Sr. Business Analyst

This job is with Standard Chartered Bank, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• The successful candidate will be part of the global credit market Technology team covering Corporate Finance, Equities and Credit Trading working initially on Equities Trading platform delivery focusing Derivatives, and CBs for Transaction reporting and related downstream integration.
  
  

Business

• Financial Markets covering Equities, Credits, Loans space.
  
  

Processes

• The candidate must have at least 10-12 years of relevant experience
• With banks or product companies with strong business analysis skills
• Delivering data (reference, market, trade/events/cash) related scopes in equity related project
  
  

People & Talent

• Good knowledge of Financial Market processes (Trade processing, Life cycling, Risk, back office, etc).
• Good understanding of Equity products front-to-back.
• Relevant experiences in financial markets or corporate finance technology covering:
• Business analysis in an agile setting.
• Gathering requirements and writing clear functional specifications / stories and getting them delivered.
• Delivering interface analysis and data modelling.
• Translating requirements / business problems into a clear set of technical specifications forming a solution.
• Managing and removing impediments and providing pro-active day-to-day support to users across key owned / supported systems / interfaces.
• Ability to work with clear strategy, provide clarity and facilitate discussions to reach consensus/business decisions.
• Good problem-solving capabilities and execution.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement.
• Strong scope and accountability management.
• Strong regular communication highlighting impediments and requesting help where required / reporting to management on progress.
  
  

Risk Management

• Support users as required.
• Delivery co-ordinator with all the downstream systems connected.
• Ensure requirements are specified in a manner suitable for the intended audiences - understandable and unambiguous.
• Manage requirements from initiation to closure by working with business stakeholders and technology delivery teams.
• Identify and engage stakeholders, define Responsible/Accountable/Consulted/Informed (RACI) matrix suitable for the scope assigned.
• Lead discussion with the project team to identify actions and steps required to achieve business goals and needs.
• Develop Business Requirement as JIRA backlog, establish traceability to business vision and objectives, act as SME for users.
• Obtain stakeholder buy-in and sign-off on business requirements.
• Adhere to change management standards & procedures, including documenting and capturing all artefacts (Requirements, FSDs, Data Dictionaries, Signoffs, Minutes of meetings) required by project governance.
  
  

Governance

• Obtain stakeholder buy-in and sign-off on business requirements.
• Adhere to change management standards & procedures, including documenting and capturing all artefacts (Requirements, FSDs, Data Dictionaries, Signoffs, Minutes of meetings) required by project governance.
  
  

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)
  
  

Key stakeholders

• Front Office Traders
• Middle Office
• Trade Control
• Market Data and Static data team
• Downstream consumers
  
  

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in Financial Markets; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); downstream user engagement and delivery.
  
  

Skills And Experience

• Oracle - SQL alike
• Data Modelling
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Confluence / ADO / Jira
• Trade Capture and Processing Tools
  
  

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.