HSBC Group

Business: Analytics Digital and Architecture, Global Treasury GSC India.

Open positions: 1

Role Title: AVP- Developer Finance Change Delivery GSC’s

Global Career Band: GCB5

Location (Country / City ): Bangalore/Gurugram, India

Recruiter Name: Kiran .

Why join us?

• HSBC is a globally and systemically important financial institution.  Our transformation is about harnessing the very best of technology and innovation, combined with the very best of our people, to create a world class Finance team. We want to drive much better customer, control and efficiency outcomes, and retain and attract the very best Finance talent.
• Analytics, Digital & Architecture (ADA), Global Finance is a global team and Centre of Excellence in Finance responsible for shaping the future of financial analytics and engineering, driving innovation, and delivering unparalleled insights that empower strategic decision making within Global Finance.  
• The ADA team supports Global Finance by developing sophisticated, high-quality models, analytics capabilities, and innovative analytics, providing seamless development through to deployment pipelines, and implementing best practices in Model Governance and ongoing monitoring. The team is also driving the business architecture and helping IT with the technical architecture.
• With an impressive, varied book of work across ADA we are on the lookout for a Financial Engineer, with the primary objective to support this initiative.

The Opportunity:

• The job holder will be required to; work closely with our modelling teams to understand in detail our models, support modelling in delivering these models within our software engineering best practice standards, ensure our models are efficient and scalable, implement best practice CI/CD pipelines to ensure we have stable production deployments, support the testing and BAU support as required throughout model deliveries.

What you’ll do:

• Work closely with our modelling teams to understand in detail these models
• Support modelling in delivering these models within our software engineering best practice standards
• Ensure our models are efficient and scalable
• Implement best practice CI/CD pipelines to ensure we have stable production deployments
• Support the testing and BAU support as required throughout model deliveries.
• Utilise programming skills to automate and streamline software development processes related to global finance, optimising efficiency and minimising risks.
• Collaborate effectively with stakeholders across business units, IT, and data science to translate requirements into technical solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Maintain a strong understanding of current software engineering best practices, cloud technologies (if applicable), and financial markets to keep systems innovative and efficient.
• Provide strong analytical and problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges within the software financial engineering domain.
• Work independently and manage your time effectively to meet project deadlines for all developments.
• Communicate complex technical concepts related to software engineering clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Overview

• Develop Python-based solutions for Global Finance business teams, including but not limited to Generative AI
• Research and develop new techniques in data science, Generative AI and related areas to improve the quality of outputs.
• Perform detailed testing of prompts and data inputs and outputs.
• Maintain the codebase including frontend, backend, and algorithms in an engineering global team environment
• Understand and implement appropriate governance and controls required.
• Face off to the business and other stakeholders, including but not limited to the business line teams, Global Finance Analytics, Transformation, Change/Project Management, IT, Governance teams.
• Contribute towards overall strategy development for the team.

Stakeholder Management, Leadership & Teamwork

• Effective relationship management with stakeholders to ensure timely flow of information and continuous feedback mechanism - Managing the on-time service delivery.
• Work with business stakeholders to obtain deep understanding of requirements.
• Work very closely with business stakeholders for the proofs of concepts and testing stages.
• Closely collaborate with quantitative analysts, project managers, and IT to ensure solutions are performing as expected and delivered on time.
• Accountable for output being in accordance with the strategic outcomes as defined and communicated by the department’s senior managers and offer expertise to help determine such strategies.
• Influence and escalate key issues in an effective way to ensure timely resolution.
• Promote a culture of continuous, constructive challenge.
• Embrace change alongside the business to drive delivery of benefits.
• Promote a high-performance culture and an environment for knowledge sharing, learning and development.
• Be a strong team player with the capability to communicate effectively with other team members and stakeholders across varying levels of experience and across multiple locations – Promote collaborations.
• Represent the team in working groups and other committees as required, including presenting demos.
• Be proactive in volunteering opinions and thoughts in team discussions.

Operational Effectiveness & Control

• Manage all regulatory and compliance matters and the management of operational risk. 
• Manage and monitor compliance with all relevant mandatory standards, group policies and tools.
• Communicate change impacts to stakeholders and raise risks and issues to appropriate governance bodies, together with intended action to manage them.
• Identify and leverage opportunities to facilitate delivery of business benefits and mitigate operational risk.
• Manage project or programme resourcing activities.

Typical KPIs and Targets

• Activities prioritized and completed to required quality standards, in accordance with policy and procedures and within agreed timescales.
• Senior global lead’s and line management’s feedback on completion of activities and tracking of status.
• Feedback from key Finance stakeholders.
• Feedback from key second line stakeholders.
• Operating model and processes implemented to internal HSBC standards.
• Feedback from team
• Adherence to all relevant procedures, keeping appropriate records, timely updates to project lifecycle documentation as per the activities.
• Risks and issues log
• Project plans
• Adherence to Group Policy, with regular benchmarking

Management of Risk (Operational Risk / FIM requirements)

• The role holder will also continually reassess the operational risks associated with the role and inherent in the business, taking account of changing economic or market conditions, legal and regulatory requirements, operating procedures and practices, management restructurings, and the impact of new technology.
• This will be achieved by ensuring all actions take account of the likelihood of operational risk occurring.
• Also, by addressing any areas of concern in conjunction with the global lead and line management and/or the appropriate department.

Observation of Internal Controls (Compliance Policy / FIM requirements)

• Maintains HSBC internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points, together with any issues raised by external regulators.
• This will be achieved by adhering to all relevant processes/procedures and by liaising within the Finance department. Also, and when applicable, by ensuring escalations are raised in a timely fashion and to the right individuals and forums

What you will need to succeed in the role:

Software Engineering Expertise:

• Proven experience in designing, developing, and deploying software applications.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle methodologies
• Experience with Python is essential including frameworks for web development
• Experience with building APIs and microservice architectures is essential
• Experience in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines is essential.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is essential.
• Experience with large data processing technologies.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Familiarity with a compiled language like C++.

Data & Analytics Skills:

• Experience in data manipulation and analysis techniques.

Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills:

• The ability to identify technical challenges, troubleshoot issues, and develop effective solutions is crucial.

Communication & Collaboration:

• Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

Work Ethic and Time Management: 

• Meeting deadlines and working independently are essential for this fast-paced environment.
• What additional skills will be good to have?
• Understanding of financial markets and products is a plus.
• Experience with automation tools and other scripting languages is a plus.
• Bachelor/ Master Degree in Computer Science
• 7+ years of experience
• Project management

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