Business Analyst

About Standard Chartered

We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.

We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.

The Role Responsibilities

As a Business Analyst /PM within Financial Markets Regulatory programme, you will be involved in critical regulatory projects, working in a dynamic global team with software engineers, other project managers, business stakeholders, Operational partners and other technical experts globally.

Remit:

• Perform in-depth analysis around key requirements of the project and regulatory changes (Trade Reporting Regulatory projects).
• Work with technology teams to design the reconciliation solution and process, implement the reconciliation tool into SCB architecture.
• Articulate the Scope / requirements in standard documents/process flow diagrams/use case diagrams etc to secure signoff from stakeholders.
• Participation in industry forums / calls and interpretation of new regulations or changes to existing regulations.
• Conduct meetings and relevant discussions to engage stakeholders in the right perspective and take the requirements/ specifications to closure.
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders both internal (Legal, Compliance, other tech teams, Transaction Reporting teams) and external (DTCC, Industry calls, Regulators etc).
• Identify risks & issues and communicate them to the relevant people/ PM in a timely manner - assist with proposing & planning mitigating steps.
• Determine Strategic Solutions / Proposals - focusing on long term efficiency, risk reduction and regulatory compliance
• Maintain a culture of risk awareness and proactive resolution.
• Facilitates Business process improvement via the methodical investigation, analysis, review and documentation of functional business specifications
• Co-ordinate and manage the delivery of the project across FMO, IT and relevant FO teams
• Provide solutions as well as produce a clear cut functional specifications for development team.
• Use appropriate tools like JIRA, WIKI etc to ensure that Functional Specifications are split and managed with development team in terms of clarity and implementation.
• Pro-actively engage, manage & build relationships with both technology (including vendors) & business stakeholders.
• Assist the PM with planning of BA tasks.
• Support the test team & business users during the testing phase by making design calls & assisting in issue analysis & resolution
• Support the transition to the production support team.
• Conduct Knowledge sharing/ staff learning program within the team
• Mentor junior Business Analysts to perform their roles in a better manner.Click here to enter text.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Minimum of 12 years of BFSI experience with at least 10+ years of Regulatory reporting experience
• Experience of regulatory regimes (SFRT/MIFID/EMIR/Dodd Frank) is very important.
• SQL, Unix, ELK and Big data (Hadoop) required
• Data analysis using SQL, ELK, Tableau and Excel
• Good experience of managing change - both project leadership and business analysis skills
• Experience of OTC products & trade lifecycle aligned to industry best practice
• Ability to document functional solution designs of high quality with no ambiguity.
• Articulate requirements clearly by using graphic and workflow tools like Visio, wireframe tools etc.
• Ability to work proactively & independently and display initiative
• Pragmatic team player with an attention to detail
• Excellent communication and organizational skills with ability to work effectively cross department and geography
• Proactive and driven individual - independent thinker able to influence and motivate others.
• Confidence to challenge the status quo & provide alternative solutions
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience of agile analysis & development is desirable

Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions.

To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages. We welcome conversations on flexible working.