Job Description

Job: Operations
Primary Location: Asia-Singapore-Singapore
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent
Posting Date: 04/Jul/2022, 12:16:59 AM
Unposting Date: Ongoing


The Role Responsibilities
Business Analytics and Insights (BA&I) is a division within the IBOR transition programme that holds the responsibility to source, validate and provide insights to the Senior Management and enable Regional Representatives (RRs) and Relationship Managers (RMs) to record track remediation progress of all IBOR-related contracts. There are several tools leveraged by the team to gather data, present and report on a periodic manner and requires close collaboration with various technology teams to meet the bank’s regulatory commitments for IBOR. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring data accuracy within the platform with respect to IBOR transition relevant data points for accurate regulatory and internal reporting. Key Responsibilities: Data Strategy, Architecture and Transformation

• Liaise with various business teams such as Financial Markets, Treasury, Lending and Wealth & Retail Banking to source data in weekly, monthly and quarterly fashion.
• Manage and engage key stakeholders across divisions on MI requests around the IBOR transition project
• Perform periodic data quality checks with business ensuring data accuracy.
• Applies data cleansing strategies to enrich the source data for a better analytics and insight for the business and client outreach using analytics tools such as ActivePivot, MicroStrategy and proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R & SQL.
• Collaborates with data and business workstreams to derive the data strategy roadmap.
• Defines data requirements and performs data inventory analysis to qualify right data sources and attributes
• Define and propose the technology roadmap and ensure deliveries are lined up as per IBOR programme requirements.
• Reporting using relevant and strategic tools for PRA, MAS, HKMA on a periodic basis.
• Escalate in timely fashion to remove roadblocks and ensure delivery as per the agreed timelines.

Risk Management:

• Keeping track of emerging regulatory expectations in terms of IBOR transition and evaluate the present state of infrastructure and processes of the organisation against this. Data Strategy, Architecture and Transformation to derive the data strategy roadmap.
• Defining data requirements and performing data inventory analysis to qualify risk issues in data sources and attribute, raising the risk in the appropriate forums for tracking.
• Assess and evaluate the risks that are related to the project delivery and update the stakeholders with appropriate remediation and mitigation approach.
• Review the technical solutions and deliverables with architects and key technology stakeholders and ensure that the deliverables are adhering to the risk governance rule.

Governance:

• Responsible for delivering ‘effective governance’ within the deliverables and possessing the ability to constructively challenge relevant stakeholders and teams effectively.
• Coordinate with Business and Functional leads and update the programme central team on any key issues and risks.
• Ensure information is correctly communicated and where necessary, issues are escalated to management in a timely manner.
• Share ideas and best practice information with colleagues. Thinks beyond current boundaries of the role and contributes ideas.
• Adherence to policies and control standards, ensuring compliance and operation within risk tolerance and risk appetite.
• Maintain awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Bank operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

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.

Key Stakeholders:

• Executive and Program Director or the IBOR transition team.
• Technology counterparts within Enterprise Data and Data Analytics.
• IBOR Regional Leads / Relationship Managers.
• GB/CB/Lending/CF/Loan Syndication/Agency Business/FM Stream Leads.
• Group and Country Business Heads, COOs, and their representatives.
• IBOR Project Managers supporting the workstreams.
• Functions stakeholders – Legal, Compliance, Operational Risk. Finance, IMO, GLS.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Demonstrates proficiency in scripting with either R or Python, MS Excel and SQL.
• Knowledge of Interest Rate Derivatives and Lending Products.
• Exhibits efficiency and comfort with large and varied datasets.
• Ensures data and reporting needs are well understood and delivered promptly
• Supports the Business Analytics and Insights workstream activities and ensuring required datasets are business-ready
• Decent understanding of banking products and global interest rates
• Raises awareness and understanding of data best practices (within/beyond the bank)
• Maintains a balanced approach in data provisioning and enhancement that aims to maximise ROI, minimize rework, and ensure solutions are built for the long term
• 6 plus years of relevant experience in Banking domain

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Agile Project Management Experience
• Banking products Derivatives and Cash
• Python and R Coding

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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