Job Summary

This role is a Testing Analyst role within the Credit Risk. Strong analytical skills are a must for a Testing Analyst. They must be able to quickly analyse a large collection of data and determine results. Knowledge on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and stakeholder management 
•    Perform Control Tests across Risk, Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance
•    Consolidate data / information required to perform the tests.
•    Ensure checks are performed / recorded on time and with accuracy.
•    Follow up on the due / overdue checks with relevant stakeholders / Process Owners (POs).
•    Follow up on the due / overdue checks with relevant stakeholders / Process Owners (POs).
•    Liaise with Country CAAs for clarifications required
•    Liaise with Hub Admin for KCI & CST Samples
•    Liaise with Hub Admin for reports - Previous & Current
•    Liaise with Country CAA on delayed closure of Exceptions
•    Follow up on exceptions and remediation plan
•    Ensure Gap analysis between process and DOI is undertaken.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Support the strategy of Risk function with Business strategy 
•    Crossed Trained across process
•    Share inputs for content on diSCover & Consultation of implementation of ORF controls
•    Productive Prioritise and future focused

Business
•    Identify opportunity of Automation for control testing and enable automation

Processes
•    Ensure checks are performed / recorded on time and with accuracy.

People & Talent
•    To ensure that appropriately trained on process and mandatory eLearning is completed

Risk Management
•    Timely completion of Test and update the exceptions accurately

Governance
•    Assuring compliance with regulatory requirements, industry standards, and continuous quality improvement. 
•    Continuous reconciliation between expectation and output. 
•    Ensuring quality of test results though Peer review within the teams.

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
•    Serve as the main liaison for the Team, ensuring transparency and communication regarding data accuracy standards and protocols.
•    Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with these stakeholders, working collaboratively to achieve shared objectives and resolve any issues promptly while supporting the FCC Credit Risk agenda.

Our Ideal Candidate

•    2+ years of experience within the area of business to which they are assigned, preferably including experience within business operations.
•    Sound judgement and courage necessary to perform a control role and retain effectiveness over time.  
•    The ability to communicate to different levels within the organisation to put across difficult issues and recommendations when necessary.
•    Appropriate academic training and/or experience in Control Testing / Audit.
•    Strong analytical and dispute resolution skills. Ability to command the respect of a cross functional set of professionals at senior level (internal and external). 
•    Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills – written and oral. Meets deadlines.

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.