Job description
The Client Pricing and Analytics team is the centralised desk within Securities Financing responsible for client pricing and the analysis of our clients’ profitability and financial resource consumption. By harnessing the power of our data and implementing a consistent pricing and analytics methodology across products and regions, we aim to provide valuable, data-driven analysis of clients in the context of the wider platform. This allows us to optimise existing business relationships, identify new revenue opportunities and increase profitability, by ensuring pricing levels are set appropriately and financial resources are deployed efficiently.
- Developing and calibrating models to calculate client profitability and financial resource consumption
- Pricing of client portfolios across cash and synthetic prime brokerage globally and on-going pricing review to re-validate initial commercial assumptions
- Producing detailed portfolio analytics to facilitate discussions with internal stakeholders and clients
- Systematically identifying trends and key drivers of client profitability and financial resource consumption
- Work on large scale of data and build tools that will allow the business to generate new insights from existing data to aid with risk management and portfolio optimisation
- Scenario analysis to analyse the impact of a client within the context of the wider portfolio and how profitability would be impacted in response to changing parameters
- Explore the application of machine learning techniques to enhance the modelling and understanding of client behaviour in different market conditions and the associated liquidity / internalisation risk
- Working with sales and trading to implement axe lists and identifying opportunities to help increase internalisation and asset efficiency
- Drive the data analytics journey by bringing together data from various sources across the platform, cleansing and understanding the data definition and usage, and visualisation of the analytics to enhance business analysis and insights
- University degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics or equivalent
- 2 or more year’s experience in a quantitative role and extensive data analysis skills
- Working knowledge of financial products relevant to Securities Financing e.g. margin loans, repo, stock lending, IR/FX swaps, total return swaps, single-stock /index futures etc.
- Experience working in Prime Brokerage / Securities Financing is a plus
- Strong programming skills in Python (or other programming languages) and SQL
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Critical thinking, attention to detail and problem solving skills
- Comfortable working on multiple projects and taking ownership to deliver commercial impact
HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme, and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please contact our Recruitment Helpdesk:
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Telephone: +44 2078328500.
Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism. This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.