Senior Business Analyst at HSBC, Edinburgh, 6 Months, £650 per day

Business Analyst

Rate: £651.13 per day (via umbrella)

Duration: 6 months

Location: Edinburgh – Hybrid working model (3 days on-site)

Provide business analysis expertise delivering a robust, scalable transaction management solution supporting a global operating model. The role gathers and translates business requirements, documents current and target-state processes, influences solution design, and supports delivery through working closely with business and technology.

Key Stakeholders

• Product owners
• Operations teams
• Project Managers
• Clients

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities

Business Analysis

• Capture, analyse and document end-to-end business processes (including IT processes).
• Participating in change management activities which can include tasks such as timeline planning, tracking progress and stakeholder engagement.
• Translate and clarify business requirements; define design options and provide detailed functional requirements.
• Provide detailed background on existing processes and actively influence the proposed solution design.

Testing

• Prepare business test scripts, scenarios and test cases aligned to signed-off requirements.
• Execute tests to ensure quality assurance of solutions delivered.
• Coordinate, manage and support execution of UAT with end-users and clients.

Training, Change & Implementation

• Prepare training materials for new procedures and technology applications.
• Deliver end-user training and support adoption.

Risk & Controls

• Continually assess operational risks associated with the role and delivery activities.
• Maintain compliance with HSBC internal control standards and relevant policies and procedures.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience in a financial services environment.
• Detailed knowledge of trade confirmation and settlement processes.
• Experience in transaction processing of multiple instrument types, including Securities, FX, money market instruments, exchange traded derivatives and OTC derivatives (at least trade capture exposure).
• Hands-on experience with Markit EDM (or a trade orchestration platform)
• Strong business analysis capability.
• Hands-on testing experience: test scripting, execution, UAT support, and user training.
• Experience working in a large, ideally global, project delivery team.
• Experience supporting business process transformation and operating model change.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.