Job Summary

As a Business Intelligence & Strategy Analyst, you will support the regional Trade Finance and Working capital business by tracking performance metrics, delivering analytical insights, and assisting in the business planning. You will work closely with regional cluster Trade teams – specifically in Europe and the Americas – and provide performance support to the Cluster Head and the management team. 

Key Responsibilities

Business Intelligence Management and Strategy
•    Work closely with the Africa Middle East regional heads in tracking the P&L, trade revenue across markets, and track initiatives and ensuring these are all aligned to the Cluster’s overall Trade strategy.
•    Coordinate across teams to consolidate and validate data inputs related to product launches, enhancements, and client usage trends.
•    Maintain performance dashboards and update revenue scorecards used in regular reviews such as the Monthly Business Reviews (MBR)
•    Prepare regular and ad hoc presentation for internal and senior management using MS Excel and PowerPoint.
•    Support strategic projects by extracting insights from data sets across revenue, pipeline, client segments, and product usage.

Performance and KPI Monitoring
•    Provide performance reporting and business insights to Cluster team in Europe and Americas, supporting their day to day and strategic initiatives.
•    Work closely with the Cluster Head in the region by consolidating inputs, preparing review materials, and helping track execution of key deliverables.
•    Serve as the single point of contact for data consolidation across Europe and the Americas ensuring consistent reporting. 

Commercialisation and Execution Support
•    Track progress of new product initiatives ensuring timely follow up and closures.
•    Help define and track key KPIs at product, client, and country level.
•    Monitor pipeline activity and align it with metrics and revenue goals.
•    Consolidate feedback and inputs from Trade Sales, Client Managers, and Relationship Manager to identify areas of process or data improvement.

Risk and Governance Support
•    Track compliance of initiatives with internal governance policies (e.g. timely exposure of action items, reporting exceptions)
•    Engage and escalate material red flags that arise in the transaction flow.
•    Liaise with key control functions such as Operations, Credit, Legal, and Compliance to mitigate operational and conduct risks related to the product line.

Leadership and Engagement Coordination
•    Work closely with the Global Trade Business Manager together with the Cluster Head for any business-driven initiatives or activities.
•    Assist in the logistics and preparation of performance forums, planning sessions, and any events under the Cluster.
•    Help ensure business intelligence insights are shared within the Cluster and used in ongoing management engagement.

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

•    Microsoft Excel
•    Microsoft Powerpoint
•    Business Intelligence
•    Trade Finance
•    Organisational Skills

Qualifications

Education    Bachelors Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Or a Related Discipline
Languages    Fluent in English

Professional experience:

•    Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or Computer Science from a recognised university.
•     years of experience in banking, financial services, or business analytics/ support role – preferably within Trade Finance or Transaction banking.
•    Exposure to client segments such as multinational companies, large local corporates, or SMEs is an advantage.
•    Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams and support regional / global projects.
•    Strong attention to detail with ability to manage deliverables under tight timelines.
•    Some experience or exposure to project coordination, reporting, or process improvement workstreams.
•    Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact professionally with internal stakeholders.
•    Willingness to learn knowledge in Transaction Banking or Trade Finance.
•    Analytical mindset with moderate or advanced understanding of data tools and reporting platforms such a Excel, PowerPoint, or any Business Intelligence tools such as Tableau or PowerBI.

Competencies

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.

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