Assistant Director, Innovation

Assistant Director, Innovation at HSBC

If you're looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you'll be. HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 62 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Assistant Director, Innovation.

In This Role, You Will

• Strong understanding of business domain, functional goals, and the required technical expertise across multiple regions.
• Make decisions, even with ambiguous/incomplete data, at a pace that balances the need for further analysis and timely decisions given business priorities/requirements.
• Translate key analytical solutions as generic and re-deployable across regions/markets, driving their redeployment.
• Provide actionable analytical solutions for unstructured business problems, communicating across all levels and with senior executives.
• Work closely with each business area to deliver specific solutions for business bottom-line improvements.
• Lead analytical projects and/or statistical models to include project design, data collection, database design, analysis, and presentation of results.
• Act as an SME/consultant, conceptualizing analytical solutions for business problems for multiple businesses/regions.
• Implement advanced data management and governance practices.
• Independently deliver without handholding, ensuring effective project management and closure with documented evidence.
• Complete other related duties as assigned and support the Company’s Diversity programs.
• Ensure adherence with all applicable compliance policies (Data security policy, AML, operational risk, Functional manual, Group Compliance Manual, Audit recommendations, Internal Control requirements, regulatory guidelines etc.) and business standards.
• Take timely action on Audit comments and demonstrate compliance with Internal controls.

To Be Successful, You Will

• Possess deep expertise in designing and implementing end-to-end analytical solutions that drive significant business impact across diverse operational domains (Fraud, Collections, Underwriting, Credit Bureau).
• Demonstrate the ability to identify and champion strategic analytical initiatives that align with broader business objectives and deliver measurable ROI.
• Have an advanced understanding of market dynamics, competitive landscapes, and regulatory changes within the financial services sector to proactively guide analytical efforts.
• Bring experience in managing and optimizing the full lifecycle of analytical models, from conceptualization and development to deployment, monitoring, and recalibration in a production environment.
• Exhibit strong programming skills in at least two of the following: SAS, Python, R, SQL, Java - Spring Boot, ReactJS, Tableau, Qlik, Looker, Power BI, or similar platforms.
• Possess hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Azure) and/or big data ecosystems (e.g., Hadoop).
• Show proficiency with GCP tools like DataProc, BigQuery or similar technologies on other platforms.
• Experience with distributed computing frameworks such as Spark and Hive SQL (Good to have).

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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.

Key skills/competency

• Analytical Solutions
• Innovation Strategy
• Data Management
• Project Leadership
• Financial Services
• Cloud Computing
• Big Data Ecosystems
• SAS/Python/R
• SQL Programming
• Regulatory Compliance