Credit Strats Manager

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 Credit Strats Manager.

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 role holder will support delivery of 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 support the Credit Strats function in partnering 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

·  Support the design and calibration of the relevant credit framework
·  Partner with wider Credit Strats team and 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 (e.g. IT, Wholesale Data, Treasury, Finance etc)
·  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

Requirements

·  Minimum of 3-5 years broad-based banking experience in financial services, with preference for those who have focused on credit, rates or cash management markets
·  Highly numerate with good experience in software development and experience in a range of coding languages, e.g. Python, C++
·  Demonstrable commercial acumen, 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 of preparing and presenting recommendations to managers and other stakeholders
·  Result oriented and team player who can foster strong and collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders

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