HSBC Group

Business: Global Ops Analytics - FCS

Open positions: 1

Role Title: Senior Assistant Vice President – Business Consulting GSC's

Global Career Band: GCB5

Location (Country / City ): Bangalore

Recruiter Name :  Lony Basumatary

Why join us?

• GOA-FCS is a powerhouse of Analytics, Technology, Innovation and Consulting delivering analytical solutions and is a preferred and trusted partner to our business/ operations. We are responsible for driving Operations and Business Excellence across Fraud & Credit Services (FCS) by consolidating, simplifying and continuously improving processes globally. Our focus is on solving problems using analytical capabilities and providing value-creating solutions with innovative and consulting mind-set. Our services fuel growth and span across data insights, operations’ & process improvements, business strategy, digital transformation, innovation – all with the singular focus to help operations achieve and sustain maximum value and ultimately cater to best-in-class customer experience. GOA-FCS is organized into three primary functional areas that power overall customer experience – UWS, Collections and Fraud. We support 23+ countries globally and our workforce with 100+ headcount has rich experience and is a blend of top talent and diversity to deliver trusted insights and broad capabilities. “Smarter insights and stronger outcomes” is the motto.

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:

• Sees the 'bigger picture' and assesses relationships between recommended projects and business performance. Good understanding of business domain, functional goals.
• Ensure the integration of feature work is sequenced and prioritised correctly.
• The role holder will be expected to understand key business goals & priorities at top of the house level and distil it down to specific goals for specific business partners.
• Need to understand business and operations to initiate projects from GAC – Ops analytics and assign work to all his team members.
• Given the dynamic and ever-changing global business situation, the incumbent of this role is expected to surmise the business priority and enable the effective delivery of projects and analysis and meet the ever-changing business priorities.
• Facilitates iterative delivery and ensures there is a continuous flow of work across business and IT.
• Work with Team to ensure operational issues/defects are resolved and addressed in a timely manner.
• Engage vendors, discuss demands and ramp-up strategies, and align to FCS Strategy.
• Responsible for planning and overseeing project and program level reporting.
• Responsible for end-to-end management and monitoring of project governance and control.
• Responsible for carrying out ad-hoc projects under the direction of Department Head.
• Establish quality standards in terms of timeliness of the projects and accuracy of the deliverables and deployments to Countries/Regions.
• Owns delivery of high-quality modules for the business stakeholders across one of more regions.
• Support to develop a consulting culture within team, partner with functional business leaders in developing analytical strategies / decision making to achieve higher value.
• Closely interact with the FCS Operations teams from GSC sites and FCS Regions to understand the analytical requirements with minimal handholding and support analytical plan/approach independently to build analytical solutions.
• Closely interact with country and regional heads to set the right prioritization and ensure sustainable saves/ deliver tangible business value added projects.
• Contribute to the creation of a supportive work environment driven by people centric values.
• Build professional relationships with colleagues in other areas.
• Adhere strictly to compliance and operational risk controls in accordance with Company and regulatory standards, policies and practices, report control weaknesses, compliance breaches and operational loss events.
• Complete other related duties as assigned and support the Company’s Diversity programs.
• Ensure adherence with all the applicable compliance policies (Data security policy, AML, operational risk, Functional manual, Group Compliance Manual, Audit recommendations, Internal Control requirements, regulatory guidelines etc.) and business standards of Organization as applicable. Take timely action on Audit comments and be able to demonstrate compliance with Internal controls.

Major Challenges

• The role holder will be expected to understand key business goals & priorities at top of the house level, and distil it down to specific goals for specific business partners
• Need to understand business and operations to initiate projects from GAC – Ops analytics and assign work to all his team members.
• Given the dynamic and ever changing global business situation, the incumbent of this role is expected to surmise the business priority and enable the effective delivery of projects and analysis and meet the ever changing business priorities
• The role holder will be expected to go to the heart of the business problem under consideration, and provide a solution rather than simply present the data
• The role holder is required to take quick decisions in situations where complete information/ data might not exist and he/ she would need to apply business knowledge & intuition to make best case recommendations

Role Context

• The job holder has a key role to create a stable and effective operation of analytics against dynamic business situations
• One of key roles is to hire and retain good quality resources for stable delivery of analytical solutions to business and help shape future business strategy and define long term contribution to the group
• The role holder shall also be expected to guide and lead team members from a functional perspective and help them build up a strong business understanding. All existing applicants should have served at least 18 months in their current role.

Management of Risk/Internal Controls/Compliance:

• The jobholder will 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.
• The jobholder will also adhere to and be able to demonstrate adherence to internal controls. This will be achieved by adherence to all relevant procedures, keeping appropriate records and, where appropriate, by the timely implementation of internal and external audit points, including issues raised by external regulators.
• The jobholder will implement the Group compliance policy by containing compliance risk in liaison with Global Head of Compliance, Global Compliance Officer, Area Compliance Officer or Local Compliance Officer. The term ‘compliance’ embraces all relevant financial services laws, rules and codes with which the business has to comply.
• This will be achieved by adhering to all relevant processes/procedures and by liaising with Compliance department about new business initiatives at the earliest opportunity. Also and when applicable, by ensuring adequate resources are in place and training is provided, fostering a compliance culture and optimising relations with regulators.

What you will need to succeed in the role:

• Minimum 12+ years of hands-on analytics experience solving complex business problems using data.
• PhD or Masters’ degree from reputed university in statistics, economics, or any other quantitative fields
• Strong analytical skills with business analysis experience or equivalent. In-depth knowledge and understanding of financial-services/ banking-operations is a must.
• Strong programming knowledge of SAS, SQL R/Python, 2 out of these is must.
• Experience with Alteryx, Google Cloud BigQuery & VBA programming is preferred.
• Strong knowledge on Credit Bureau Data Reporting, Banking Collections strategy & Data Management techniques is preferred.
• Strong working knowledge on Statistical Analysis concepts and application is required.
• Knowledge of forecasting and statistical modelling techniques, market research and multivariate analysis tools (e.g., factor and cluster analysis, conjoint analysis etc.) is a plus.
• Proven leadership track record in dynamic/changing banking environments, ability to navigate through organisational challenges.
• Ability to confidently interact with senior management and communicate and synthesize information in a simple form.
• Besides strong written and verbal communication skills the incumbent is also expected to have strong presentation skills.

What additional skills will be good to have?

• Strong project management skills
• Model monitoring and validation Capabilities for traditional and Advance machine learning models.
• Knowledge of forecasting and statistical modelling techniques, market research and multivariate analysis tools (e.g., factor and cluster analysis, conjoint analysis etc.) is a plus
• Prior experience working on Visualization and dash boarding tools like Qlik/Tableau is an added advantage     

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