Job Summary

The Financial Markets Intelligence Unit (FMIU) is responsible for the end to end process of delivering analytics and insights to the global Sales & Trading organisation. The team consists of technologists and product owners who focus on driving monetization through data-driven solutions.
The Technical Analyst (TA) in FMIU team will build tools to execute the data, analytics, and insights strategy globally across the Markets franchise. This individual will join the FMIU collaborating with Sales, Trading, COOs, control function, and technology stakeholders to deliver best in class digital analytics products and solutions.
The TA will focus specifically on managing and enhancing a suite of analytics tools designed to rapidly deliver insights that preserve our business or monetize new opportunities. This role is equal parts innovation and implementation with a strong emphasis on creative solutions to drive monetization across the FM franchise. 
Day to day activities include developing data solutions, building UI for end user consumption, and working with users to iterate and improve the products. The TA will own and manage project lifecycles to deliver an ongoing portfolio of analytics solutions. 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Partner with control functions to deploy new analytics in accordance with regulatory guidelines; help to frame internal policies and processes to guide the use of data 
•    Work closely with COO, Technology, and data science teams across the firm to guide the development of rules-based and machine learning models to support Markets initiatives   

Business
•    Awareness and understanding of core Financial Market products, platforms, and trading life cycles.
•    Partner with senior stakeholders to conceptualise, build, and deploy new analytic capabilities in the form of dashboards, alerts, or interactive reports to support business insights
•    Take ownership of a suite of analytics, becoming the subject matter expert across several business products
•    Act as first port of call with users to investigate issues and prioritise enhancements
•    Drive adoption by forging relationships with sales & trading users to ensure product is fit for purpose 
•    Build data solutions and test against business cases with Sales and Trading partners 

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

•    Head of Macro Trading and Trading Management Team
•    Head of FM Sales and Sales Management Team, including sales level 1, level 2, level 3 leads

Our Ideal Candidate

• 3 plus years experience in data analytics in a banking industry
• Bachelor’s degree preferably in computer science, engineering, finance background.
• Good knowledge in data visualization.
• Experience in Python & query language like SQL is a must. 
• Experience in JavaScript and Unix scripting and Power BI is preferred
• Experience in developing and consuming web API is preferred.
• Experience in data science or data engineering is a plus. 

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Data Analytics
• Query Language
• Programming  (preferably python)
• BI (Business Intelligent) Tool

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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