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<div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Key Responsibilities</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">To ensure this ongoing programme is a success and that the company objectives are achieved, the Financial Markets (FM) business is looking for an experienced, hands-on candidate to fill the role of Senior Business Analyst. The key responsibilities of the role include:</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Data and data quality are becoming increasingly important to Financial Institutions. Our ability to accurately, successfully, and fully accomplish business initiatives and meet regulatory requirements is becoming more and more dependent on our ability to source, manage and maintain both our data and data quality. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Alveo (formerly known as Asset Control) is the application of choice for the Financial Markets business for market data. The firm has made an ongoing decision that it also wants to consolidate instrument reference and Market Data onto the same platform. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">To ensure this ongoing programme is a success and that the company objectives are achieved, the Financial Markets (FM) business is looking for an experienced, hands-on candidate to fill the role of Lead Business Analyst. The key responsibilities of the role include:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Be part of the Asset Control Business Analyst team, covering across geographies</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Working with senior stakeholders across business and technology to elicit, clarify, translate and simplify data requirements</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Conduct impact analysis on proposed changes and work with data consumers to integrate changes</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Provide business case and insights into opportunities for cost and control improvements related to data provision and consumption</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Work closely with Asset Control product owner and the Lead BA to analyse business requirements– focusing on long term efficiency, risk reduction, regulatory compliance and lowering time-to-market for meeting business initiatives</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Influence solution design support for optimising data provision and consumption</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Communicate in a timely manner to the user community during the implementation of new functionalities</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Support the business users & de team by proposing solution design & assisting in issue analysis & resolution</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Support the transition to BAU teams to ensure operational readiness.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Contribute to establishing data management governance best practices specifically in the Asset Control estate, and more generally across the wider team</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"></H2> </div><div><p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Strategy</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Propose solution design for optimising data provision and consumption</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Work closely with Asset Control product owner to drive strategic solutions / proposals aligned with the product roadmap – focusing on long term efficiency, risk reduction, regulatory compliance and lowering time-to-market for meeting business initiatives</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Business</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Display confidence in interacting with the Front Office desk, Risk and the Operations teams</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Processes</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Lead the squad in the continuous improvement of operational efficiency and effectiveness of the squad’s processes.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Influence and contribute to solution design & evolution of the data platform to meet business needs in a scalable, flexible & sustainable manner.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Understand and proactively adopt the New Ways of Working</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">People & Talent</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Effectively communicate with stakeholders on design proposal.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Risk Management</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks arising from the implementation of new data flows</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Accountable for putting in place appropriate control measures and operating processes to mitigate risks</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Governance</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Ensure that outcomes delivered, including necessary controls are fit for purpose.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Ensure adherence to the Bank’s project and change management governance processes</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"></H2> </div><div><p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Regulatory & Business Conduct</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• 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.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Key stakeholders</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Head, FM Data Operations</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Asset Control Product Owner</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• FM Data Operations team</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• FM Architecture Team</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Product Owners & Change teams across FM, Risk & Finance</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Technology Delivery Squads</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• External Data Vendors</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Skills and Experience</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Financial Markets</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Asset Control or any EDM</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Data Modelling</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• SQL</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Excel</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Qualifications</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Education: Degree in Statistics or Engineering</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Training & Certifications: CFA, FRM</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>About Standard Chartered</b></H2> </div><div><p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Together we:</p> <ul> <li><b>Do the right thing</b> and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do</li> <li><b>Never settle,</b> continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well</li> <li><b>Are better together,</b> we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>What we offer</b></H2> </div><div><p><b>In line with our Fair Pay Charter,</b> we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.</p> <ul> <li><b>Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,</b> with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.</li> <li><b>Time-off</b> 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.</li> <li><b>Flexible working</b> options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.</li> <li><b>Proactive wellbeing support</b> 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</li> <li><b>A continuous learning culture</b> to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.</li> <li><b>Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation,</b> one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.</li> </ul></div></div></div>

Lead Business Analyst, FM Ref. & Market Data (Guangzhou, CN)