Lead Business Analyst, FM Trade Management

The Role Responsibilities
Job Scope

• 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 involves extending the SABRE Trade Data Service, 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.)

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Diversity & Inclusion

• Standard Chartered is committed to diversity and inclusion. We believe that a work environment which embraces diversity will enable us to get the best out of the broadest spectrum of people to sustain strong business performance and competitive advantage. By building an inclusive culture, each employee can develop a sense of belonging, and have the opportunity to maximize their personal potential.

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 (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.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8+ years' relevant experience in full end to end financial markets project delivery life cycle
• Strong 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.
• Experience working with XML/FpML and knowledge of ISDA CDM standards is a plus
• Extensive Product knowledge of at least one asset classes amongst FXO, Rates, Credit & Commods encompassing product & trade life cycle is a must have (working knowledge of more than one asset class is a good to have)
• Experience working on vendor systems (eCommerce platforms, Murex, BTS, Apex, Sophis, S2BX, Wealth systems) is a plus
• Experience working on to regulatory regimes like MIFID II, EMIR, CFTC exposure is a big plus

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• SQL
• Excel
• JIRA
• Murex/other risk management system
• Python

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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.

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