Role Responsibilities
Job Summary
Counterparty Credit Risk Business Analyst for driving the various Sales Efficiency projects with the goal to achieve the SCB Group’s RoTE targets.
Responsibilities
The FM CCR BA Team requires a Senior Business Analyst to lead a number of initiatives as part of the Sales Efficiency Program. The deliverable will incorporate business and technology deliverables including system upgrades, business workflows and migrations, risk data and control implementations. In this function, the lead is responsible for high quality analytics requirements produced by the team, definition of target operating model, testing, training, and user support for various projects focused on Traded Credit Risk / Sales Efficiency.
· The successful candidate will play a leading role in the delivery of multiple highly visible strategic Credit Risk/FO programmes with the primary responsibilities of a Lead Product Owner and/or leading Scrum team(s).
· The candidate will be responsible in driving Credit Risk solutions to support key Finance Market business enablement including onboarding new products, risk measures/model enhancements, improving Credit Risk management workflow etc.
· The candidate will be a natural leader and mentor with a driven yet pragmatic, delivery focused mindset and a desire to deliver constant business value through the effective and innovative use of technology.
· The candidate will be expected to take ownership, responsibility and accountability for critical deliveries. In addition, the successful candidate will have come from a mature and demonstrable Agile and Business Analysis background and be comfortable dealing with the resistance that comes with change.
· The candidate will work closely with the other team members and senior stakeholders to design and implement critical strategic solutions whilst collaborating and engaging with Business Stakeholders to deliver to exact requirements. The candidate is expected to work in a dynamic global team with business analysts, developers, project managers, business stakeholders and other technical experts across multiple locations while leading and helping to lead and build the local development team with the expectation that travel may be required.
· Manage requirements across multiple workstreams through Agile development process.
· Work with Development teams to onboard business requirements to technical solutions including all business workflows enabling the Credit Risk management by the TRMs /enhancing Sales efficiency for the FOs.
· Bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technology partners by providing clear business requirements and defining clear acceptance criteria
· Identify gaps thorough stakeholder interviews and data analysis
· Undertake functional testing to ensure quality of delivery before it is passed on to the stakeholders for UAT.
· Agile planning of deliveries and staying on the top of the delivery cadence throughout the requirement lifecycle(inception to Go Live).
· Able to identify and raise risks and issues if project milestones are at risk.
· Decommission legacy systems and transition users to the strategic platforms
· Providing user training and support where required.
Key Responsibilities
· The candidate will be required to work closely with the Business Stakeholders (including senior management), Development Manager, Project Manager, Business Analyst, and a team of developers/testers.
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.
· Lead the [FM IT CCIB Team] 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.] *
· Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key stakeholders
· Traded Risk Managers, Risk teams, IT partners, Front Office
Our Ideal Candidate
· 10 years of experience in delivering change in Credit Risk.
· Strong understanding of Counterparty Credit Risk and Financial Markets.
· Must have had strong experience in Business Analysis and Project Management.
· Strong experience in implementing projects using Agile methodology
· Experienced in data visualization
· Domain knowledge on financial instruments and derivatives, trading and risk management, excess management processes and credit risk methodologies.
· Strong understanding of credit risk measures, risk analysis and reporting.
· Strong written and oral communication skills
· Ability to be organised and multi-task on different requirements across various stakeholders, and to work independently and under pressure
· Cultural sensitivity and awareness to work with a range of people from diverse background and geographies
General Skills:
· Business Analysis (e.g. gathering user requirements, data analysis)
· Coordinate User Acceptance Testing
· Ability to multi-task and liaise directly with Risk Managers, IT partners and Front Office members.
· Familiarity and demonstrates confidence working in an agile development environment
· Self-starter who can manage timelines, drive/facilitate requirements and communicate with Developers
· Demonstrable strong experience of Agile
· Stakeholder Management
· Possesses conflict resolution
· Focuses on the scrum value of openness
· Negotiation & Communication Skills
Technical Knowledge
· Spearheading working groups with business stakeholders to gather requirements and formalize signoffs.
· Meticulous attention to detail and strong focus on clear and requirements documentation.
· Orchestrating the delivery of Credit Risk projects and working closely delivery teams including senior management, Development Manager, Project Manager, and a team of developers.
· Analyze problems raised in software development or production environments and provide timely solutions.
· Provide leadership to junior Business Analysts and scrum teams.
· Knowledge of open source solutions and trending technologies
· Good experience of delivering software based on user feedback and UI/UX.
· Deliver quality software in a time following Agile methodology.
· Knowledge of other Agile approaches like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.
· Expert level knowledge of the Agile methodology and frameworks like DAD, SAFe, etc.
· Understand the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
· Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, user stories
· Needs to be an expert in estimation and planning
· Understanding of the continuous integration and automated testing
· Should have knowledge about Agile techniques like: CI/CD, TDD, BDD, Pairing, Automated Testing
· Advanced experience of ADO and Confluence
· Practitioner level Agile certifications, e.g. PMI-ACP/CSM/CSP, ICP-ACC, SAFe-SPC, etc
Role Specific Technical Competencies
· Kafka
· Agile
· Python
· SQL / Postgres
· Microservices
About Standard Chartered
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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
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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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