Business Analyst, Aspire Subledger (FM)(India, Malaysia)

Job Summary

• Help design and implement new control processes for Subledger Change and Product Control function.
• Monitoring of key controls/ processes around Daily Pnl & Balance Sheet.
• Ensuring that all controls are followed, completed and reviewed in a timely manner.
• Managing Stake holder expectations - Liaising with key stake holders such as Technology, Product Control line teams, in-Country Finance teams, COO, Risk teams and other finance and Ops teams within GBS
• Review of Daily/Month-end reconciliations between the various TP systems and the General Ledger.
• Assist in the design, testing and implementation of TP data integrity / exception reports.
• End to End delivery of Monthly AvF Reconciliation.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with various Finance teams at group and regional levels (incl. Product Control, Financial reporting, Finance Operations, Analytics & forecasting, Tax, treasury) and Data SME’s to understand data requirements and articulate them with Business, Technology and Operations.
• Actively engage with stakeholders (Business, Technology, Operations) to deliver appropriate solutions as per planned timelines.
• Perform Requirements gathering, create & own business artefacts (BRD/FSD, Functional, Interface & mapping specifications, Workflows & TOM)
• Assist Product Owner from conception through to post-implementation review, ensuring all necessary governance steps are followed correctly and completely.
• Follow structured approach to project delivery, provide regular risk / issue updates to Scrum Master
• Work closely with delivery teams – Dev, Testing, Release & PMO teams to comply with PMS and SDF
• Ensure key delivery and implementation risks and issues are identified, and support establishment of appropriate mitigation or action plans throughout
• Delivery-focused, committing to specific tasks and ensuring these and the overall projects deadlines are met.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across SDLC and work closely with the PO to drive agile delivery.
• Plan & liaise with the Dev & QA teams by leading & tracking the progress of business requirements towards delivery.
• Perform brainstorming & ideate process improvement steps focusing on efficiency across Project & BAU deliverables.
  
  

Strategy

• Involvement in all stages of change programme lifecycle, from initiation and design to post-implementation
• Ensure Sub Ledger Data can support Finance requirements
• Validate upstream booking systems data as fit for Finance use
• Liaise with stakeholders and team members across various locations and time zones
  
  

Business

• Link between Business teams and technology partners in ensuring delivery supports Business requirements.
• Performs systems and user acceptance testing
• Being Client Focus: Ensuring the business requirements, and proposed solutions, achieve the customers’ goals
  
  

Processes

• Perform Requirements gathering, create & own business artefacts (BRD/FSD, Functional, Interface & mapping specifications, Workflows & TOM)
• Assist Product Owner from conception through to post-implementation review, ensuring all necessary governance steps are followed correctly and completely.
• Follow structured approach to project delivery, provide regular risk / issue updates to Scrum Master
• Collaborate with stakeholders across SDLC and work closely with the PO to drive agile delivery
  
  

People & Talent

• Work closely with delivery teams – Dev, Testing, Release & PMO teams to comply with PMS and SDF
• Plan & liaise with the Dev & QA teams by leading & tracking the progress of business requirements towards delivery.
• Perform brainstorming & ideate process improvement steps focusing on efficiency across Project & BAU deliverables
  
  

Risk Management

• Documenting non-compliance areas and ensure appropriate Finance stakeholders sign-off specific reasons for non-compliance (for example, a system or booking model limitation)
• Keeping project team well informed of the design and execution dependencies within the programme and outside the programme.
• Acting as point of contact for data change related queries
  
  

Skills And Experience

• Involvement in all stages of change programme lifecycle, from initiation and design to post-implementation
• Ensure Sub Ledger Data can support Finance requirements
• Validate upstream booking systems data as fit for Finance use
• Liaise with stakeholders and team members across various locations and time zones
• Link between Business teams and technology partners in ensuring delivery supports Business requirements.
• Performs systems and user acceptance testing
• Understands how to configure SAP enrichment logic and mapping tables to achieve desired accounting outcome
  
  

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.