Associate Manager, Market Risk Business Analyst

Job Description

*About Standard Chartered We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. Its about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good. Were committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.The Role ResponsibilitiesOverview

• RRSD Unit faces the Group Risk Function with a peripheral support to CEO CIB Function. It handles wide spectrum of activities to support the Enterprise Risk Analytics, Traded Risk Management, Risk & Compliance Reporting teams of the Group Risk. The unit is also currently expanding itself to support the CEO CIB Office with Credit Portfolio Management.

Traded Risk Management:

• The Traded Risk Reporting team is responsible for the reporting, analytics and control of Traded Risk for the Financial Market (FM) trading books, across multiple asset classes including FX, Fixed Income, Interest Rates, Money Market, Equities, Credit and related derivatives. The is based in Singapore and the MI thus generated is used across Internal (Board Risk Committee Packs, Management Forums) and External (Regulators) stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate business requirements into Functional Specifications (FSDs), ensuring that developers and testers have a precise understanding of what is to be built and delivered. Review peer FSDs to help improve quality and to share knowledge within the team.
• Working with Project Managers, ensure that questions of scope are addressed constructively and clearly with business stakeholders. Once scope boundaries have been established, ensure that any potential deviation from agreed scope is highlighted to the Project Manager in a timely manner.
• Help ensure requirements documentation and development/delivery take place within the SCB Agile manifesto framework
• In partnership with a dedicated testing team, ensure that all deliveries are fit for purpose, addressing business requirements in a timely, accurate and complete manner, with minimal defects or technical debt. The BA team contributes to test strategy, test plans, expected results (including reference models) and test coordination, as well as participating in the actual testing and diagnosing any defects that arise.
• Train and support business users through acceptance testing, release preparation, go-live and the post-implementation period of each new delivery, assuring a smooth transition into BAU.
• Ensure that knowledge is shared throughout the BA team so that team members can support each other and maintain continuity throughout the project (e.g. covering vacation absence). Senior team members will be asked to mentor less experienced members of the team. Share experience and knowledge across the Market Risk IT team and with the firm-wide BA community.

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

• Group Traded Risk Management
• Market Risk Change
• Market Risk Technology development teams
• Market Risk Reporting Team

Key Measurables:

• Successful delivery strategic change projects within Market Risk ITO
• Proactive issue identification, prioritisation, and resolution
• Strong and positive influence on direction and success of front to back business change agenda
• Clear and appropriate communication with front to back stakeholders
• Low occurrence of operating incidents in production environment due to functional issues
• Efficient BA management of change requests to project scope

Other Responsibilities

• Participate in at least 2 days of volunteering per year.
• Participate in engagement activities of Support services and GBS.
• Be motivated and actively engage in activities like innovation and automation initiatives.
• To hold assigned roles of First Aider / Fire Warden / ADCC as appropriate and discharge the expected responsibilities.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Post Graduation in Finance with relevant 3+ yrs experience in Risk domain
• Risk Certifications from established institutions is recommended
• FRM Certified candidates will be preferred

General Skill Set:

• Strong knowledge in banking products across asset classes (FX/Rates/ Equity/ Credit and Commodities)
• Awareness of trading environment, macroeconomic fundamentals, market moves & potential impact on exposures.
• Excellent communication skills - verbal and written
• Ability to work under pressure
• Have excellent attention to detail
• Be able to work in a global team
• Expertise in programming language is not required but good to have
• Working knowledge in MS Excel, Access
• Knowledge about Market and Credit Risk
• Documentation skills
• Working knowledge of the Group s businesses, governance structure and approach to risk management.
• Experience in team admin tasks/cost controller/project accountant role with familiarity to SCB project management standards / tools would be a distinct advantage
• Experience in Agile framework
• Significant Experience in major regulatory programs in the Risk/Finance, Banking industry BCBS,IMM,CVA etc

Knowledge, skills and experienceRequired:

• In-depth Market Risk knowledge covering historical simulation, VaR, ES, sensitivity analysis, stress testing and risk explain. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate knowledge across multiple asset classes.
• Experience in regulatory engagement, regulatory reporting and/or addressing regulatory requirements e.g. Basel III, CRD IV, BCBS directives (esp. 239 & 265), FRTB.
• A process-driven and disciplined approach working within the Bank s governance structures and standards to produce high-quality deliverables to the agreed timetable.
• Demonstrable experience of maintaining effective working relationships with business sponsors through the negotiation of scope and competing requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English are essential for this role.
• Project management experience and documentation skills
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence)
• Technical knowledge of SQL, MDX, VBA, Python

Desirable:

• Technical knowledge of Tableau
• Knowledge of ActivePivot or similar BI aggregation tools
• Knowledge of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) testing framework

Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions. To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages . We welcome conversations on flexible working.,

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