Associate Business Analyst

Why join us?

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in most countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realize their ambitions.

We are currently seeking a high caliber professional to join our team as an Associate Business Analyst.

Principal Responsibilities

The vision statement for Global Chief Operating Office (GCOO) Transformation Services is "To be the Group's primary change partner, support the implementation of the Group Strategy and make change a source of sustainable competitive advantage for HSBC". GCOO change teams are at the center of the bank, working between Lines of Businesses and Functions on the highest profile programme from Strategy & design to delivery and change adoption.

Business Analyst works with business to conceptualize solutions, design through breaking down AS IS and TO BE processes and provide requirements that help to deliver a specific outcome, on time and on budget. Projects may be stand alone or part of a Programme.

What you'll do:

Innovation and Idea Management

• Propose innovative ideas, test and refine with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Support opportunities to streamline processes/governance and accelerate the delivery of the projects and acts on them.
• Bring innovative ideas to the business solutions / engagements by keeping updated on industry trends.

Commerciality 

• Aligns deliverables with the strategies and priorities for their business area.
• Thinking commercially to identify opportunities to develop business from new/existing internal customers.
• Consider impact and dependencies of the group priorities for the project and its deliverables.

Project Governance & Planning

• Articulate and support design business models, operating models and business case.
• Proactively support monitoring plan, risks and issues and escalate, when necessary, for an effective solution.
• Coordinates with stakeholders to facilitate the documentation of scope, quality, cost and effort, via effective written and verbal communications, with customized approach tailored to different audience.
• Support to maintain project governance, in accordance to Change Framework.
• Support efficient utilization of resources and project costs, within allocated budget.
• Support to track & manage project progress comprehensively including scope, budget, timeline, risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions and benefits / outcome realization.
• Proactively provide comprehensive updates, taking ownership of any assigned plan for the entire team.

Design (consulting) and Business Analysis

• Support problem solving approaches and frameworks (including target operating models, process and system transformation).
• Analyze current state, design the future state, validate assumptions with stakeholders to align with business requirements.
• Elicit requirements, refine and obtain sign off from stakeholders, including managing potentially conflicting requirements.
• Articulates or translates complex information in clear, meaningful and structured way to suit audience.
• Support design refinement to ensure compliance with requirements, design & execute testing to ensure comprehensive coverage of requirements, design and business scenarios. Maintain requirements traceability.
• Support plan & execute deployment activities including ensuring completion of business readiness, deployment pre-requisites, post-deployment health check and sign offs.
• Perform effective gap analysis to the required level of granularity based on different stakeholder needs / views. Develop and execute action plan to close the gaps assessed.

Delivery at Pace

• Build and maintain a reputation for reliable, efficient and effective delivery of business solutions.
• Manage own time via workload prioritization to achieve project/program objectives in the most efficient manner.
• Monitor and manage any off-track activities and bottlenecks, and highlighting/escalating as required, and providing solution options with cost benefit analysis.
• Accelerate delivery of projects by identifying and executing simplification opportunities.
• Ensure sustainable delivery at pace by maintaining team's morale, energy and monitoring work velocity.

What you will need to succeed in the role

• At least 1-2 years of experience working in change environments across strategy, design (consulting), initiation and delivery.
• Excellent problem solving & analysis skills including extensive PowerPoint and Excel know-how.
• Demonstrable experience of independent stakeholder management, especially impactful communication.
• Industry experience in implementing small to mid-sized organisational change and business transformation projects for banking industry.
• Preferably with experience of working in a banking environment for operations, system transformation, Organization Design (including potentially M&A) projects;
• Experienced in supporting the definition of a business problem, and solutions based on data.
• Experienced in supporting & executing end to end project lifecycle, Change Frameworks, Agile methodologies, Waterfall methodologies and best practices is preferred.
• Familiarity with project management & business analysis skills.
• Cantonese/Mandarin language skills is highly beneficial.
• Plus point if certified in one or more of the following; Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA), Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or any relevant qualifications.