Job Description

Role Responsibilities

• Standard Chartered\'s Financial Markets Supervision & Controls team has defined an exciting strategy and aggressive multi-year product roadmap. The system development team is a specialized team of individuals hired to deliver on front-to-back strategic Front Office supervision and control initiatives for the FM business but potentially other Corporate Institutional Bank (CIB) product segments as well.
• The successful candidate will play a leading role in the implementation of a highly visible strategic programme with the primary responsibilities around delivery of the Supervision Workbench.
• The successful candidate will perform in-depth analysis around key business and operational problems, and opportunity areas, to determine strategic proposals / solutions - focusing on long term efficiency, risk reduction and regulatory compliance. This will also involve establishing the business benefit to CIB from the delivery of internal/external strategic change and define the metrics to appropriately measure success. The candidate will work closely with front office developers, Business Heads and COO, controls functions (Finance, Risk, Ops), Legal and Compliance and Operational Risk.
• The candidate will have a proven track record in the production of quality business analysis artifacts, liaising between business and IT stakeholders to ensure that business requirements are translated into tangible artifacts that can be developed from. The candidate will also 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 background.
• The candidate will work closely with the other team members and senior stakeholders in order to deliver critical strategic solutions whilst collaborating and engaging with Business Stakeholders and Project/Programme management to ensure successful delivery of applications that not only meet the business needs but exceed the business expectation.
• The candidate is expected to work in a dynamic global team with other business analysts, 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 is necessary.

Business

• Understand business requirements and translate into quality technology solutions
• Pro-actively engage, manage and build strong relationships with both business and technology stakeholders
• Take ownership of technology deliveries from high level requirement through development, testing and deployment
• Translate solutions into detailed, unambiguous, business and functional requirements
• Provide on-going support to the technology teams as required e.g. authoring / reviewing test cases, closing out open issues / questions, managing change request process etc.
• Identify risks and issues early, plan mitigating steps and communicate these to stakeholders in a timely manner
• Work closely with business sponsors, project and programme managers to ensure all stakeholders are fully engaged and expectations managed
• Delivery focused, committing to specific tasks and ensuring these and the overall projects deadlines are met

Processes

• Work in a dynamic, Agile work environment

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 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.

Our Ideal Candidate:

• 8+ years of experience working in a Bank or Financial Institution or in Banking Technology.
• Experience and understanding of Front Office Trading and Pricing is a must.
• Experience in Trade Lifecycle, Front-to-Back trade flow.
• Experience of FM and other CIB products, both flow, OTC & Derivatives.
• Experience in Front Office Risk Systems.
• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Ability and experience to take ownership of business requirements and manage them through to delivery.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Knowledge of testing approaches and techniques.
• Ability to accurately translate and document business needs into functional requirements and produce quality documentation.
• Ability to work proactively, independently and display strong initiative.
• Proven ability to work across business streams, exposure to front to back system implementations.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with an excellent standard (written and spoken).
• Technical background would be beneficial.

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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