Job Summary

The Securities Settlement Technology team requires a candidate who would be able to perform both business analyst and project management roles to support technical deliveries, business demands and the requirements management process as well as work with various vendor and internal technology and operations teams in order to roll out the strategic platform for the securities Settlement ,hence the functional knowledge of post-trade processing process is must. This is a project role that incorporates many deliverables.

The successful candidate will be an experienced business analyst with a track record of 8+ years in delivering, complex project outcomes for the fixed income and repo business area.

• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Assisting technology stakeholders in exploring solutions appropriate to meet the operational and business/functional requirements defined.
• Working with business and technology stakeholders to elicit business requirements and produce user stories in an Agile model
• Work closely with vendors based in different location on number of deliverables.
• Interact with various teams with in the bank, for example, Sourcing, Compliance etc relating to outsourcing review and approvals.
• Have experience of working in Agile env with multiple team and location involved.
• Working with stakeholders to draft test cases which can be traced back to the requirements;
• Support technology delivery and testing teams in solution delivery and implementation
• Writing test cases, analysing testing data, test flows and testing strategies.
• Address defects and risk evaluation and mitigation
• Coordinating with cross discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules. Ensure that the project is managed in line with good project management practices
• Define and formulate the implementation plan (including key dependencies, resource requirements and interlocks
• Provide periodic project updates to project working group and steering committees
• Define and monitor at a work stream level key risk and issues and manage them as defined in PMP guidelines
• Establishing effective project communication plans and ensuring their execution.
• Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
• Conducting post project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements

Key Responsibilities

• A Bachelor’s Degree/MBA or equivalent
• Minimum 8 years of Business Analyst experience in Securities Settlement process, preferably for GPTM Platform
• Strong knowledge in fixed income and repo settlement, with minimum 3 years of front to back technology project experience in performing both business analysis and some project management
• Good Knowledge in Financial Market instruments
• Excellent communication & documentation skills
• Ability to engage, influence and independently drive outcomes effectively across stakeholder groups, from working level through to senior management
• Agile/ Scrum experience
• A proven track record of delivery excellence
• Analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• Strong planning, organizational, and time management skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Competency in Jira and Microsoft applications including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook

Governance
•    Establish good governance process in the team to ensure quality delivery.
•    Ensure minimal release rollbacks, minimum post release production issues

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.
 

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or above

Skills and Experience

• SQL
• Bigdata
• Analytical skill
• Presentation / Communication skills

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.