Core Quant Associate Director - Corporate and Institutional Banking

HSBC

  • Central, Hong Kong
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 22 hours ago
Job descriptionSome careers have more impact than others.If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be. 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.Our COO team delivers strategic execution for Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) across the globe. Through transformative data and digital solutions, customer servicing, and non-financial risk expertise, this team is where problems are solved, and careers are made.CIB COO focuses on these key priorities:
  • Protecting the bank, our customers and stakeholders by enhancing our operational resilience, strengthen our control environment, and improve risk management.
  • Driving operational excellence and efficiency by optimising our processes and delivering the transition to net zero in our own operations.
  • Enabling business growth exceptional service by enabling our businesses to focus on our competitive advantage and deliver transformation and digitisation across the bank.
We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Core Quant Associate Director .Principal ResponsibilitiesCredit and Capital Management (CCM) is on an exciting journey and embarking on a multi-year transformation project. The Core Quant Associate Director will partner with Product specialists across the regions to ensure models are optimised to serve the Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) franchise and structural market conditions in each region, driving the build of an industry leading credit platform within the Felis Wholesale Analytics Platform. This will include working in cross-functional teams to implement changes to the technology stack and helping to deliver a global program to build and utilise a set of tools that leverage capital models to optimise our business strategy and understand the risk profile at a deeper levelIn this role you will
  • Support the design and build of a state-of-the-art code library and development environment
  • Utilise statistical profiling of disperse datasets representing inputs into the return on equity of the business to identify opportunities to optimise one or more aspects of profitability metrics with a focus on product pricing
  • Provide commercially driven thought leadership into the design and calibration of the relevant credit framework
  • Partner with client facing teams in the design of capital & resource efficient products ensuring the tooling is available to monitor the performance of those products
  • Support efforts to drive culture change across the organisation to embed quantitative tooling in to increasingly automated processes in asset classes that are becoming technology driven in the marketplace
RequirementsTo be successful you will need
  • Extensive experience in financial services with a background in credit, rates or cash management markets
  • Highly numerate with hands on knowledge of coding languages e.g. Python, C++; and strong experience with software development
  • Strong commercial acumen and execution capabilities, with experience in a Strats / quant / analytics / data function
  • Experience with financial data and data analytics
  • Motivated quick thinker with innovative problem-solving skills
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, with experience of preparing and presenting recommendations to senior management and other stakeholders
  • Result oriented and team player who can foster strong and collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders
Opening up a world of opportunityHSBC is 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. Personal data held by the Bank relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.Issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.

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