Senior Data Analyst

HSBC Global Services Limited
London
1 month ago
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Some careers shine brighter than others. 

 

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. 

 

Wholesale Data & Analytics is creating a world class “data-driven” organization that leads our competitors and inspires our employees. We are building a revolutionary data analytics ecosystem to generate business insights and provide great customer experience from well-managed and trusted data assets.

 

Our global team is partnering with IT to deliver an ecosystem of curated, enriched, and protected sets of data – created from global, raw, structured, and unstructured sources. Our Wholesale Big Data Lake is the largest aggregation of data ever within HSBC. We have over 300 sources and a rapidly growing book of work. We are utilising the latest technologies to solve business problems and deliver value and truly unique insights.

 

We are looking for Data Analysts that proactively drive a number of business outcomes through the use our extensive global Wholesale data estate, leveraging an array of innovative technologies and practices to deliver a best-in-class set of data solutions.

This will involve a number of disciplines; data asset development, business engagement, root cause analysis of complex commercial challenges, data modelling, requirements management, solution testing and technical deployments.

 

In this role you will:

 

  • Engage with stakeholders of various levels across business lines to understand business requirements, identify solutions and contribute to decision making
  • Lead on the definition and development of logical data assets to support Wholesale business use-cases, largely related to the lending journey
  • Generate insights and analytics to support business activities, financial projects, product planning, sales activities, performance measurement, regulatory requests and decision making
  • Work closely with the CDO communities across Wholesale, Risk, Finance and FCR to ensure the unified data model is fit for purpose for the business data demands
  • Form a crucial part of a dynamic, global delivery team including colleagues across multiple functions and geographies with the unified aim of creating innovative and strategic data solutions
  • Inform and implement measured data governance structures and practices to ensure that our products and deliveries are robust and compliant
  • Co-ordinate across multiple delivery teams, ensuring that all activities are timely and contribute to strategic business outcomes
  • Guide and develop colleagues to drive performance standards and best practices

 

To be successful in this role you should have:

 

  • Strong hands-on data and analytics background, with experience in coding languages such as SAS, Python, and SQL essentially
  • An ability to extract, analyse and manage large data sets within big data environments
  • Experience interpreting and creating artefacts such as Data Dictionary, Data Architecture and Data flow diagrams
  • An ability to work independently with limited oversight of day-to-day activities
  • A high degree of attention to detail and problem-solving abilities
  • Experience in planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
  • Leadership of focused delivery teams across multiple functions adhering to Agile disciplines
  • Experience working within a frontline Wholesale business function (CMB/GBM) desirable but not essential
  • Experience working with platforms such as Hadoop or Google Cloud desirable but not essential

 

This is a hybrid role based in Birmingham or London.

 

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our recruitment processes are accessible to everyone - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.

 

We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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