Strategy & Operations Analyst/Senior Lead Consultant Specialist

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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be. HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 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 realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join the Strategy & Operations team within Markets (Investment Bank) Technology in the role of Senior Lead Consultant specialist, whose primary responsibility is to solve complex organisational problems and develop strategies across a broad range of subjects to better the organisation. 

The ideal candidate does not necessarily require Technology or Investment Banking experience, but a proven track record of solving complex, unstructured problems and articulating outcomes shaped towards the target audience is essential. The preferred candidate will have experience akin to roles in Consulting at Senior Consultant level, including roles directly supporting and advising a head of function / department / programme.

We are primarily focused on finding people with the right behaviours, ambition and values that fit well within HSBC. If you feel there are areas in which you don’t qualify, please still apply as we are looking to invest in the right person.

Strategy & Operations also ensures ESF Leadership Team governance and accountability are in place, and tackles operational matters that arise from running a business. Therefore, familiarity with operations, financials and resource management (COO-type skills) are desirable to support the ESF lead an ~300 person Technology organisation

Equities & Securities Financing (ESF) Technology is a global department within Markets & Securities Services (MSS) Technology and has teams in London, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Pune – supporting businesses covering Cash Equities, Electronic Trading, Delta One and Flow Trading, Equity Derivatives, Prime Finance, SBL, Repo and Futures. The organization is rapidly transforming both its people structure and ways of working to better align with our business and increase the speed and quality of delivery. We are adopting a DevOps model driving agile delivery and building a strong product ownership group. The 2021 change portfolio is approximately $150m (including FRTB, Service Sustainability investment, Risk remediation, Regulatory change, and other discretionary change).

In this role, you will:

• Identifying data sources, performing data analysis and applying data visualisation techniques to create compelling stakeholder presentations that provide transparency and support decision making processes 
• Performing data gathering across multiple teams, including definition of approach and creation of templates in Excel, capturing data required for analysis that does not exist
• Enabling the ESF Leadership Team to operate effectively, uphold governance and support the decision making process
• Designing and improving processes relating to Strategy and Operations in Equities Technology
• Driving strategy projects, for example, developing a location strategy
• Seeking ways to improve and automate our processes
• Supporting processes that may support the ESF Portfolio, including ad-hoc analysis on new demand, annual planning and data analysis of project spend
• Generating ideas and implementing them to progress our strategy e.g. cost saving opportunities