Role: IT Business Analyst Overview: Highlights of department: (Please give an overview of the business area and describe current and future project/areas that the candidate will be working). The MSS Operations Technology (MSSOT) FX Metals & Treasury is a sub-department within Markets & Security Services that touches upon every part of a Trade Life-cycle mainly focused on post trade and middle office activities. The MSSOT asset class is responsible for applications that allow the business lines to undertake activities such as Reconciliations, Cash & Liquidity Management, Confirmations and Matching, Settlement and Payment, Exception Management, MI Reporting and other critical Post-Trade functions. MSSOT is globally distributed with IT Teams in India, China, UK, US, Canada and Mexico. A range of various technologies are deployed across the asset class with applications being a mix of Home Grown and Vendor software. The Team you’d specifically be joining within MSSOT FX Metals & Treasury is responsible for Cash & Liquidity Management (CaLM) with Cash Management Operations & Markets Treasury as primary users & stakeholders. HSBC Cash Management Operations use Smartstream’s Real Time Cash Management (RTCM/CMS Ver. 2.9) to pro-actively manage cash and intraday liquidity cash positions of the Bank. The objective is to optimize cash resources effectively, reduce funding cost and minimise intraday liquidity risk. A single instance of this application is deployed globally using a home-grown middleware DML application to fetch and process cashflows from various sources with Oracle 19c as the underlying database. CMS provisions for both intra-day and end-of-day funding projections for all the deployed entities in real-time. Since past 2 years the CaLM Business & IT are assessing the intra-day and end-of-day liquidity management capabilities with a view to enhancing the same and defining a target state with a view to achieving a more comprehensive and robust capability while ensuring regulatory compliance. Purpose of the job: The Business Analyst role would be a key role in terms of working closely with the Global Cash Management Operations stakeholders to drive Cashflow Remediation program that includes new feed automations, site rollouts, & amendments to existing business processes. This would involve coordination with various Business & Operations stakeholders in Cash Management & Markets Treasury, IT Management, and PODs to deliver transformation & maintenance projects. The role requires highly skilled business analyst with hands on experience working in a similar role & an in-depth understanding of Cash & Liquidity Management business processes & operations. Having been part of at least one successful deployment of Smartstream Real Time Cash Management solution ver 2.9 or higher would be an added advantage. Responsible for: (Please describe the role that the Candidate will be undertaking within the team) The candidate will be responsible for the following: Analysing and documenting requirements. Converting business requirements into technical specifications Analysing the enterprise specifics & current technology environment. Setting the collaboration framework to work with new connections/environments Controlling solution development Supporting project management through DevOps/Agile practices Responsible for the whole lifecycle including Development, Integration with Upstream/Downstream, Testing and Deployment Review/sign-off test cases, peer review test cases/artefacts, test execution Define low level Business cases Demonstrate and secure approval on BRD from project stakeholders Support to the development team Ability to work collaboratively with a global team Essential skills needed: Experience of post trade payment & settlement business processes, & liquidity management Extensive knowledge of the relevant Swift messaging technology (both MT & MX formats) involved in payments & settlement processes, and the corresponding internal and swift gateway systems Understand source data from both internal & external (Swift) sources & perform data mapping exercise for building the relevant interfaces Good understand the underlying technologies & software architecture involved & explain the data flow to fellow team members in the POD as part of overall solution development Past experience having handled real time message processing Having experience with successful deployment of Smartstream Real Time Cash Management solution v2.5 or higher would be an added advantage Other essential skills: Should be familiar with the Investment Banking concepts Excellent communication and presentation skills
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