Senior Business Analyst GHCS

Senior Business Analyst GHCS

Why join us?
 
UK HUB and Core Banking Support is an equal opportunity provider committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and where opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working, and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons with required experience, irrespective of known differences. We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

The Opportunity:

To execute operational activities and support of all RPS Products and Parameters team (P&P) or as allocated to ensure robust operational efficiency and effectiveness at UK HUB and Core Banking Support and to deliver excellent Customer Service to all business partners across the group.

UK HUB and Core Banking - RPS Products and Parameters team (P&P) is primarily responsible for the end-to-end process of building and modifying products, its parameters and application parameters on the RPS platform. P&P works closely with multiple LoBs and product owners to establish exact requirements, and thereafter progress by performing detailed analysis and providing consultancy on features and attributes such as charges, interest, commission etc. P&P also coordinate with many offshore teams, including technical support teams to deliver the final objective of the business. Deliver an efficient, high-quality service within Service Level Agreements. Also ensure that areas of operational risks are identified, monitored, and escalated effectively to enable business continuity.

To deliver an efficient, high-quality service within Service Level Agreements and ensure that areas of operational risks are identified, monitored, and escalated effectively to enable business continuity.

What you’ll do:

Impact on the Business/Function 

Ensure compliance with HSBC Group company policies and procedures, including regulatory requirements. The term ‘compliance’ embraces all relevant laws, rules, and codes with which the business must comply within Sri Lanka and in relation to the countries migrating work with the GSC.

Ensure that all Core banking systems /platform functions are performed in line with BIM Vol 2 – Administration, Control and Retail Banking Operations and MI is released in accordance with the group standards on information security procedures and policies.

Act as custodian for all core banking systems / platform standing data table maintenances, recording usage, and issuing new codes when requested and be responsible for approving key attributes in consultation with relevant Regional / Global teams.
Investigate and respond to functionality problems, manage set up of parameters in Core banking systems /platforms, maintain standing data (SD) tables to ensure expected results to support business requirements.

Proactively update and enhance knowledge in all Core banking systems /platforms for the team and users by effective contribution via different forums and HUBnet.

Demonstrate a high degree of analytical skills to ensure business problems are questioned, understood and the solutions proposed/suggested are cost effective and timely.

Customers / Stakeholders

• To provide excellent customer service by ensuring the responses are accurate, meaningful and contain relevant and constructive information; assisting in establishing robust processes and that these processes operate efficiently and effectively, while maintaining the agreed SLA/PLA.
• To assume responsibility for the relevant process/function and operational integrity of the team by ensuring that all operations are handled in accordance with procedures and that the Management Team fully understands the operational and financial risks associated with the service provided.
• Proactively follow up to understand record and distribute (via communication tools) knowledge on local level differences (local PPCR’s/amendments etc.) issues.
•  Ensure customer satisfaction levels are met and recommend action plans to improve satisfaction levels.
• Ensure effective and appropriate updating of MI, which fully and accurately represents achievement of key business deliverables.
• Provide assistance in analyzing the viability of new requests and provide options and sustainable solutions to the business that meets business requirements, which is align with Information technology strategy and maximize reuse opportunities.
• Subject matter expertise to business partners on system related improvement ideas and income generating or cost saving opportunities that could be explored to increase business profitability which is in line with the business objectives.
• Promoting potential project initiatives to business partners/stakeholders to create greater opportunities.
  Work closely with business users to develop test scripts / plans, ensure quality testing is conducted, successful integration and deployment takes place.
• Preparation of training materials such as presentations, walkthrough & other forms of information databases to conduct training programs for business users across the group.
• Conducting monthly governance meeting with each country RM & ensuring business expectations are achieved.

Leadership & Teamwork

• By proactively seeking opportunities to improve knowledge in all Core banking systems /platforms, and skills both of self and of the team. This will be done by keeping abreast of changes to systems and reading updates on HUBnet. 
• By delivering high standard of Customer service and continuously raising the benchmarks for service.
• Motivate the team to gain multi skills across different functions and support actively by identifying opportunities and leading initiatives to develop a multi skill team.
• Complete progress updates on performance and development plans within agreed timescales and actively seeks feedback from management.
• Proactively seek regular and effective communication of Group initiatives, policies, and other activities to the teams to stay abreast of the changes in the Group.
• Using of industry level standards, techniques to develop projects and for effective management of the projects such as time, cost & human resource.

Operational Effectiveness & Control

• Maintain agreed levels for productivity, quality and learning curve with business units.
• Ensure that issues/problems are fully analyzed and resolved within reasonable time scales.  Appropriate action is taken to prevent recurrence where necessary. Major issues identified and recorded / reported appropriately.
• By effective communication with superiors and peers, ensure that optimum use of resource is made across GHCS and contribute to achieve an effective cross functional -training plan.
• Value addition to the business by providing business driven consultancy, giving information about potential technology solutions, costs, and time scales to enable the business management team to make informed choices about their investments in IT solution.
• Preparing documents of functional specifications which are implemented on production and documenting same for future reference.
• Conducting feasibility studies and producing feasibility reports giving recommendations on scope of system enhancements.
  Developing test cases and evaluating its results and finally working with the business on UAT to implement the changes in production environment.
• Ensuring exception/audit reports are checked daily and duly informed to the stakeholders.

Contribute to review initial project documents.

• Information elicitation and requirement gathering from all project’s relevant stakeholders, SMEs, and development teams.
• Translate business requirements into system requirements using the appropriate terminology to facilitate the progression of a project through elaboration and definition.
• Articulate and identify nonfunctional requirements.
• Evaluation of impact and risks to business processes, banks systems and regulatory compliance.
• Analyzing and confirming clear choices, user requirements to provide HUB related inputs, thus ensuring a meaningful document is created for the project team to progress.

What you will need to succeed in the role: 

• Experience in project management, including planning and business focused consultancy.
• More than 3 years of experience in using HUB system with excellent HUB knowledge.
• Ability to understand and follow Group risk management policies.
• Ability to self-direct and be resilient in an ever-changing environment.
• To have excellent internal/external customer service.
• Proven team player with the ability to collaborate effectively with other teams in different geographical locations.
• Should be self-motivated and self-driven to learn new systems and processers within a short period of time.
• Having HUB backend knowledge with excellent stakeholder management skills would be an added advantage.