The Role Responsibilities
· Own the end-to-end project delivery of Loan trades front-to-back processing across the regions and entities in scope and ensure scalable, future proof, high quality, and compliant solution deliveries.
· Identify and engage stakeholders, define Responsible/Accountable/Consulted/Informed (RACI) matrix suitable for the project and act as a project subject matter expert
· Ensure effective and timely communication and provision of information to project governance authorities including business sponsors, project team and stakeholder not actively engaged in the project with agreed appropriate frequency and formality.
· Lead project planning and forecasting. Collaborate with the application teams to create and agree the delivery plan.
· Obtain stakeholder agreement on the project plan to confirm scope, schedule, and cost.
· Monitor progress against the baselined delivery plan and manage risk, issues, and dependencies with collaboration with business and technical experts to timely resolve them.
· Organise project meetings with all stakeholders (project team including application teams, business users, architects, and experts) to provide a forum for project updates and to discuss, resolve cross team’s dependencies and other project related critical topics
· Organise project (focused) meetings to brainstorm new requirements, design, and solutions
· Ensure business requirements, functional specifications, and user acceptance criteria are high quality and aligned to business and technology objectives including building future proof scalable solutions
· Proactively suggest process and system improvements to create sustainable business value
· Adhere to change management standards & procedures, including documenting and capturing all artefacts required by project governance
· Ensure operational, business and country risk assessment are documented and attested by respective owners
Strategy
· The strategic FM platform is a component driven functional architecture with an objective to migrate existing banks positions from legacy and obsolete processing platforms with in-house technology solutions to eliminate obsolescence and build future proof solutions to support banks growth objectives including adopting market changes timely, efficiently and with minimal business disruption.
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.
Key stakeholders
· Front Office Desk Heads, Head of Functions, COO, CPO, IT peers, IT management
Our Ideal Candidate
What we are looking for in the candidate
· 5+ years of relevant experience in delivering front-to-back trade processing platform for Financial Markets, Corporate Finance, Lending, Wholesale Banking or Treasury Markets business. Experience with Loans as a financial product is a plus.
· University degree in Science/Technology/Finance
· Relevant experience in delivering Global or Multi country migration projects. Experience in a large-scale transformational programme is a plus
· Strong front-to-back business processes understanding including Front Office’s Trade and Order’s execution, Market and Credit risk generation and reporting, Middle Office trade and cash life cycle management, Operations processing and reporting for confirmations, settlements and client statement, Finance and Product Control accounting and p&l reporting, Compliance controls reporting and Regulatory reporting for both global regimes and local in-country regulations and other ancillary processes supporting trade end-to-end processing and reporting.
· Experience in implementing in-house banking technology solutions primarily in Financial Markets, Lending or Treasury Markets.
· Experience in project management and SDLC methodologies of both Agile and Waterfall and aware of their limitations.
· Experience in business analysis and in reviewing business analyst’s requirements, functional specifications, process flows and other business and technical documentation.
· Experience in managing stakeholder communication including timely project progress reporting to business sponsors and technology management
· Experience managing ambiguity to provide clarity and facilitate discussions to reach consensus on both technology designs and business processes.
· Experience working with a globally distributed team
· Strong leadership accountability
· Strong analytical mindset
Technology skills
· Strong knowledge of software architecture design and principles
· Ability to learn new tools/systems (booking, processing, and reporting) and understand technology and functional designs
· Strong knowledge of mainstream data query languages and comfortable reading code
· Extensive experience with collaboration and productivity tools such Excel, PowerPoint, ADO, Confluence
Soft skills
· Fluent in Business Communication (speaking and writing)
· Excellent communication skills (business writing in particular) to all levels of seniority
· Strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence, negotiate and convince
· Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
· Proactive, self-starter, self-motivated, multi-tasking, solution oriented with proven results
· Ability to work under pressure to deliver services
· Willingness & ability to work alongside more experienced team members to obtain knowledge.
· Good team spirit
· Curious
· University degree in Science/Technology/Finance
· Certifications from the CFA or FRM are good to have
Role Specific Technical Competencies
· Communication Skills, Stakeholder Management
· Business Analysis
· Critical thinking and Problem solving
· Strategic Thinking
· People / Interpersonal skills / Collaboration
· Project & Delivery Management
· Financial Markets Products and Processes (Loans, FXO, Rates, Credit)
· Data – Trade, Cash, Instruments, Market / Static / Reference
· SQL / Data Query / Software Development
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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