Job Summary

Standard Chartered Bank is looking for a Senior Business Analyst. In this role, you will assess processes, anticipate needs, identify areas for improvement, and implement effective solutions. You will work collaboratively with stakeholders to gather requirements and develop user stories within an Agile framework.
Your responsibilities will include creating comprehensive test cases and assisting delivery teams. You will analyze data to assess potential risks and coordinate to ensure project requirements and deadlines are met.
You will define clear implementation plans, provide regular updates, and monitor any risks. Establishing effective communication plans and managing change requests efficiently will be key.

If you have a keen eye for detail and enjoy working in a dynamic, collaborative environment, we would love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Assisting technology stakeholders in exploring solutions appropriate to meet the operational and business/functional requirements defined.
• Working with business and technology stakeholders to elicit business requirements and produce user stories in an Agile model
• Working with stakeholders to draft test cases which can be traced back to the requirements;
• Support technology delivery and testing teams in solution delivery and implementation
• Writing test cases, analysing testing data, test flows and testing strategies.
• Address defects and risk evaluation and mitigation
• Coordinating with cross discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules. Ensure that the project is managed in line with good project management practices
• Define and formulate the implementation plan (including key dependencies, resource requirements and interlocks
• Provide periodic project updates to project working group and steering committees
• Define and monitor at a work stream level key risk and issues and manage them as defined in PMP guidelines
• Establishing effective project communication plans and ensuring their execution.
• Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
• Conducting post project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Proactively identify and mitigate issues/risks which may have an impact on costs/delivery timelines, and raise these to the required governance forums.
• Provide direction and help to the Squads when they face blockers or issues.
• Contributing to consistent successful change releases with zero tolerance for failed or emergency releases.
• Working with the delivery team to ensure solutions agreed are scalable, in alignment with strategic architecture and incorporates risk-based considerations.

Skills and Experience

• Minimum 7 years of working on medium to large projects which involve full front-to-back trade execution to post-trade activities for the Cleared Derivatives business.
• Knowledge of Prime Services and Cleared Derivatives (OTC Cleared and Exchange Traded Derivatives) which are traded/offered by both the SCB House and Prime Business Areas.  
• Financial Markets and a good understanding of Straight Through Processing (STP) flows from front to back office systems.
• Experience using Cleared Derivatives Key Application Solutions, ie Ion XTP, Osttra TRM, Markitwire, Tradeserv, Murex.
• Fluent in ADO or relevant workflow tools to track the project backlog, milestones and timelines.
• Fluent in Confluence or relevant tools to document the results of analysis in a structured and consistent manner.
• Skilled in analysing and documenting detailed data mapping/lineage tables, diagrams and Data Dictionaries to facilitate data flow and integration across multiple applications.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to engage, influence and independently drive outcomes effectively across stakeholder groups, from working level through to senior management.
• Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple priorities and meet tight  & stringent deadlines.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel.

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.