Job Summary

The Business Analyst will be responsible for analysing the business processes, identifying areas of improvement and developing strategies to enhance efficiency. The candidate requires strong analytical skills, excellent communication abilities and a deep understanding of business operations and IT systems

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs and gather detailed business requirements.
•    Analyse data to identify patterns, trends, insights.
•    Identify opportunities for process improvements and contribute to ongoing optimization efforts.

Business
•    Financial Crime & Frauds, Payments
•    Data Processing & ETL
•    Machine Learning

Processes
•    Agile Methodology (User Stories, Epics, Tasks, effort estimation)
•    Quantexa certification / knowledge will be a bonus.

People & Talent
•    Strong interpersonal skills, communication skills to articulate at different levels, aptitude for creative problem solving, drive innovation.
•    Work with IT and other departments to implement solutions that meet business needs and objectives.

Risk Management
•    The ability to interpret the Group's financial information, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures.

Governance
•    Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

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
•    FCSO Investigations Hive

Skills and Experience

•    SQL
•    Machine Learning
•    Data Analysis & trend analysis
•    Data Processing & ETL
•    Agile Methodologies & Microsoft ADO
•    Financial Crime
•    Quantexa Platform

Qualifications

•    8+ years of experience
•    Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs and gather detailed business requirements.
•    Analyse data to identify patterns, trends, insights.
•    Work with IT and other departments to implement solutions that meet business needs and objectives.
•    Create detailed documentation of business requirements, processes, and solutions.
•    Identify opportunities for process improvements and contribute to ongoing optimization efforts.
•    Agile Methodology (User Stories, Epics, Tasks, effort estimation), Microsoft ADO, Confluence
•    Quantexa certification / knowledge will be a bonus.
•    Knowledge of Data processing and ETL & SQL
•    Knowledge of Machine Learning models
•    Effective interpersonal skills, communication skills to articulate at different levels, aptitude for creative problem solving, drive innovation.
Education     
•    MBA or an equivalent degree     
Languages     
•    English

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.