Associate Director, Credit Strats - Wholesale Banking

Job description

Job description

Some careers open more doors than others.

If you’re looking to take an exciting new direction with your HSBC career, an internal move can open the door to many opportunities, allowing you to take on a new challenge, and develop your skills. Bring your knowledge of our brand to a new role and grow yourself further.   

We are seeking an inquisitive and analytical person to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Credit Strats.

There is an increased focus on using our capital optimally and managing credit risk in a way that both helps improve our business profile and ensures compliance with an increasing complex regulatory environment. The Associate Director Credit Strats will help deliver a global program to build and utilize a set of tools that leverage capital models to optimize our business strategy, and understand the risk profile at a deeper level.

You will partner with Product specialists across the regions - especially within Wholesale Credit and Lending and Group Risk Analytics - to ensure models are optimised to serve the CMB franchise and structural market conditions in each region. This will include working in cross-functional teams to implement changes to the technology stack.

You will be required to deliver best-in-class credit analytics that will support the frontline in delivering ambitious revenue uplift targets, leverage capital models to optimize business strategy, and enable deeper understanding of the credit risk profile.

Principal Responsibilities

·  Through statistical profiling of disperse datasets representing inputs into the return on equity of the business identify opportunities to optimise one or more aspects of profitability metrics with a focus on product pricing
·  Provide commercially driven thought leadership in to the design and calibration of the relevant credit framework
·  Partner with client facing teams in the design of capital & resource efficient products ensuring the tooling is available to monitor the performance of those products
·  Support efforts to drive culture change across the organisation to embed quantitative tooling in to increasingly automated processes in asset classes that are becoming technology driven in the marketplace
·  Liaise with relevant stakeholders within Wholesale Credit and Lending, Group Risk Analytics and wider stakeholders across the Global Businesses and Global Functions
·  Act as trusted advisors, partnering with stakeholders and providing constructive challenge
·  Ensure projects adhere to HSBC’s Operational Effectiveness & Controls policies
·  Comply with all required internal policies and external rules or laws, taking into account all of the relevant policies and rules applicable to any given business process

Requirements

·  Broad-based banking experience in financial services with preference for those who have focused on credit, rates or cash management markets
·  Highly numerate with hands on knowledge of coding languages e.g. Python, C++; and strong experience with software development
·  Strong commercial acumen and execution capabilities, with experience in a Strats / quant / analytics / data function
·  Experience with financial data and data analytics
·  Motivated quick thinker with innovative problem-solving skills
·  Strong verbal and written communication skills, with experience preparing and presenting recommendations to senior management and other stakeholders
·  Result oriented and team player who can foster strong and collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC. 

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