Job Summary

The successful candidate will play a crucial role in delving into the various aspects of financial market operations, driving improvements, and ensuring compliance with industry regulations. This position demands a comprehensive understanding of financial markets, instruments, and operational processes.

As a business analyst you will be Driving the delivery of robust, efficient, cost-effective, timely technical solutions to evolving regulatory, control, conduct and supervisory requirements on both tactical and strategic levels.

About our Financial Market Operations Team

Our Financial Market Operations team partners with our sales and product colleagues to play a crucial role in ensuring the seamless execution and settlement of complex financial transactions. By removing inefficiencies and complexity, we’re responsible for delivering a positive client experience and leading transformational change. It’s challenging, strategically important work, and you’ll continuously innovate to ensure we stay at the forefront of technological industry trends. Join our team to build your career at the very heart of the financial industry.

About our Technology & Operations Team

Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.

When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170-year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today. ​

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Awareness and understanding of the Group’s FM strategy and model for the role. 
• Supporting the vision of Senior Management in the conduct, Controls, and Regulatory compliance space
• Driving the delivery of robust, efficient, cost-effective, timely technical solutions to evolving regulatory, control, conduct and supervisory requirements on both tactical and strategic levels.
• Building a culture of mutual trust with stakeholders
• Strong influencing skills
• Driving optimal performance through evolving the FM Conduct and Control Operating Model
• Clearly defining roles, responsibilities and business ownership structures
• Ensuring adequate team coaching and management. 
• Setting clear direction for the team.
• Driving efficiencies, cost savings

Business

• Awareness and understanding of the wider FM business, economic and market environment in which the Group Operates. This role leads a team that provides core support to the business by providing risk management services.
• Responsible for aligning the team structure in accordance with the business structure to ensure effective risk management.
• Responsible for the strategic direction and provision of effective Product Ownership for all technical systems supporting the vision of Senior Management in the Conduct, Controls, and Regulatory compliance space

Processes

• Responsible for the effective delivery of Front Office Conduct, Control and Regulatory Compliance activities, ensuring all SLAs are met, stakeholders are kept informed and issues resolved effectively. 
• Responsible for work elimination of Financial Markets Control activities considered to be of lower value, to deliver further efficiencies
• Responsible for the automation of Financial Markets Control activities to drive efficiencies. 

People & Talent

• Responsible for continuously developing a team of strong risk managers.
• Responsible for leading through example and building the appropriate culture and values. Sets appropriate tone and expectations for the team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Responsible for leading and supporting a change in mindset, building a culture of client centricity, agility, and accountability through standardised metrics and measurement.
• Responsible for driving training and communications to promote awareness and continuous learning for risk control and governance aspects.
• Responsible for ensuring the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.

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

• FM Business Heads, FM Group and Regional COO teams, FM Functional Heads, FM Compliance, FM MT

Other Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing a strong working relationship across all FM risk and risk ops teams and locations.
• Responsible for leveraging the opportunity provided by Corporate Social Responsibility to enhance the Group’s internal and external reputation and indirectly influence the bottom line.
• Responsible for promoting the Group’s brand and Here for good with employees, clients and regulators. 
• Responsible for performing other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.
• Responsible for maintaining effective communication with key stakeholders, and staff.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 15+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in the banking or financial services industry.
• Strong knowledge of financial markets, instruments, and operational processes.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and methodologies, such as Excel or SQL.
• Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to interact with various senior stakeholders.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Business Communication
• Data Science / Artificial Intelligence
• Working knowledge of FM Business
• Risk Management – Operational
• Facilitating effective coordination between business and functions
• Technology processes
• Change Management
   

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.

Recruitment Assessments

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