Job description Posted 17 July 2024

Job Title: Collateral Business Analyst

Duration: December 2024

Location: London – 2/3 Hybrid

Pay Rate: Umbrella: £706.38 – Inside IR35

Role Purpose:

Our client is seeking a candidate with strong knowledge of Collateral Management within the context of liquidity and funding, understand key liquidity measures as per the Group Framework (ILM, LCR, NSFR, PRA110, and other secondary monitoring metrics), Bank financial systems, related business areas, products and their strategic drivers.

The role holder be required to identify areas of improvement within the current collateral management framework and develop enhancements, that will be deployed across the Group. This will require ensuring new approaches are considerate of the group’s strategy and in compliance with all internal and regulatory governance requirements

Key Accountabilities:

• Being a driving force in Group Treasury’s collateral workstream. Taking ownership of key topics and being responsible for the development and implementation of collateral capabilities globally in relation to the Bank’s securities portfolio

• Facilitate discussions and work closely with business lines, regional liquidity teams, Markets Treasury and MSS teams

• Provide expert recommendations on collateral management and liquidity measures

• Be able to work independently and ensure there is alignment on the delivery of key initiatives

• Working closely with regional Markets Treasury teams to set and monitor limits as part of the Collateral Framework

• Work with technology teams to implement more automated solutions

• Rationalise and present to key stakeholders high volumes of complex information and identify key themes and issues

• Support ongoing capability testing across all in-scope entities. Coordinate UAT activities, including release and defect management. Escalation of issues in a timely manner

• Support with delivering Ad-Hoc reports and requests for MI

• Perform data analysis to and validate new approaches/methodologies

• Ability to query big data, perform data transformation and data analysis on large datasets

• Ability to visualise big data sets using platforms such as tableau, Qlik, or Looker

• Develop proof of concepts and monitor results for in-scope entities

Knowledge & Experience:

• Strong knowledge of Collateral Management within the context of liquidity and funding

• Understanding appropriate areas of key liquidity measures as per the Group Framework (ILM, LCR, NSFR, PRA110, and other secondary monitoring metrics), Bank financial systems, related business areas, products and their strategic drivers

• Ability to work independently, manage offshore resources and influence key stakeholders to ensure there is alignment on the delivery of key initiatives

• Experience within a Treasury department and strong liquidity management background within a financial institution

• Strong financial product knowledge and experience in fixed income and equity products

• Understanding of HSBC group structure and product range and excellent understanding of the HSBC Group operational structure and its global businesses and functions

• Self starter, capable of working independently with minimal supervision. An ability to rapidly absorb and refine new concepts

• Develop relationships with stakeholders and provide subject matter expertise and analysis to support decision making

• Experience in drafting documentation to senior management forums

• Requires agility, as well as the ability to work with ambiguity and to quickly assess and prioritise in a fast-paced working environment

• Well-developed capacity to process high volumes of complex information and synthesise key themes and issues

• Very strong interpersonal and communication skills, with highly developed capacity to influence other stakeholders

• Proven experience working across business, regional and country dynamics. Understands how conflicts can be managed to deliver assigned tasks

• Strategic thinker with deep knowledge of the financial services industry and global market place, who is used to applying product and industry knowledge to individual contributor work

• Resilient. Able to manage self and others with diverse perspectives to deliver to tight deadlines

• Culturally aware and likely to have exhibited such by delivering strong results, cross border and ideally across a number of business and product disciplines

• Excellent time management, planning and organisation skills, with the ability to understand the scope of dependencies across the Group

• Preference for candidates with proficiency in Python for data manipulation and data analysis

• Experience with tableau desktop/tableau server

• Understand dashboarding in tableau (containers, text, floating)

• Proficient with calculations (if, case, LOD's)

• Understand basic principles around permissioning and row level security.

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.

Either apply direct! Or please contact me on mohammed.wasim@tapfin.com.

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