# Associate II - Strategy and Insights

**Company**: UK Business
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking an Associate II - Strategy and Insights to join our team in HSBC Innovation Banking UK's Strategy and Insights team.

The team is dedicated to achieving sustainable revenue growth by integrating business intelligence and market insights with business planning and execution.

As a Senior Associate in Strategy and Insights, you will contribute to shaping strategic direction, demonstrating a proven ability to add value to the business.

Responsibilities:

- Analyse business trends and market intelligence to help shape strategies, maintain a competitive edge, and optimise our operating model

- Conduct structured research into venture capital funding, investor activity, and emerging technology sectors, combining company and market data to identify trends and commercial opportunities

- Develop and maintain reusable analytical models, scripts, and data workflows to support market sizing, company benchmarking, and client segmentation

- Support in recognising new strategic opportunities to expand revenue and roadmaps to achieve them

- Bring consistency to Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy by helping to define best practices

- Break down informational silos to ensure business decisions are based on the entire story and empower data-driven decision making to raise our returns

- Increase efficiency through technology, automation, and optimising cross-departmental processes allowing our frontline sales teams to spend more time in the market

- Build competitive advantage through thought leadership and position HSBC Innovation Banking (HINV) as the leader of innovative content

- Use exceptional problem-solving skills to tackle unique challenges

- Foster and maintain strong relationships across multiple teams, enhancing collaboration by integrating diverse perspectives and dimensions into projects and decision-making processes

- Engage regularly with stakeholders, working through team priorities and dealing with ad-hoc requests

- Support the delivery of large-scale technology projects by providing subject matter expertise and strategic insights

Skills and Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in a quantitative field such as economics, finance, mathematics, statistics, computer science, or engineering

- Strong understanding of technology, life sciences, start-up, venture capital, and corporate finance ecosystems

- Experience in research, quantitative analysis, or analytical development within venture capital, technology, or a related financial services environment

- Proficient in sourcing, cleaning, combining, and analysing large data sets to derive meaningful insights

- Knowledge of commercial banking structures, products, and business models are desirable

- Ability to work collaboratively across departments, efficiently managing multiple projects with meticulous attention to detail

- Effective problem-solving skills, with experience in enhancing sales productivity through technology, automation, and optimising cross-departmental processes

- Adaptable and open to change, capable of adjusting strategies to meet evolving business needs

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Ability to deliver presentations and training to diverse audiences

- Practical proficiency in Python or R and SQL for quantitative research and automation, and in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel

- Experience in fast-paced environments, demonstrating efforts towards personal development

- Desired familiarity with sales tools such as CRM Dynamics, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Outreach, Qlik, PitchBook, Beauhurst, CapIQ, Dealroom, etc.

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Excel
- quantitative analysis
- data analysis
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- CRM Dynamics
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator
- Outreach
- Qlik
- PitchBook
- Beauhurst
- CapIQ
- Dealroom

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