Supervisory Research Analyst

**Some career choices have more impact than others.**

**As you will be joining a global team, this role can be based in Australia or the Asia Pacific region**

At HSBC, we exist with the purpose of Opening up a World of Opportunity. We use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to provide opportunities for our customers and colleagues through global connectivity. We bring together the people, ideas and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world - for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities and the planet we all share.

As an HSBC employee you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities, competitive pay, an embedded flexible working culture and a range of employee benefits. These include market-leading subsidised private health cover, enhanced parental pay and support when returning to work, subsidised banking products and services, bonus leave days and wellness programmes including discounted gym memberships.

HSBC’s global capabilities and footprint allow our Global Banking teams to provide a single coverage point for leading Australian and Global Financial Institution clients. Offering vast expertise and local knowledge, especially in emerging markets, Global Banking products and services have been designed to meet the global financial needs of our clients, whatever and wherever they are.

Your key focus will be to review and approve research documents written by Global Research analysts from a regulatory perspective to enable global distribution of research to institutional investors that is compelling and meets regulatory standards. At HSBC, we work closely with our editorial, production and distribution specialists in all regions, including China. We pay special attention to interpreting compliance and regulatory directives, editorial quality, managing work flow, scheduling, attending and contributing to product quality control meetings with research management, recording approvals for audit purposes, coordinating pre-deal research, and supervising translation from Chinese into English. We review communications with the public in compliance with SROs’ requirements for equity, fixed income, strategy, economics and currency research in all regions. We also develop in-house standards and systems to ensure that equity, fixed income and currency research provides in-depth valuation analysis, risk assessment, and other information that clients need to make their investment decisions, improving consistency and clarity, and adding disclaimers and disclosures as needed.

We work with management and the compliance teams to develop and improve awareness among analysts regarding regulatory issues and developments. We provide training to new analysts as well. You will also co-ordinate and draft Market Risk inputs to Group reporting documents (e.g. Annual Report and entity specific regulatory reporting), developing and maintaining strong working relationships with the Australian and offshore based Market Risk teams. You will also produce various reporting packs relating to Market Risk for Senior Management, the Board and Regulators.

The core to success in this role will be your ability to communicate effectively with Global Research management, product management, analysts, research and compliance teams, other Supervisory Research Analysts as well as production staff.

**Your main responsibilities will include**:

- Ongoing assessment of operational risks associated with the role and inherent in the business, taking account of changing economic or market conditions, legal and regulatory requirements, operating procedures and practices, management restructuring and the impact of new technology
- Demonstrating compliance with HSBC standards, manuals and policies and adheres to the defined work practices, internal controls and risk management standards associated with the role
- Innovative thinking to refresh style and content of reports where the opportunity arises
- Maintaining HSBC internal control standards, including the timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators
- Developing proficiency in various tech tools used by Global Research, including our proprietary publishing system

Requirements

**To be successful in this role you will need**:

- An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in a relevant business discipline
- Active Series 16 licence is required; Series 3 or 4 licence a plus
- Previous experience as a Supervisory Analyst with strong domain expertise within the financial services/market
- Prior exposure to financial statement analysis, good quantitative skills and excellent writing skills
- Ability to work proactively and both autonomously and collaboratively; ability to multi-task and work efficiently against tight deadlines in a global and matrix environment
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing