Eric Chu

Lead Business Analyst at HSBC

Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

About

Technology and business delivery leaders with 20+ years of experience, currently managing a 100+ people development team. Strong expertise in workflow, process re-engineering, with a focus on aligning technology execution to business outcomes.

Experience

  • HSBC (Full-time · 18 yrs 5 mos)
    • Lead Business Analyst
      Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

      Partnered closely with Product Owners and senior business stakeholders across Corporate & Institutional Banking to shape and deliver a global front-to-back workflow platform. Led a 100+ developer engineering organization using Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot Studio to deliver a true end-to-end journey with consistent user experience —digitizing journeys, integrating with core banking (APIs/RPA), and automating manual operations. Delivered: Digital Credit Platform (credit application to drawdown and monitoring), Account Servicing (omni-channel STP), CDD and Onboarding (digital capture, validation and core banking updates), Risk Activity Monitoring (identification to remediation), Customer Management and AI agents for signature verification and form data extraction/validation.

    • Senior Business Analyst
      Apr 2021 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr

      Bridge business and engineering teams by translating requirements into clear user stories, leading UAT/testing to ensure outcomes meet business expectations, and serving as Scrum Master (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, show & tells). Delivered initiatives including Commercial Real Estate MI (Qlik Sense), Australia Fee Tracker (Microsoft Power Platform), and India Priority Sector Lending (Microsoft Power Platform).

    • Development Manager
      Apr 2013 - Mar 2021 · 8 yrs

      2021: Led a team of Business Analysts across large-scale client onboarding programme in Hong Kong and Europe, shaping business solutions, translating business needs into technical requirements, and defining/executing test scenarios to ensure delivery met expectations. 2018–2020: Agile Product Owner for the Digital & Report Distribution workstream on a major UK Transfer Agency client onboarding programme. Owned the backlog and user story refinement, defined data migration and reconciliation approach, and delivered an API integration with third-party print partner Paragon Communication. 2013–2018: IT Service Owner for Transfer Agency Reporting & Distribution services. Accountable for production stability, BAU enhancements, budgeting and prioritization, vendor management (SAP BusinessObjects, Oracle Financial Services, Victorbuck), and DevOps ways of working (Jira/Kanban-based prioritization and flow). 2016: Risk Control Officer (short-term assignment), Strategic Control of Privileged Access (SCPA), HSS IT. Coordinated remediation of privileged access across 80+ systems, providing SME support and senior management reporting.

  • System Analyst at FDS SOLUTIONS LIMITED
    Jun 2003 - Feb 2008 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    Responsible for delivering image and workflow solution using FileNet. Major clients involved HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, HKSAR Government