Senior BA - Loan IQ
Big Bank Funding. FinTech Thinking.
HSBC is one of the world’s largest financial services organisations. Security is critical to every aspect of our business and the technology at the bank is changing daily. Security Architecture is dedicated to helping the business deliver at pace, securely. We drive the strategic direction of the bank’s security services and solutions, to reduce risk and deliver the business goals. We are an industry-leading team of expert Enterprise and Solution Security Architects with a strong culture of creativity, collaboration and continuous learning.
Our technology teams in the UK work closely with HSBC’s global businesses to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world, to bank quickly, simply and securely. We also run and manage our IT infrastructure, data centres and core banking systems that power the world’s leading international bank.
Our multi-disciplined teams include: DevOps engineers, IT architects, front and back-end developers, infrastructure specialists, cyber experts, as well as project and programme managers.
Brief overview of the business areas
Wholesale Technology supports HSBC’s business capabilities in trade and receivables financing, liquidity and cash management, capital financing and investment banking, payments, and credit and lending for corporate and institutional clients covering over 50 key global locations. Working in Wholesale Technology means that you get to work with talented individuals from across the globe and your opportunities are limitless.
We continually strive to provide a faster, better service, to look across and beyond our teams to collaborate, innovate and learn from each other, and we’re not afraid to challenge or learn from our mistakes. Our values and culture underpin who we are and what we do. They form an integral part of our selection and assessment of new joiners, and are also a key driver in the recognition, remuneration and training for all our employees.
The Senior Business Analyst for Wholesale Credit & Lending IT role is focused on the LoanIQ service, which manages complex and bilateral lending activity of Global Banking and Commercial Banking, providing a specialized application for the booking and administration of complex / high-end loans, such as high value structured loan transactions including syndicated loans.
This covers servicing of complex loans for HSBC in the capacity as a lender (HSBC participation and bilateral lending) and as a syndicated facility agent. Loan IQ is implemented within HSBC in UK / HK / France / Germany / US / Canada / Australia to support syndicated agency, participation, and bilateral lending, plus is used in UK / HK / US for secondary loan trading.
What you will be doing.
- As our Senior Business Analyst, you will provide LoanIQ product / subject matter expert knowledge for projects, enhancements, and support activities.
- Establishing strong and long-lasting client relationships with operations, accounting, risk and other business partners in order to better ascertain, analyse and gather their needs.
- The principal responsibility is to lead and execute analysis activity for one or more programmes, managing the capture, analysis and documentation of business & IT processes.
- To be successful in this role, you will have excellent operational knowledge of the Loan IQ platform along with knowledge of the complex lending businesses.
- You will be able to elicit business requirements from business users (including accounting, operations, risk, treasury) and subject matter experts, along with the ability to gather, model and document clear business and functional requirements / specifications.
- You will have the ability to present and discuss with the business and IT users any impact resulting from the project, manage scope and requirements throughout the project lifecycle, provide overview and training for end-users.
- Finally, be able to prepare functional specifications and work with development on implementing required enhancement/changes, along with the creation of test plans and test scripts.