Job Summary

•    Counterparty Credit Risk Business Analyst for driving the various Sales Efficiency projects with the goal to achieve the SCB Group’s RoTE targets.

RESPONSIBILITIES

•    The FM CCR BA Team requires a strong Business Analyst to lead a number of initiatives as part of the Sales Efficiency Program. The deliverable will incorporate business and technology deliverables including system upgrades,business workflows and migrations, risk data and control implementations. In this function, the lead is responsible for high quality analytics requirements produced by the team, definition of target operating model, testing, training, and user support for various projects focused on Traded Credit Risk / Sales Efficiency.

•    Work with relevant stakeholders (Traded Risk Management, Limits Monitoring, Reporting,Front Office etc) globally to deliver solutions for Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) management / Sales efficiency for FOs.
•    Manage requirements across multiple workstreams through Agile development process.
•    Work with Development teams to onboard business requirements to technical solutions including all business workflows enabling the Credit Risk management by the TRMs /enhancing Sales efficiency for the FOs.
•    Bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technology partners by providing clear business requirements and defining clear acceptance criteria
•    Identify gaps thorough stakeholder interviews and data analysis
•    Ensure traceability between requirements and test cases.
•    Collaborate with team members across various locations and time zones to ensure solution is consistent across all asset classes where applicable
•    Undertake functional testing to ensure quality of delivery before it is passed on to the stakeholders for UAT.
•    Agile planning of deliveries and staying on the top of the delivery cadence throughout the requirement lifecycle(inception to Go Live).
•    Able to identify and raise risks and issues if project milestones are at risk.
•    Decommission legacy systems and transition users to the strategic platforms.
•    Backing up the Scrum master/Sr BAs as and when required.
•    Providing user training and support where required.

Key Responsibilities

General Skills

•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters
•    Business Analysis (e.g. gathering user requirements, data analysis)
•    Coordinate User Acceptance Testing
•    Ability to multi-task and liaise directly with Risk Managers, IT partners and Front Office members.
•    Familiarity and demonstrates confidence working in an agile development environment
•    Self-starter who can manage timelines, drive/facilitate requirements and communicate with Developers

Skills and Experience

Technical Knowledge 

•    Strong Agile Knowledge.
•    Any experience with technologies such as PostgreSQL, Kafka or ElasticSearch is a plus.
•    Oracle PL/SQL knowledge, SQL Tuning is a plus
•    Scripting programming in Python is a plus
•    Good understanding of UI/UX development

Regulatory & Business Conduct

•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

•    Traded Risk Managers, Risk teams, IT partners, Front Office

Qualifications

•    Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Math, Statistics, Economics, Computer science or other related analytical field (Masters a plus) 
•    7-8 years of experience in delivering change in Credit Risk
•    Product Owner experience would be a plus.
•    Working experience on Active Pivot would be a plus.
•    Strong understanding of Counterparty Credit Risk.
•    Strong experience in implementing projects using Agile methodology
•    Good understanding of UI/UX development
•    Good to have programming experience in Python, SQL, Kafka or ElasticSearch is a plus.
•    Experienced in data visualization
•    Strong written and oral communication skills

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

•    Sql / postgres
•    Kafka
•    Agile
•    Python
•    Active pivot
•    Product owner 

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.