Lead Business Analyst, FM Trade Management

Job Summary

SABRE (Standard Chartered Analytics Booking and Risk Engine) is the bank’s strategic platform for Financial Markets Risk and Valuations. It is entirely developed in house. SABRE is also the central data repository for all Financial Markets transactions providing information for regulatory and non-regulatory trade reporting purposes.

This role sits withing the FM Trade data services team which involves extending the SABRE Trade Lake which is a core component of the platform, to build a future-proof trade store solution meeting on-going regulatory projects requirements, as well as enabling the strategic aim of reducing point to point connections and reliance on fragmented legacy systems, and supporting advanced Analytics on FM Trade data.

In-flight Work On The Platform Includes

• Extension of the current data model (FpML) to support new use cases
• Extension of the Trade Lake API supporting high performance querying on a Business data dictionary of trade attributes, enabling quick turnaround of business benefits through self-service data extraction capability
• Support for direct Trade Booking and Life-Cycling within the SABRE Application
• Formulate and transition the Trade Lake control framework into BAU
• On-going remediation of data accuracy and data completeness gaps
• Supporting other project / reporting demands (MiFID2, SFTR, SEC, MAR, Securities Settlements, etc…)
  
  

Key Responsibilities

Job Purpose

• Building strong, effective relationships with both the business and technology teams, across global offices.
• Collaborating with trade platform teams, project teams and control functions to gather requirements, solve business problems by proposing relevant, innovative solutions
• Working across Trade Processing platforms (ECommerce, SABRE, Murex 3.1, Murex 2.11, BTS (Bloomberg Trading System), Apex, Wealth Management platforms)
• Working as part of an agile team including Business Analysts, Developers and Testers and being able to identify business implications of technical design decisions and influence them accordingly.
• Being a creative source of proposals and channelling user aspiration towards sustainable and future proof solutions
• Deliver functional consistency across the various projects by influencing architecture and design decisions
• Translating and documenting business requirements
• Working across asset classes of FX, ALM, Rates, Credits and Commodities
• Understand user requirements and study the feasibility. Propose solutions that align to the strategic roadmap. Cleary document and agree on assumptions, shortfalls and timelines to resolve the known constraints and dependencies.
• Pro-actively highlight risk and issues. Engage, manage and build strong relationships with both business and technology stakeholders
• Translate solutions into detailed, unambiguous, business and functional requirements
• Ensure the overall quality of business requirements, functional specifications and other supporting documents meet the bank’s standards
• Work proactively with fellow BAs and other team members, ensuring work is proportionally distributed and targets are met
• Ensure documents such as functional specs support the development of practical technology solutions and suitable test cases
• Work as part of a combined cross-functional agile team and support the on-going build as required e.g. drafting/reviewing of test cases, closing out developers open issues/questions, contributing to solution design etc…
• Assist the business with UAT, including communication, planning, preparation and test case preparation
• Identify risks and issues early, plan mitigating steps and communicate these to PMs and business stakeholders in a timely manner
• Work closely with project and programme managers to ensure stakeholders are fully engaged and expectations managed
• Delivery focused, committing to specific tasks and ensuring these and the overall projects deadlines are met
• Data Modelling and Logical Models – Enhance and maintain the Financial Markets data model and other bank data standards including standardisation of SCB XML (physical model mapping) for Financial Market products and transactions, conceptualize logical data models and business data views.
• Understanding of MUREX trade booking, lifecycle events and cash settlement logic is nice to have
  
  

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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *
• Serve as a Director of the Board
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)
  
  

Skills And Experience

• SQL
• Python
• Hadoop / Cloudera / Elastic
  
  

Qualifications

General Skills

• Extensive product knowledge across asset classes encompassing product & trade life cycle (pricing and risk is good to have). (Regulatory like MIFID II, EMIR, CFTC exposure is a plus)
• Experience working on vendor systems (eCommerce platforms, Murex, BTS, Apex, Sophis, S2BX, Wealth systems)
• Ability to work proactively, independently and displays strong initiative
• Pragmatic team player with an attention to detail.
• Ability to accurately translate and document business needs into functional requirements and produce quality documentation
• Ability to drive multiple agenda and effectively manage priorities
• Strong communication and presentation skills with an excellent standard of English (written and spoken)
  
  

Technical Knowledge

• Good understanding of the FO to BO trade flow of financial products, including Middle Office, Operations and Finance activities
• Experience working in big data solutions and data querying tools. Experience in (ES) elastic search is a plus.
• Strong understanding of key technology concepts, basics in SQL, NoSQL, functional programming and architecture. Strong technical acumen is a big plus.
• Experience implementing trade STP having multiple source platforms. FpML knowledge, ISDA CDM standards is a plus.
  
  

Preferred Domain Knowledge

• 10+ years of relevant experience in full end to end financial markets project delivery life cycle
  
  

Other Preferred Skills

• Strong interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills
• Multicultural awareness
• Displays personal authority, integrity and ethics
  
  

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.