Job Summary
We are seeking a passionate and innovative developer to join our team, focusing on projects supporting financial reporting, calculating reserves and produce independent valuations. This role is ideal for a candidate with a strong experience in building products with a keen interest in working within the financial domain.
· Work with the business teams to understand their requirements.
· Design and implement solutions to automate and optimize financial reporting
· Design and implement solutions to calculate adjustments and reserves
· Design and implement solutions to calculate independent valuations
· Document the related IT policies and procedures.
· Undertake continuous improvement of the current systems and infrastructure.
· Support Valuation Methodology BAU teams for financial modelling and methodology related tasks, which include but not limited to calibration for IPV, model overlays development and implementation, Prudent Valuation Adjustments.
Key Responsibilities
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 Valuation Methodology 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
· Valuation Methodology team
· Front Office
· Modelling & Analytics Group
· Model Validation group
· Other IT Teams
Role Specific Technical Competencies
· Python (e.g. Django, Flask)
· Javascript (e.g. Angular, React, Node)
· Development Tools (VS Code/PyCharm, Git, ADO etc)
· RDBMS / SQL
· Functional programming (Haskell, Scala etc)
· Software Architecture and Design Concepts
· Financial products, market data, derivatives, pricing models
Our Ideal Candidate
- 5+ years of hands-on experience as a developer preferably in banking/ fintech / financial startups, consulting etc.
- Bachelor of Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- Interest in financial markets/ trading/ deriavtives / risk
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
- Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
What we offer
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 leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months 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.
Recruitment Assessments
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