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Retail Banking and Wealth Management serves more than 50 million customers worldwide with a complete range of banking and wealth management services to enable them to manage their finances and protect and build their financial futures. It is a global business that brings together management responsibility for Retail Banking, Wealth Management, Insurance and Asset Management with a focus on customer-centric propositions and innovative and efficient distribution channels.

We are currently seeking an ambitious individual to join our team as a Research Specialist Hedge Funds, working together with colleagues to define, manage and achieve divisional business targets.

Role Purpose
Research specialist is part of the team performing investment due diligence for current and proposed holdings in third party managed alternative investment funds. The role involves working with the investment due diligence teams who are responsible for the relationship the group has with 100-120 third party managers,working on fundamental bottom-up research. The focus will be predominantly on European hedge funds across different strategies. Input to the top-down strategy process and other tasks to ensure the smooth running of the team function will also be required.

In this role, you will:

• Provide full investment coverage of the current and prospective hedge fund investments.
• Support the client facing teams in Asset Management Group (AMG) and Global Private Banking (GPB) with timely information with regards to the hedge fund investments.
• Construct meaningful top-down strategy analysis with which to manage and advise on assets across the group.
• Work closely with other members of the global investment due diligence team, operational due diligence team and the portfolio management team.
• Spot opportunities for business development as well as sources of risk.
• Be pro-active, Ethical, Profit yet Risk oriented.
• Organising the monitoring of the hedge fund investments. Ensuring that all systems are fully up to date with all required information with regards to those investments and that information is escalated in a timely manner where appropriate.
• Writing of comprehensive investment due diligence reports in a timely manner.
  

Requirements

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

• Undergraduate Bachelor’s degree in numerate discipline. A master’s degree would be desirable but not essential.
• Extensive investment experience in asset management, investment banking or related discipline.
• Previous relevant experience researching hedge funds is essential.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Works well in team environment.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office products.
• Self-starter, able to demonstrate initiative, well-developed time management skills.

This is a hybrid working role with the base location as London. The successful candidate will have to have the ability to commute to this location.

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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 apply for our roles, please contact our Recruitment Helpdesk:
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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.