IRR Liquidity Business Analyst

Liquidity Business Analyst

£703.22 per day (Umbrella)

London (3 days on site / 2 days WFH)

6 months with the possibility of extensions

Overview

Global Finance has launched a multi-year Integrity of Regulatory Reporting (IRR) programme to enhance the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of regulatory reporting across the Group. This initiative aims to standardise controls and processes across the end-to-end reporting lifecycle, ensuring alignment with strategic transformation programmes.

As a Liquidity Business Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting change design and delivery within Finance. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across Finance, IT, Risk, and the business to gather and analyse requirements, support testing, and contribute to the successful implementation of liquidity-related solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Apply approaches, tools and techniques for gathering, clarifying and managing business requirements, including data analysis on large datasets
• Support colleagues to define, develop and translate requirements at specific stages of the project lifecycle, developing an understanding of different types of requirements and how these translate into test cases
• Based on the data and requirements analysis & understanding, define the design options that will comply with Finance design principles, contributing to building functionality into Finance target architecture
• Execute functional and business testing of requirements – and support the users through the User Acceptance Testing phases
• Support data traceability projects
• Support Data quality remediation activities including upstream root cause analysis
• Support implementation phases (e.g. dress rehearsals / parallel runs)
• Day to day running of requirement management systems, change control and document standards.
• Work in alignment with the HSBC Change Framework.
• Stakeholder management
• Invest in training more junior members of the team

Key Skills:

• Experience working in Finance-related projects essential
• Proficient in interrogating databases via SQL queries, VBA skills
• Excellent requirements analysis, functional design & data analysis skills
• Experience in Liquidity related projects is essential
• Experience of building relationships with a variety of stakeholders including technology/ technical
• Experience of supporting the development of business-facing material
• Excellent influencing, negotiating and interpersonal skills to all levels
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Creative approach to problem solving and outcome-focused approach
• Ability to work effectively under pressure with competing and rapidly changing priorities
• The ability to work with diverse and geographically dispersed business teams
• A highly motivated and pro-active self-starter with a positive attitude
• Flexible worker who demonstrates adaptability
• Keeping calm under pressure is a must
• Ability to communicate at all levels and across countries/regions/cultures is essential
• Ability and willingness to get involved in analysis activities and documentation
• Good understanding of encumbrance logic and source uses
• Exposure to Custodian statements to enable gathering custodian reconciliation data requirements

Please note, in the event of a high volume of applications for this role, we will not be able to respond to each individual applicant. Unfortunately, if you have not been contacted within 7 days we will not be progressing with your application. Thank you for your understanding.