Business Analyst - Edinburgh - Permanent

Business Analyst

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Securities Services provides robust and reliable solutions that enhance performance and mitigate risk, today and in the future. Working with institutional investors, banks, insurance companies, governments and multinational corporations, Securities Services offers a range of fund administration, global custody, sub-custody and clearing, and corporate trust and loan agency services.

We are currently seeking an ambitious individual to join our Securities Services team, working together with colleagues to define, manage and achieve divisional business targets.

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for the identification, analysis and implementation of requirements for new capabilities used by FCTM to assess and analyse financial crime and reputational risk for all of the Bank's clients.
• Maintain a close and productive working relationships with the IT development team and FCTM analysts, and skilled relationship management with both internal system owners and external data vendors.

To be successful in the role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Proven track record as an outstanding analyst, consultant and/or project manager
• Financial services industry knowledge with specific functional expertise
• Extensive experience gathering requirements and conducting design activity, with a mix of business, operations and technology focused projects
• Exposure to business case development and a sound understanding of how design enablers underpin business benefits
• Extensive experience gathering requirements and conducting design activity, with a mix of business, operations and technology focused projects
• Experience delivering change to different audiences
• Strong experience of delivering change into different audiences and managing implementation in banking environments (branch, contact centre, trading floor, operations, head office etc.).
• Effective communication, inter-personal and negotiating skills
• Excellent decision making and problem solving ability
• Sound judgmental skills to identify and resolve problems
• Proven ability to work across regions whilst maintaining a global perspective
• Proven ability to work with senior stakeholders and business sponsors

You'll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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