Job description

Some careers have more impact than others.

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

Global Finance is integral to HSBC’s purpose and strategy, playing a valued role in managing costs and deploying capital in the most effective way. Our global team of finance professionals’ partner with the business to provide trusted insights and forward looking analysis; accuracy; efficiency and control to frame and influence business decisions.

HSBC Global Treasury is the global clearing house for HSBC’s financial resources. We proactively integrate, manage and steer our financial resources for today and for the future, whilst ensuring our prudential safety. Finance resources are defined as the cash, liquidity, funding and capital (including as measured by RWAs, leverage and large exposures) of entities within the Group and the interest rate and FX risks that results from the banking book activity.  We partner with Businesses and entities to provide sustainable optimised commercial outcomes to deliver the Group’s strategy. We manage the residual portfolios and risks with a mind-set of portfolio optimisation.  Our team lead a dynamic and inclusive culture fostering diversity of thought and where the best want to work.

We are currently seeking an ambitious individual to join our team as a Treasury Strategy EXT, working together with colleagues to define, manage and achieve divisional business targets.

Role Purpose

This is a truly unique opportunity to join at the beginning of building a new function within HSBC’s Global Treasury function that will have a material impact on profitability and the way we do business. We are looking for people who have worked in a strat/quant function elsewhere within the financial sector or who have experience of developing analytic toolsets for highly quantitative user communities.

The role holder will lead specific work streams to develop tools to measure and monitor risks to profitability and lead cross functional teams to implement changes to the technology stack. This includes, but is not limited to, balance sheet usage, funding costs, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, RWAs & capital covering multiple jurisdictions and regulatory regimes.

As part of a global team the role will involve working with multiple regional & functional teams with a view to articulating specific tooling needs, identifying best practice in terms of tooling and introducing those ideas and processes across regions. The role will have a heavy emphasis on the use of technology to enable statistical analysis and risk management and will include supporting teams focused on the enhancement of relevant models including liquidity risk, interest rate risk, RWAs & capital.

In this role, you will:

• Optimise resources across multiple products, entities and constraints is today limited by the capabilities of legacy technology and process. Delivering an enhanced toolset is expected to create a broader range of opportunities for the entity and business teams to improve the profitability of their segment
• Improve the toolset to allow faster decisions to be made as impact assessments will be les manual and there will be fewer “versions of the truth” in terms of the numbers used to inform decisions
• Enable elements of the cost saving agenda due to automation of complex dataset aggregation
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders within IT, Entities (in particular Global Treasury), Global Businesses and Global Functions (e.g. business line FRM, Global Risk Analytics etc.)
• Actively participate in and where appropriate lead cross-functional working groups to drive requirements and tooling adoption
• Demonstrate strong communication skills by influencing others, including peers, senior management, colleagues within the regions/countries to removing barriers to change
• Provide thought leadership on how to practically lever technology to solve business problems quickly
• Comply with all required internal policies and external rules or laws ensuring take into account all of the relevant policies and rules applicable to any given business process
• Ensure all team members are aware of their obligations with regards to internal policies and external rules including those relevant to money laundering (ML), terrorist financing (TF), sanctions and other reputational risks

Requirements

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

• Extensive broad-based banking experience in financial services with preference for those who have focused on credit, rates, FX or cash management markets
• Proven track record of leadership capacities, preferably within a strats / quant function
• Experience in model development and lifecycle
• Thought leadership and innovative problem solving
• Highly numerate with strong background mathematic disciplines e.g. computer science, statistics, physics, engineering, etc.
• Deep knowledge of software development and experience in a range of coding languages e.g. Python, C++
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience of preparing and communicating key messages and recommendations to senior management and other stakeholders
• Strong influencing, interpersonal, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• 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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