# Consultant Specialist

**Company**: HSBC
**Location**: Guangzhou, Guangdong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist.

Business: IWPB Technology

Principal responsibilities:

- Work with Product Owners, business users, operations, and technology teams to analyse business needs and translate them into clear requirements, user stories, functional specifications, process flows, and acceptance criteria.

- Facilitate requirement walkthroughs, impact assessments, and solution discussions across business, technology, testing, risk, and control stakeholders.

- Support Core Banking and Payments delivery by clarifying scope, managing requirement traceability, analysing dependencies, resolving requirement queries, and ensuring delivery teams have a shared understanding of expected outcomes.

- Partner with architects, developers, QA, DevOps, and support teams to ensure solutions are feasible, supportable, scalable, and aligned with operational and control expectations.

- Support SIT, UAT, regression testing, defect triage, release readiness, operational handover, and post-implementation review to ensure delivered solutions meet business needs.

- Proactively identify requirement gaps, process issues, risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities, and drive timely clarification or resolution.

- Maintain high-quality documentation, including BRDs, functional specifications, user stories, process maps, data/interface requirements, decision records, and stakeholder updates.

- Act as a trusted Senior Business Analyst for Core Banking and Payments stakeholders, bringing clarity, structure, and delivery focus to complex business and technology change.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, IT, Business Information Systems, or a related discipline.

- 6+ years of experience in business analysis, technology delivery, product analysis, or banking system implementation, preferably in financial services.

- Strong knowledge of Core Banking and Payments domains, including business flows, operational processes, system integration, transaction lifecycle, reconciliation, exception handling, and risk/control considerations.

- Proven experience translating business needs into BRDs, functional specifications, user stories, process flows, data/interface requirements, acceptance criteria, and impact assessments.

- Solid understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, testing lifecycle, release management, production support, and banking technology governance.

- Experience supporting SIT, UAT, regression testing, defect triage, release readiness, operational handover, and post-implementation review.

- Strong understanding of system integration, APIs, batch processing, file interfaces, data flows, and upstream/downstream dependencies.

- Technical awareness of IBM iSeries/AS400, Java, Python, SQL, APIs, or enterprise banking platforms would be an advantage.

- Strong analytical, documentation, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the ability to bridge business, technology, operations, risk, and senior stakeholders.

- Proactive ownership mindset, with the ability to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, control issues, and improvement opportunities early.

## Skills

### Required
- business analysis
- technology delivery
- product analysis
- banking system implementation
- Core Banking
- Payments
- SDLC
- Agile delivery
- testing lifecycle
- release management
- production support
- banking technology governance
- system integration
- APIs
- batch processing
- file interfaces
- data flows

### Nice to have
- IBM iSeries/AS400
- Java
- Python
- SQL

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