Senior Business Analyst (Banking)

Job Responsibilities:

• Employ an improvement mindset to identify and define less obvious issues or problems and actively participate in brainstorming meetings for problem resolution.
• Bring structure and order to undefined or large-scale problems, making them easier to address and solve.
• Utilize systemic thinking and creativity to devise solution options.
• Evaluate the costs, benefits, and obstacles of potential solutions before implementation.
• Articulate complex information in a clear, meaningful, and structured manner for different audiences.
• Understand the organization's priorities, business drivers, competitors, and competitive strategy to drive strategically aligned solutions.
• Question small-scale business decisions that do not align with the organization's commercial strategy.
• Anticipate and mitigate issues and risks swiftly and effectively.
• Proactively identify potential risks to service or performance and manage review processes to identify quality issues early.
• Build effective working relationships with analysis and design teams in delivery partners and external partners.
• Act as an expert across multiple projects or programs, guiding teams on requirements gathering, design, and implementation approaches.

Operational Performance:

• Define requirements management processes and design detailed business solutions based on business requirements.
• Identify areas of impact on the target operating model and design activities to mitigate the impact.
• Manage requirements traceability through design and delivery.
• Utilize financial skills to develop a high-level business case, considering investment and high-level benefits.
• Manage change implementation activities, including business readiness assessment, implementation pilot, and actual implementation.
• Manage the change audience through the commitment curve with effective communications, training, and development.
• Support process reengineering efforts and provide detailed guidance on process design.
• Support program management with impact assessment for change requests on design, scope, time, budget, or effort.
• Support project or program resourcing activities.
• Allocate tasks and objectives to other analysts on a project or program.

Capability and People Development:

• Promote pace and energy within the team and lead by example.
• Understand and learn from varied viewpoints, leveraging differences between people as an opportunity.
• Listen, ask clarifying questions, and reflect back to gain a clear understanding of others' points of view.
• Encourage open and honest debate with tact and integrity, even on sensitive issues.
• Support others' design efforts and operate in a collaborative manner.
• Organize team engagement and motivation initiatives.
• Build professional relationships and networks within and outside the team.
• Seek opportunities to work collaboratively across boundaries.
• Manage a team and the performance of individuals against objectives and project/program plans.

Job Requirements:

Knowledge:

• Good understanding of business transformation frameworks and best practice techniques.
• Thorough understanding of the organization's purpose, values, culture, and fundamentals.
• Outstanding knowledge of HSBC Group structures, processes, and objectives.
• Strong knowledge of the external environment, including regulatory, political, and competitor factors.
• Basic knowledge of business reengineering.
• Proficiency in business analysis, requirements gathering, and design techniques.
• Familiarity with change management and implementation management techniques.

Experience:

• Proven track record as an outstanding analyst, consultant, and/or project manager.
• Overall knowledge of the financial services industry with specific functional expertise.
• Extensive experience in gathering requirements and conducting design activities, including business, operations, and technology-focused projects.
• Exposure to business case development and understanding of how design enables business benefits.
• Strong experience in delivering change to different audiences and managing implementation in banking environments.
• Effective communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
• Excellent decision-making and problem-solving abilities.
• Sound judgment skills for problem identification and resolution.
• Experience in managing resources using communication, delegation, and planning skills.
• Ability to motivate and lead people using appropriate management styles.
• Proven ability to work across regions while maintaining a global perspective.
• Proven ability to work with senior stakeholders

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