Job Summary

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

Key Responsibilities

The FM CCR BA Team requires a strong Business Analyst to lead several initiatives as part of the Counterparty Credit Risk Technology team. The deliverable will incorporate business and technology deliverables including system upgrades, business workflows and migrations, risk data and control implementations. In this function, the business analyst 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.

•    Work with relevant stakeholders (Traded Risk Management, Limits Monitoring, Reporting, Front Office etc) globally to deliver solutions for Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) management and Front Office.
•    Responsible for the implementations of Counterparty Credit Risk requirements which involve CCR risk measures (Pre-settlement and Settlement risk calculations), limit utilisation calculation, excess management, trade migrations and risk data management.
•    Be an interface between Risk managers, Counterparty Credit Risk Modelling and FO teams to collate all requirements and ensuring that these are translated into tangible ITO deliveries.
•    Ability to work directly with Front-Office desks to deliver markets-driven risk efficiency projects to enable new business enablement and increased sales.
•    Writing business requirements documents that fully and clearly cover the user requirements.
•    Planning the required testing ensuring traceability between requirements and test cases 
•    Undertaking functional testing of the delivered functionality to ensure it meets the requirements, where required documenting issues and managing to resolution 
•    Providing expert support to the business during User Acceptance Testing 
•    Providing user training and support for system implementations including performing user verification testing where required.

General Skills:
•    Strong understanding of Counterparty Credit Risk (IMM, Credit Risk measures and management) and Financial Market trading (OTC, Derivatives and Repo products).
•    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

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.
•    Lead the [FM IT CCIB Team] 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.] * 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

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

Skills and Experience

• SQL / Postgres
• Kafka
• Agile
• Python

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
•    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

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.