Associate Director, Business Analysis

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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Business Analysis.

Business:IWPB Technology

Principal responsibilities

• Own solution design for Credit platform capabilities across application, decisioning, simulation, and reporting.
• Lead the Business Analysis practice within the Credit platform, embedding consistent standards, templates, and ways of working.
• Partner with business and IT stakeholders across multiple countries to translate goals, priorities, and requirements into clear, actionable deliverables.
• Act as the bridge between business, risk, operations, and engineering teams.
• Represent Credit Technology in project working groups and governance forums, driving alignment, decisions, and timely delivery.
• Create epics, user stories, business requirements, and functional specifications with clear acceptance criteria.
• Produce functional designs for stories planned for development, including process flows, data mappings, business rules, and exception handling.
• Support the Product Owner with backlog refinement, prioritisation, dependency management, and release planning.
• Lead technical design reviews, architecture alignment, and delivery planning.
• Drive integration with upstream and downstream systems, including trading, risk, finance, and data platforms.
• Ensure quality through clear acceptance criteria, test strategy, QA support, and release governance.
• Manage delivery risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communication.
• Support regulatory, audit, and control requirements in solution design and rollout.

Requirements

• Strong experience in credit domain platforms within banking or financial services.
• Proven track record as a Tech Lead, BA Lead, or in a hybrid role within complex transformation programs.
• 10+ years’ experience delivering IT change in Agile and/or hybrid delivery models.
• Experience delivering projects in Wealth Management and/or Private Banking.
• Strong domain knowledge across Credit, Wealth Financing, and Investments.
• Hands-on understanding of enterprise architecture, APIs, event-driven integration, and data workflows.
• Strong skills in requirements engineering, process modeling, stakeholder management, and impact assessment.
• Experience delivering across the SDLC lifecycle in agile and controlled enterprise environments.
• Fluent English communication skills, written and spoken.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Proficient with delivery and documentation tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Data analysis capability, including SQL, defining data requirements, and supporting data quality and reconciliation.
• Ability to define and validate non-functional requirements, including performance, resilience, availability, observability, and scalability.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and 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 irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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