Description:
If you’re looking for a career that will unlock new opportunities, join HSBC and experience the possibilities. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.
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.
HSBC Global Treasury is the global clearing house for HSBC’s financial resources. We proactively integrate, manage and steer our financial resources for today and for the future, whilst ensuring our prudential safety. Finance resources are defined as the cash, liquidity, funding and capital (including as measured by RWAs, leverage and large exposures) of entities within the Group and the interest rate and FX risks that results from the banking book activity. We partner with Businesses and entities to provide sustainable optimised commercial outcomes to deliver the Group’s strategy. We manage the residual portfolios and risks with a mind-set of portfolio optimisation. Our team lead a dynamic and inclusive culture fostering diversity of thought and where the best wants to work.
We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of IRRBB Analyst.
In this role, you will:
- Work with various stakeholders across different functions and seniority to understand customer behaviours and pricing strategies under various interest rate environments
- Support modelling and analysis in response to and in anticipation of changing interest rates to support strategy and forecasting, including risk appetite calibration and stress testing
- Support identification of impact to earnings and capital and definition of risk management strategies
- Support the development and implementation of a robust IRRBB management framework, including non-financial risk
- Support IRRBB remediation, transformation, capability enhancement, sharing and adoption of best practice
- Support the Global Treasury ExCo for the delivery of overall business objectives. These include measures around strategic targets (Revenues, Costs, NII and NIM) as well as non-financial measures / obligations around Capital Management, strategic priorities and Risk and Compliance related topics (e.g. Conduct, operational risk).
There are 3 main IRRBB skill disciplines we are looking for. The successful candidate should focus on at least 1 of the following areas:
- Controls: working with IRRBB, Finance Operations (FO) and Finance Change Delivery (FCD) to ensure we design and implement a robust control process, including a process to ensure compliance (or track exemptions) within the methodology / framework.
- Methodology: framework design, including the standardisation of our approach to measuring deposit stability, pricing betas, flooring and defining the scope of Global IRRBB measures.
- Model Design: Designing models and processes that align to the IRRBB methodology and framework. Such as pricing beta models, cashflow models and asset prepayments
Requirements
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:
- Relevant qualification and experience of in Banking/Financial Services in a Treasury business environment or a related function such as Risk, Strategic Planning & Stress Testing, Finance Change Delivery or Finance Operations.
- Strong financial analytical and modelling skills
- Subject matter understanding of IRRBB topics is a strong preference but not essential, together with good experience and understanding of broad Treasury activities and banking book products.
- Demonstrating a commercial mindset; deep understanding of the business and what needs to be done to be profitable and deliver the right outcomes for our customers.
- Critical thinker and problem solver; is able to break down complex issues to identify root causes and applying judgement and interpretation to help understand problems and generate effective solutions.
- Collaboration is critical, maintaining strong relationships internally and externally.