Lead, Stress Testing

Job Description

The role holder will be a part of the new stress testing hub being created in Bangalore. Enterprise stress testing comprises the stress tests required by the Group, regions, country and risk management teams, and other senior stakeholders as required to inform Risk Appetite and the stress tests required by the Bank s regulators.The team has responsibility for the execution of the Bank s stress test exercises internally and to external regulators. It is also the centre of excellence for all strategic changes and operational controls, compliance attestation and policy setting for stress testing in the enterprise. As such, this individual will be working as part of a cohesive strategy and execution function. The team sets and runs the production schedule for stress testing.The intent of the hub is to primarily run central workstream production tasks and sub-tasks during the running of each stress test exercise utilising ITO (Group IT) supported technology and produce management reporting on the same.Finance Data HubFinance Hub s primary responsibilities include Data Sourcing and Maintenance of Finance data. This involves a set of data wrangling activities gathering, transforming, mapping, building business views and automation of sourcing processes that would help enrich the quality of data and make it appropriate for the downstream purposes such as analytics, reporting and visualization. ] Strategy
• Help to ensure appropriate BAU controls being established and deployed effectively in GBS.
• Work with partner teams to create and build next generation data products and analytics solutions
• Assess problem statements & propose potential solutions by advocating and enabling data-driven analytics
• Conduct thorough validation and data quality checks to ensure accurate and value adding solutions being delivered
• Wider knowledge in Financial and Management view of bank
• Knowledge in Financial systems like , MRC , BPC, Financial Analytics, Aspire and PSGL is required
Business
• Work collaboratively with line manager support covering a wide range of stakeholders, across all seniority levels, to address urgent and strategic Finance management needs
• Coordinate with ERM teams such as Stress Testing, ASPIRE ,Product controls and Finance Modelling to establish how existing results/analytics or processes can be leveraged
Processes
• Provide expertise in migrating PoC projects to productionise in collaboration with various teams
People and Talent
• Lead through example and demonstrate the bank s culture and values
Risk Management
• Identify, assess, monitor and mitigating risks to the Group relevant to Data Quality
Governance
• Ensure the adherence to Group BCBS 239 standard when appropriate
• Provide timely and high-quality responses to both internal and external queries and requests.
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
• CIB, Commercial & Retail model owners
• BVM stress testing
• Country Stress testing
• Enterprise Risk Analytics
• CIB, Commercial & Retail Risk
• Group Internal Audit
• Group Operational Risk
• Technology
• CDO
Other Responsibilities (IdealCandidate)
• Bachelor or Master s degree with technical degree preferred (Finance, statistics, mathematics, computer science, etc.)
• Extensive knowledge in SAS, Excel Automation and TABLEAU is an added advantage
• Strong analytical mindset with excellent analytical, logical, reasoning and problem solving skills.
• Hands-on experience in handling Finance data and best practices in data management
• Previous experience on Financial & Management reporting is an added advantage
• Excellent written and oral communication skills at all levels (i.e. colleagues to senior management) and situations (i.e. one-on-one to presentations)
• Exposure to advanced machine learning methodologies is a plus
• Self motivated and pro active
Our Ideal Candidate Qualifications
• Regulatory reporting in the financial services industry
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks and Banking regulations
• Working across geographies and timezones
• Excellent oral, written communication and presentation skills
• Robust skills for qualitative and quantitative analysis e.g. financial and process
• Excellent academic background, preferably with a degree in a quantitative discipline, such as economics, finance, statistics/mathematics, sciences or engineering
• Understanding of SCB s key footprint markets will be added plus the role holder should comply with all mandatory e-learning as prescribed from time to time.
Role Specific Competencies
• Results orientated, with attention to detail
• Excellent inter-personal skills; comfortable in building relationships, with outstanding written and oral communication skills with high competency in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Confident self-motivated person with a high level of drive and ability to operate in a fast-paced environment
• Good problem identification skills coupled with an analytical and pragmatic approach to proposing solutions
• Knowledge of and direct experience in stress testing at a major international bank, could be in a specific workstream such as Finance Data, financial reporting, or at a group level, such as group risk or group finance. This should include Bank of England, HKMA or CCAR.
• Good working knowledge in SAS and Excel (Pivot Tables) to be able to use these on day 1
• Experience with data reporting tools (Tableau, PVT) and the like
• Strong IT skills such as SQL, VBA, Access skills are advantageous
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Keyskills :
stress testdata qualitydata reportingstress testingdata wranglingrisk managementdata managementreporting toolscomputer science