Senior Business Analyst

Job description

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If you're looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

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 our team in the role of Senior Business Analyst

In this role, you will:

• Articulates or translates complex information in clear, meaningful and structured way to suit audience.
• Often acts as an expert across multiple projects or programmes simultaneously, owning capability and guiding the teams on their requirements gathering, design, change or implementation approach. May conduct one off business research and analysis tasks related to programme or project scope.
• Be responsible for implementation management, including planning, controlling and reporting on implementation of the change 'product'.
• Identify potential risks to service or performance and deals with them proactively; effectively manages review processes to identify quality issues early.
• Use systemic thinking and creativity in devising solution options by anticipating the issues/ risks and act to mitigate; handle any unforeseen roadblocks swiftly and effectively.
• Understand the Group's priorities, business drivers, competitors and competitive strategy to help drive strategically aligned solutions, considering aspects of risk/reward and question small-scale business decisions that do not demonstrate alignment to the Group's commercial strategy.
• Bring structure and order to undefined problems and/or large-scale problems, making them easier to address and evaluate relative costs, benefits and obstacles of potential solutions before implementing.
• Be responsible for change planning and audience analysis; through to designing and delivering change interventions (e.g. communications, training, support, organisation alignment); and tracking and taking actions on change readiness, adoption, and feedback. Evaluates relative costs, benefits and obstacles of potential solutions before implementing

Requirements

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

• 8+ years of experience in business analysis and most recent experience preferably in the banking and financial domain.
• Strong business analysis, requirements gathering and design thinking skills with a mix of business, operations and technology focused projects.
• Agile expertise, requirement life cycle management and traceability, experience in digital transformation projects in a global banks/consulting firm/ Financial industry
• Asset management, Transformation skills (BA skills, Process Mapping, Data analysis and knowledge of SQL, Agile- experience with Agile Ways of Working, JIRA, Confluence)
• Adapt and adhere to the HSBC's ways of working and collaborate with array of stakeholders effectively and inclusively and liaison with cross functional team for programme execution.
• Experience in Change management and Change Adoption processes - Plan and implement change intervention to enable smooth transition and embed changes and transition to business as usual, from requirements gathering, communications through to training the final user.
• Effective communication, inter-personal and negotiating skills.
• Knowledge of MS Office and business analysis tools and techniques, knowledge of JIRA and Confluence tools.
• Create required artefacts and to expected standard (e.g. Behavior Driven Development (BDD) in user stories, end-to-end flow diagrams with touchpoints, Confluence documentation for requirements traceability).
• Demonstrate Leadership, support, coaching and development for Analysts.
• Lead planning analysis activity with optimal use of resources to help define and track metrics and KPIs for the product.
• Promote the "Scaled delivery" approach for multimarket implementation and use of customer, product, and operational procedural insights to optimize experience and propositions.

What additional skills will be good to have?

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) – If not held, you would be expected to work towards the qualification
• Agile Certifications
• Design Thinking

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India