Traded Risk Re-Engineering Sme

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Our Risk and Compliance function has a critical role to play in supporting, challenging and advising across all areas of the business through establishing policy, monitoring profiles, and identifying and managing forward-looking risk and compliance. We focus on creating an environment that encourages our people to speak up and do the right thing, as well as protecting our customers, the organisation and the integrity of the financial markets in which we operate. Already an industry-leader in many respects, we want to continue setting standards and evolving to respond to strategic changes.

The Traded Risk re-engineering SME will be working within Risk and Compliance Transformation in the Traded Risk workstream. The successful candidate will be part of a team that aims to develop a Traded Risk function with systems and capabilities to manage an evolving and complex traded and market risk environment. This role will play a pivotal part in reviewing current reporting processes and defining these in line with FRTB live requirements.

As an 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.

We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Traded Risk Re-Engineering SME. 

In this role, you will:

•     Be responsible for analysing and measuring the effectiveness of existing business processes and developing sustainable and quantifiable improvements. 
•    This will include researching and benchmarking to best business practices, collating and analysing process data, providing support to the business/making recommendations, stakeholder management and delivering simplified processes that increase productivity and help define the business processes for Traded Risk as we transition to FRTB.
•    Design, implement and deliver business performance, improvement projects. 
•    Manage the preparation of update reports, quality procedures, audits, status reports and project plans.
•    Manage initiatives to improve processing efficiencies which may involve managing re-engineering initiatives, workflow management and automation enhancement.

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

•     A business analyst with extensive experience in Risk.
•    Experience in working in or with the CAO office.
•    Demonstrate thorough organisational skills and ability to prioritise certain activities in order to ensure work is efficient.
•    Previous stakeholder management experience particularly around process improvements/optimisation.

The base location for this role is Edinburgh / Hybrid.

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