Assistant Vice President - Analytics - Bank

We have opening with our prestigious client HSBC-Bangalore-AVP.

Purpose of Department :

- Global Finance Operation (GFO) provides a variety of financial support services to business partners across the HSBC Group.

- This opportunity is to be part of a team supporting development and deployment of financial analytics across Personal Lending and Liabilities products for HSBC's RBWM business and to ensure ongoing service delivery per the agreed Service Level Agreement (SLA).

Principal Accountabilities :

- Supporting the Global Finance team in developing best in class financial analytics and deploying these practices across priority markets

- Responsible for developing financial models to provide actionable insight to drive and support business stakeholders

- Product profitability

Key Deliverables :

- Understand business and finance requirements and interpret data to provide meaningful analysis to facilitate business decision-making.

- Developing sophisticated and innovative analytics which deliver increased value to the business.

- Developing robust financial models which provide scenario and what-if analytical capabilities. Key areas of Financial Modelling include :

- Product profitability modelling

- Vintage based modelling

- Expense analysis

- Break-even analysis

- Scenario planning analysis

- Discounted cash flow modelling

- Post-implementation review of strategies to measure incremental value and quality of models for improvements in future iterations of model development for better informed decisioning.

- Providing well-articulated business insights based on available reports and data

- Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for any asset or liability product or areas in financial modelling.

- Provide thought leadership and prepare ad-hoc requests quickly and independently but also be able to prioritise these requests.

Stakeholder Management :

- Establish and maintain effective relationship with Business Partners and identify areas of service improvements by implementing regular calls and feedback mechanism.

- Liaise with Global Finance counterparts on analysis requirements and delivering the same within timelines.

- Understand business problem through discussions with various stakeholders and provide analytical solutions.

- Influence and escalate key issues in an effective way to ensure timely resolution.

Leadership & Teamwork :

- Create an environment within the team which fosters knowledge sharing and open forums.

- Motivate and develop (and recognise) team members in order to meet deliverables, manage staff expectations, achieve efficiency in operations and maintain work-life balance.

- Develop the soft skills and technical competency of team by putting together personal development plans for all team members.

- Ensure - key man- or concentration risk is mitigated through an equitable distribution of work.

- Ensure the team is adequately cross-trained and cover is in place for all key functions/businesses/regions.

Operational Effectiveness & Control :

- Ensure all standard processes are correctly and thoroughly documented in Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

- Maintain service delivery of the designated finance processes per the standards set out in agreed SLAs within the HSBC operating framework taking into account key operational risk (including people & processes).

- Continuous review of processes with the objective of improving the service delivery timeframes and identify areas of improvement.

- Adherence to Group policies, audit, controls, and compliance requirements including but not limited to declaration of secrecy, data protection act, health, safety and security, clear desk policy.

- To continually assess the operational risks inherent in the processes, taking account of changing operating procedures, staff movements, legal and regulatory requirements, management restructures, and the impact of new technology.

- Effectively drive and manage change, plan business contingency and achieve cross-training.

- Ensuring business continuity plan is documented, agreed with business partner and tested as per agreed timelines

Skills/ Experience Required :

Qualifications :

- MBA with focus in Finance OR

- Masters in Economics / Statistics OR

- Masters in Engineering OR

- Masters in Accounting (with relevant analytics experience)

Experience :

- 8+ years (with masters) or 10+ (with a Bachelors) with relevant professional experience in a financial services or consulting firm

- Experience in managing small team with high performing individuals with diverse analytic skill sets

- Excellent numerical and analytic skills

- Good financial modelling skills with experience

- Business change management experience

- Virtually leading and managing various kinds of analytics projects

- Experience in campaign strategy development, marketing, risk analysis, quantitative analysis, product profitability modelling and financial modelling

Skills :

- Highly focused on project delivery, attention to detail

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Strong collaborative, influencing skills

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills, open minded, flexible, pragmatic

- Good estimation and planning skills

- Ability to deal in a multi-stakeholder relationship in a complex environment

- Able to progress multiple tasks at the same time

- Enthusiastic, displaying energy, drive and stamina

- Willing to work with colleagues in other areas/ timezones where appropriate

- Prior experience in dealing with virtual business partners across the globe

- Excellent Microsoft Excel skills

- Experience working with large databases especially using SAS/ SQL is desirable

If you are interested for this opportunity,please send me your updated profile ASAP.

Ishika Jain