutions with clear articulation of recommendations for the business stakeholders across geographies.

• Independently manage delivery of analytics projects by working with business partners across regions / geographies.

• Work in an agile model in a cross functional set-up. 

What you will need to succeed in the role:       

• PhD or Masters Degree level educated (or relevant work experience) in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or any other quantitative discipline.

• Strong analytical skills with business analysis experience or equivalent. Indepth knowledge and understanding of financial-services/ banking-operations is a must.

• Proven leadership track record in dynamic/changing banking environments and matrix structure

• Ability to nurture strong relationships with stakeholders, both internally and externally.Strong project management skills.

• Exceptionally strong organizational, problem-solving & inter-personal skills. Ability to communicate clearly across various levels.

• Advanced analytical techniques e.g. regression analysis, predictive analysis, data mining, machine learning.

• Experience in advanced analytical techniques e.g. regression analysis, predictive analysis, data mining, machine learning like Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, Decision trees.

• Experience in one or more of the following tools: SAS, Python, Spark, SQL, Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Experience designing and refining prompts for LLMs (e.g., GPT, Gemini) to automate business tasks like summarization.

• Domain experience in financial crime and Risk would be an advantage (Fraud, Anti Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Sanctions).

• Strong analytical thought process and aptitude for creative problem solving.

• Agile methodologies.

Please refer the Candidate User Guide in the below link to understand your own journey as a candidate.

https://hsbchrdirect.service-now.com/esc?id=kb_article&table=kb_knowledge&sysparm_article=KB0184596&sys_kb_id=712b5f041b1f82908d3a0fe7ec4bcbd6

You’ll achieve more at HSBC

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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