Job Summary

This is a leadership role, part of the Fund Services Technology Management Team. The role requires a strong Business Analysis expertise and Agile way of working set coupled with excellent stakeholder management capabilities. The role requires engaging stakeholders across the organization to set expectations and drive partnerships. The responsibilities include delivering client requests and operational efficiency enhancements and transformational changes into the technology landscape. 

Key Responsibilities

Requirement Analysis
• Executes the Technology strategy and roadmap for Fund Accounting, Transfer Agency, Compliance Monitoring and data transformation applications. 
• Drives standardization of operational processes aligning to strategic Technology principles aligning to the SCB standards and best practices
• Develops best practices in the software development and builds that culture within the developer / tester community

Solution Design
• Engages with the Product and Operations stakeholders regularly and consistently building trust and confidence. 
• Open and transparent communications on project deliveries are essential. Understanding of the business parlance in Fund Services is key.  

Processes
• Manages the Scrum team with razor-like focus on the end-to-end delivery and quality – sticking to committed timelines and helping remove impediments
• Runs the agile ceremonies diligently with the letter and spirit
• Following the SCB processes of release and Change Management, architecture, and Technology standards
• Works with production support, operations and other stakeholders to deliver changes
• Analyses and reviews the code deliveries for quality and best practices
• Coordinates with the vendor partners for appropriate deliveries from vendors

People & Talent 
• Mentors, develops, coaches and guides the team members through exemplary behaviour and support interventions
• Takes pride in the team’s achievements and gives credit to where its due 

Risk Management
• Participates in identification of non- functional requirements like security requirements performance objectives
• Manages the risks of deliveries and reaches out for help at appropriate times
    
Governance 
• Sets up / follows appropriate prioritization / delivery governance as well as Lining up the work (LUW)
• Picks up new technologies with ease, solves complex technical problems and multitasks between different projects
• Periodically reports status to the Management team
• Actively participants and contributes to Scrum of scrums and refinement forums

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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] 
• Serve as a Director of the Board 
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent) 

Key stakeholders
• Product, Operations, Technology

Qualifications

• Degree in Business / Accounting / Banking or equivalent
• Certification in Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Process modelling – will be beneficial
• Certification in Agile Scrum Master or Product owner, Project Management (PMP, etc) would be good to have

Skills and Experience

• Scrum Master
• Development Manager
• Business / Data Analysis
• Oracle PL/SQL or SQL Server or other DB technologies
• Java or .NET or any front end technologies
• Architect skills
• Reporting / Dashboard tools like Oracle BI Publisher, Tableau, Kibana, Power BI
• Multifonds or any other Fund Accounting or Transfer Agency application

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.