HSBC Group

The health and safety of our employees and candidates is very important to us. Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), we’re leveraging our digital capabilities to ensure we can continue to recruit top talent at the HSBC Group.  As your application progresses, you may be asked to use one of our digital tools to help you through your recruitment journey.  If so, one of our Resourcing colleagues will explain how our video-interviewing technology will be used throughout the recruitment process and will be on hand to answer any questions you might have.

Some Careers grow faster 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.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 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 Senior Business Consultant

Why join us? 

Design & Initiation (D&I) plays a key part in the transformational change within HSBC. The team has two core purposes to support this transformational agenda to become a simpler, better, faster organization: 

• Advising leaders with multi-year transformational agendas, providing structure, planning and input to transformation strategy 
• Driving design and mobilization effort on strategic programs, adding speed, certainty and accuracy to the structure and the delivery of program benefits

The Opportunity: 

 The role of the D&I Senior Business Consultant is to help shape and define the change agenda for the Line of Business / Function they support on each engagement by designing solutions to strategic problems of the GB/GFs.

Typically, a Senior Business Consultant will work across various business domains and / or functions, but may choose to align themselves to a particular area as they gain more expertise and experience and as the team size allows.

What you’ll do: 

Problem Solving and Critical Thinking

• Understanding wide array of approaches to information gathering that supports effective problem solving
• Able to navigate through unclear problems and develop structure and definition
• Applying structured thinking in presenting analysis and conclusions
• Taking ownership of solving problems end to end, solving discrete problems systematically and independently

Business Analysis and Design

• Understanding the end to end process of designing, developing and deploying target operating models
• Articulating the use of basic level business models and operating models and participating in their development
• Key contributor within an engagement team to test and refine designs with stakeholders
• Performing effective analysis and gap assessment to the required level of granularity based on different stakeholder needs / views
• Analyzing the current state, identifying the future state and then validating assumptions with stakeholders to align with business requirements

Commerciality

• Understanding the purpose and priorities of the organization, both now and in the future
• Thinking commercially to identify opportunities to develop business from new/existing internal customers
• Considering impact and dependencies of the group priorities for the project and its deliverables
• Challenging business decisions based on domain knowledge Apart from the above responsibilities, resource and team management, plan management maybe necessary.

Apart from the above responsibilities, resource and team management, plan management maybe necessary. 

• Bachelor Degree and MBA/ CA degree preferred
• Prior Big 4 Consulting Experience
• 8-13 years of relevant work experience
• Ability to operate at a management level, working across global business, regions and markets, helping the Consulting Leadership Team to maintain a global perspective on business transformation and consulting efforts.
• Ability to demonstrate the importance and value in engaging consulting support earlier in the change journey to ensure the right problems are being dealt with in priority.
• Ability to play a key role in helping the business define their business problem statements – challenging business perceptions where required.
• Ability to work independently and drive to both strategic / program delivered solutions and quick wins.
• Knowledge of Design Thinking Methodology
• Knowledge of Agile Methodology and Frameworks