Assistant Director – Data and Analytics

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Your career opportunity

CIB Data and Analytics (CIB D&A) is a hub of advanced analytics competency, providing high-end analytics services across global businesses and global functions. The work done in CIB D&A forms a vital input towards for strategic planning by the senior management for businesses and enables effective decision making along with addressing unforeseen challenges.

It provides support to various business groups and the job involves data analysis, model and strategy development & implementation, Business Intelligence, reporting and data management and analysis.

The team based out of multiple locations across the GSCs (India/China/Mexico/Poland) providing analytics, data & insight support to various CIB D&A, CMB/ GB portfolios. Team’s focus is on using logical thought process and relevant statistical techniques and right tools & techniques & productize scaled solutions to analyse product portfolio metrics and risk behaviour to arrive at value-based optimum decisions.

What you’ll do

• Extract, transform, and load (ETL) from various sources, ensuring data quality, accuracy, and integrity. Design and optimize data pipelines, ensuring efficient data extraction, storage, and processing.

• Extract and integrate data from external sources, such as public databases, social media platforms and third-party vendors to enhance advanced analytics capabilities.

• Conduct in-depth analysis of complex transactional and demographic datasets to identify patterns for identifying risk and opportunities.

• Develop innovative and impactful data-based tools and models for propensity modeling and risk mitigation, continuously evaluate the effectiveness of models and make recommendations for improvements.

• Engage various stakeholders to understand and collect project requirement, present analysis and or results, make recommendations on strategy formulation and solicit project feedback.

• Work with and leverage solutions and approaches developed by the wider HSBC Analytics community.

• Own end to end delivery responsibility of Data Science projects and guide, train and mentor junior team members involved in the project.

• Contribute to Data Science chapter initiatives at a CIB D&A level

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Good to have knowledge of Banking domain use cases with specific applications to data science problems.

• 6+ years of relevant experience, preferably in banking and financial sector.

• University degree in Computer Science, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics or any other quantitative related disciplin. 

• Proficiency in using Python, SQL, or similar analytically oriented programming languages.

• In depth knowledge and experience with machine learning techniques and algorithms. Experience with cloud analytics platforms such as GCP, Azure and AWS and big data platforms such as Hadoop, Spark, etc.

• Extensive technical skill in data mining, able to understand various data structures both structured and unstructured and common methods in data transformation.

• High technical aptitude, problem solving abilities, intellectual curiosity, motivation, and passion for data discovery.

• Knowledge and good experience with data visualization tools such as Qlik Sense will be a strong plus.

What we offer

• Competitive salary

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Additional bonuses for recognition awards

• Multisport card

• Private medical care

• Life insurance

• One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).

• Corporate parties & events

• CSR initiatives

• Financial support with trainings and education

• Social fund

• Flexible working hours 

• Free parking

If your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process

• Online behavioural test (for external candidates only)

• Telephone screen (for external candidates only)

• Job Interviews with the hiring manager