Business Analyst/Consultant Specialist

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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 Consultant Specialist.

We are part of Wholesale Technology and Wholesale Credit Lending ( WCL ) is the unit within banking that works across Product, Regional, Country and Sector teams on all wholesale (CMD and GB) lending related activities to generate optimal returns and to manage and minimize risk. Credit Lending drives Banking to support portfolio management activities through proactive management of balance sheet utilization and concentration risk.
The role has been published as part of Corporate and Financial Institution Lending sub-value stream within WCL and this IT team provides the required IT platform for Relationship managers and Risk Approvers to enter, review and approve a credit application.
As a Business Analyst, you would be expected to drive the Corporate and Financial Institution Lending Business scope, definition and help designing the solutions to meet FSA.

In this role, you will:
Build and sustain trusting relationships with internal customers by consistently delivering value added consultancy services with accurate, timely and insightful information.
Plan and ensure all stakeholders are well informed and ready to support the implementation of project to maximize the business benefits. Support smooth transition from current statue to future state.
Often acts as an expert across multiple projects or programmes simultaneously, 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.
Defines, shapes and recommends creative solutions options, weighing risk/reward
Coordinates requirements gathering, documentation, prioritisation and traceability working with multiple programme teams and senior stakeholders. Works with the team to break down requirements into rigorous level detail and translates business requirements for use by delivery partners.
Challenges requirements and designs detailed, innovative business solutions to realise agreed business requirements
Supports the business and functions in assessing current state operating model and translating strategy into target operating models, considering the impacts on customers, products/services, organisation, people, process, technology and other key factors. Supports the impact assessment of new change on operating model Manages re-engineering of processes, where process is one of the many parts of the change, and provides detailed guidance on process design (considering risk, end-to-end and cost)
Acts as the subject matter expert to provide consultancy services and project management on design, development and delivery of change initiatives with an open and innovative mind
Manage the changes through change control process and challenge where there is scope change, budget overrun and potential slippage.
Identify risks/issues, their dependencies, assess the impacts on the programme delivery schedule and benefit realisation. Take ownership of critical issues and ensure resolution within agreed timescales with minimum impacts.
Support the culture of achievements by identifying and removing barriers to project success.
Promote and prioritise project decisions and actions by focusing on customer s needs, and encourage the team to do the same.
Identify negative impacts of project initiatives to business, functional units and end-customers, and provide mitigating actions.