Job Summary

•    This is a Tech-Functional Business Analyst role, responsible for analysing, documenting, and managing business and functional requirements across the CDUPS platform (Confirmations Domain). The role acts as the bridge between Business, Product Owners, Operations, Architecture, Development, and Testing teams to ensure successful delivery of strategic initiatives, regulatory changes, platform enhancements, and production stability improvements.
•    The candidate will work closely with stakeholders across Financial Markets technology and operations teams to define requirements, conduct impact analysis, support solution design, and facilitate end-to-end delivery through Agile methodologies.
•    This role requires strong domain knowledge in Financial Markets Post-Trade processing, excellent stakeholder management skills, and the ability to operate in a complex global environment

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis
•    Elicit and document business, functional and non-functional requirements.
•    Conduct workshops with Product Owners, Operations, Business users, and Technology teams.
Prepare:
•    Business Requirement Documents (BRD)
•    Functional Specification Documents (FSD)
•    User Stories
•    Acceptance Criteria
•    Process Flows
•    Data Mapping Specifications
•    Perform impact analysis across upstream and downstream applications.

Solution Design Support
•    Collaborate with Architects and Development teams to define solution approaches.
•    Review technical designs to ensure alignment with business requirements.
•    Support API, interface, and message format design discussions.
•    Analyse data flows and integration touchpoints.

Agile Delivery
•    Participate in Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Reviews, and Retrospectives.
•    Work closely with Product Owners to prioritise requirements.
•    Manage requirement traceability throughout the delivery lifecycle.
•    Support estimation activities and release planning.

Testing & Validation
•    Assist in defining test scenarios and acceptance testing criteria.
•    Support SIT, FIT, UAT and Production Validation activities.
•    Review test evidence and validate defect resolution.
•    Coordinate with business stakeholders during UAT.

Stakeholder Management
Engage with: 
•    Product Owners
•    Operations Teams
•    Development Teams
•    Test Teams
•    Programme Managers
•    Architecture Teams
•    Production Support Teams
•    Provide regular updates on requirement status and risks.

Governance & Risk
•    Ensure compliance with SDLC, ADO and Change Governance standards.
•    Support CAB, Release and Audit activities when required.
•    Maintain project documentation and requirement repositories.

Domain Responsibilities (CDUPS Specific)
Support business and technical analysis across: 
•    Rates
•    FXO
•    NDF
•    Commodities
•    Confirmations
•    UBER Integration (Trade)
•   Product Migration Initiatives

Analyse impacts from: 
•    Murex Decommission programs
•    FMRP onboarding activities
•    Static Data changes
•    Regulatory initiatives
•    Production issues and defect remediation

•    Work with upstream and downstream applications to ensure end-to-end process integrity. Based on CDUPS (Confirmations) programme activities where BA participation in requirement discussions and programme alignment has been identified as a key success factor. 

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.

Skills and Experience

Functional
•    Financial Markets domain experience.
•    Trade Lifecycle understanding.
•    Post Trade Processing experience.
•    Requirements elicitation and documentation.
•    Process modelling and workflow analysis.

Technical
•    SQL and Data Analysis.
•    API and Interface understanding.
•    Azure DevOps (ADO).
•    Confluence and JIRA.
•    Data Mapping and Message Structures.

Soft Skills
•    Stakeholder Management.
•    Communication and Presentation.
•    Problem Solving.
•    Analytical Thinking.
•    Collaboration.
•    Risk Identification.

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.