Key Responsibilities
The Business Analyst will assist in delivering this programme by
· Gathering, analysing and documenting requirements and user stories; questioning, challenging and proposing innovative, automated solutions where necessary;
· Building strong, effective relationships with the different business stakeholders at group and country level across the Finance department and Business teams, as well as the technology stakeholders across Finance Technology department;
· Defining and implementing optimised operating model;
· Validating the functionalities to fully meet the requirements based on agreed priority;
· Being Client Focus: Ensuring the business requirements, and proposed solutions, achieve the customers’ goals;
· Being a delivery orientated person, ensuring projects timelines are met, whilst ensuring business benefits are delivered, successful go lives with minimal post go live issues
· Defining the test cases and coordinating testing execution for assigned scope, supporting testing automation when relevant
· Keeping project team well informed of the design and execution dependencies within the programme and outside the programme;
· With assistance from project/ programme management team, the business analyst will own the given change from requirements definition through to successful delivery
Strategy
· The Group Finance and Treasury functions are undertaking a multi-year strategic programme delivering capabilities that will help to transition the Group to a balance-sheet led approach to forecasting, planning and resource management.
· The key elements of the programme are from a balance sheet management & forecasting perspective:
· Establish Integrated Balance Sheet forecast and analytics framework across Finance, Treasury and Liquidity and Group, Segment and Country, with a centralised global system with decentralised use cases and access
· Optimise funding and financial resource allocation across markets utilising advanced Balance Sheet Simulators
· Improve accuracy and timeliness of Balance Sheet and Metric forecasts, leading to more informed decision making and external guidance
Business
· Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates
Processes
· Good understanding of monthly forecasting, budgeting, monthly outlook processes, working closely with Business and FP&A teams.
Our Ideal Candidate
· Bachelor’s degree (Accountancy Preferred)
· Accountancy Qualifications not Essential but Preferred
Must Have
· 7+ years of experience in Balance Sheet Management and/or Forecasting
· Knowledge of banking products and core banking systems
· Ability to work proactively, independently when necessary and displays strong initiative;
· Hands on experience in process optimisation;
· Strong communication and presentation skills (written and spoken);
· Excellent team player.
Preferred
· Exposure to business architecture principles and methods;
· Ability to develop test tools and frameworks;
· Exposure to Agile delivery framework;
· Familiar with issue trackers such as Jira and test management tools;
· Business Analysis, Project, Process improvement, Finance certifications;
· Financial Management and Financial Planning & Analysis tools: SAP Performance and Performance Management, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP S/4HANA
· Data and Analytics tools: SAP Datasphere, SAP Business Technology Platform, SQL, Python;
· Displays personal authority, integrity and ethics
· Experience in working in multicultural teams
Role Specific Technical Competencies
· Trend analysis on drivers, margins and returns.
· Financial Planning & Analysis skills such as budgeting, monthly forecast and
· presentation decks
· Ability to use financial data to perform analysis and provide insights to business and CFOs
· Business Analysis including requirements gathering/elicitation, process mapping and results testing and explain
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.
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