Lead Risk Analyst’ London, England
Job description
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This is an exciting time to join the HSBC UK Credit Risk Management team. We have a wide range of exciting growth initiatives planned for 2023 and now is a great time to get involved. This opportunity will provide you with a vast range of exciting projects to shape and drive. Whether that’s delivering insightful analysis, using advanced analytics to design strategies, or innovating to maximise our use of data and decision system capabilities, this role will allow you to make a positive impact on the business and our customers
As a Lead Risk Analyst, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining models used to assess and manage risk, specifically to provide support in the credit risk stress testing and regulatory reporting. You’ll be required to analyse large amounts of data, draw conclusions and drive actions.
This role is within UK Wealth & Personal Banking Risk Analytics, part of Global Risk, a thriving and expert risk management function supporting HSBC globally with all of risk management. The team actively handles a varied and dynamic range of risk types, including security, fraud, information security, contingency, geopolitical, operational, credit, pension, insurance, financial crime and regulatory compliance, market and reputation risks. All parts of the Global Risk team use their skills, insight and integrity to handle established threats and those they see emerging, acting to protect and enable HSBC to deliver sustainable growth.
As a HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
If you join us, you will spend your time:
- Delivering complex analytics projects within a team, ensuring results are timely and accurate, supporting junior team members and offshore analysts as required.
- Drawing, formulating & communicating conclusions from your own work, recommending further actions where required
- Prioritising planned projects and tasks, whilst effectively managing and challenging requests for unplanned or ad-hoc work
- Taking a lead in briefings for team members/ stakeholders on progress of work, sharing knowledge, successes, and opportunities
- Identifying solutions to emerging risk issues, changing priorities, project completion issues and areas of conflict
- Challenging established policy and procedures where appropriate, and suggesting alternatives, whilst maintaining compliance with regulatory and documentation requirements
To be successful in this job, we need you to have or do most of these things:
- Previous experience in a relevant role, e.g. Credit Risk Analytics or an Analysis based role, with experience of secured or unsecured products;
- Excellent attention to detail and a track record of analytical capabilities using relevant software packages (i.e. SAS/SQL/VBA/Python) to analyse large amounts of data, draw conclusions and drive actions;
- An understanding of consumer lending products, profitability and credit risk.
- Experience of successful project management, working across a range of teams to deliver.
- You are motivated by making a positive contribution to how we support our customers and deliver for HSBC;
The role can be based in Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham or Chester, and you will be expected to work from the office three days per week.
At HSBC, we look to enable our employees to better balance their work / life priorities and have the flexibility required to meet challenging needs as they progress through different life stages. Where possible we will consider the following flexible working options: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, and working from home and staggered hours. If in considering a role with HSBC you have a need for some flexibility in your working arrangements, please discuss this with the recruitment team in the early stages of the application process.
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
