Senior Business Analyst - Pricing Product - HSBC

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst - Pricing Product

Location: Edinburgh

Rate: Competitive

Duration: 6 months (with potential for extension)

About the Role

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Business Analyst within the Pricing domain supporting Product Management to enable the execution of strategy across Pricing, FX and Rates data to drive trusted source strategy, digital strategy, consumer growth agenda, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and lead the requirements analysis and solution design effort across multiple work streams, delivered within agreed timelines, scope and budget
• Manage and lead all assigned change projects in line with HSBC standards: detailed project plans; risk & issues, appropriate documentation and sign offs; and regular status reporting / escalation to relevant stakeholder’s / steering committees
• Manage and lead contending priorities across multiple stakeholders and consumers to ensure appropriate prioritization aligned to the strategy of the business
• Coordinate HSBC (Service Delivery/ Change) and external resources (data vendors / IT vendors) to successfully execute projects
• Coordinate, prioritise and report on work stream deliverables as required
• Engage with the relevant business teams, Data Operations management and other business change and IT teams to ensure requirements are fully understood, documented and signed off before being designed and implemented
• Ensure that functional level preparation and testing of solutions is carried out as required for new and existing processes. Undertake and supervise data validation and analysis as needed. Co-ordinate and provide guidance and support for user acceptance testing to Service Delivery staff
• Ensure Operational Readiness is tracked and achieved with necessary sign offs gained
• Lead the determination of outcomes and benefits across data producer and data consumer landscapes associated with trusted source adoption including financial and budgetary analysis to unlock business case strategies and composition
• The role holder will be challenged to identify solutions to problems and work with other stakeholders to deliver change into the Service Delivery environment. At all times, they will seek to improve existing processes and implement new processes in line with best practice
• Contribute to ensure the Data Operations Product team is seen as a thought leader for the design of effective data services, and as delivering tangible improvements for the MSS business.
• Role-model the Data & Reg Reporting vision, to instil a culture that inspires and engages people with the HSBC Values and goals as the basis of inclusive, high performing, customer-centric teams.

Knowledge

• Background in Investment Banking and Fund Services with working knowledge of Pricing and Reference Data, and its application within these businesses
• Knowledge of pricing and reference data Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions such as Gresham Prime EDM (preferable), Bloomberg Data Management Services (BDMS), Golden Source
• Knowledge of mainstream pricing and reference data vendor services (e.g. LSEG Datascope Select and Bloomberg Per-Security) offerings is an advantage
• Expert knowledge and understanding of the business and IT change lifecycles
• Expert knowledge and application of Business Analysis disciplines including business case composition, requirements engineering, user story capture, process mapping, solution design, testing and implementation
• Ability to research information and analyse data to arrive at valid conclusions, recommendations and courses of action
• Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Strong technical aptitude with excellent knowledge in Microsoft Office, SharePoint and project management tools including JIRA and Confluence
• Strong technical aptitude of MI, analytical and data visualisation services such as Qlik, Power BI and Tableau
• Conceptual and Logical data modelling
• Functional / Technical story writing

Experience

• At least 5 years in a similar change and/or product role in a fast paced Agile and Scrum delivery environment
• Proven experience in a consultancy or solutions analysis environment with specialisation in business analysis
• Proven success in delivery and/or product roles across multiple projects
• Proven ability to understand and resolve complex issues, working with large and complex data sets
• Proven track record of solution design for complex data and system architecture challenges
• Proven ability in working across multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural, diverse work environments
• Proven track record of training and supporting team members to understand and resolve technical issues
• Experience of working with global sites and cultures
• Experience of external third-party liaison in a product and/or delivery capacity

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

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Please note, in the event of a high volume of applications for this role, we will not be able to respond to each individual applicant. Unfortunately, if you have not been contacted within 7 days we will not be progressing with your application. Thank you for your understanding.