Lead, Business Solution

JOB SCOPE
To drive Market Risk initiatives within Financial Markets Technology investment programmes. The role will cover the management of system upgrades and migrations, risk data and control implementations, front-end UX design, reporting, and risk analytics development against business, technology, and regulatory commitments. This role will also involve coordination with FM Technology Change counterparts to deliver a harmonised platform across Traded Risk.
In this function, the senior business analyst is responsible for eliciting user requirements, documentation, driving initiatives, testing, training and user support for various projects focused on Traded Market Risk.
Key Roles and Responsibility:

• Work with relevant market risk stakeholders including 2 nd line, 1 st line and Market Risk Analytics to deliver the reporting and analytics solution
• Have sufficient knowledge in all major asset classes to be able to coordinate across ongoing initiatives
• Manage cross-workstream requirements and escalate dependencies / blockers to the product owner when required
• Work with development teams to deliver relevant components for the reporting solution including risk metrics and limit management components

• Be an interface between stakeholders to collate and challenge requirements, then ensure these are translated into tangible technology deliveries
• Write requirements as user stories that fully and clearly describe the user requirements, rationale, and acceptance criteria including test cases / prototypes where required
• Support functional testing of the delivered functionality to ensure it meets the requirements; where required document issues and manage to resolution
• Provide SME support to the business during User Acceptance Testing
• Develop risk dashboards and tailor reports and visualisations based on a variety of user needs (analytical reports, new / evolving risk heatmaps, senior management MI)
• Write user guides and develop audio / visual material for online user training
• Provide support for system releases where required
• Review and support the work of Junior BAs to ensure overall team success

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
General Skills:

• 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
• Business Analysis (e.g. gathering user requirements, data analysis)
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing
• Ability to multi-task and liaise directly with Risk Managers, FM Ops and Finance
• Familiarity and demonstrates confidence working in an agile development environment
• Self-starter who can manage timelines, drive/facilitate requirements and communicate with Developers

Technical Knowledge

• MDX experience or SQL is a plus
• Any experience with technologies such as PostgreSQL, Kafka or ElasticSearch is a plus.
• Python is a plus.
• Development experience on functional language, such as Haskell, is a plus.

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.

Preferred Domain Knowledge

• Working experience in delivering change in Market Risk

Other Preferred Skills

• Understanding of Financial Markets business

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.
Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Market Risk Calculations, Processes & Reporting
• Quantitative models & pricing
• Project Delivery
• Analytical and writing skills
• Python Programming

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.

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• 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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