Senior Business Analyst (Tianjin, CN)

<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>Job Summary</b></H2> </div><div><p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Business Analyst Hiring Requirement</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join the Trading Control Technology team, supporting the delivery of strategic platforms and controls across Financial Markets. The successful candidate will translate business priorities into clear, testable requirements; partner with business, operations, product, engineering, architecture and control stakeholders; and help drive simplification, control uplift and delivery execution across trade validation, trade control and exception management.</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>Key Responsibilities</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Partner with Front Office, MO &amp; Operations, Risk, Compliance and Technology stakeholders to understand trading risk control priorities, exception management pain points and control uplift requirements across Financial Markets.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Capture, analyse and document business requirements for trade validation, trade lifecycle controls, exception detection, workflow routing, escalation, remediation and auditability.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Translate control objectives into clear user stories, process flows, data requirements, acceptance criteria and testable control outcomes for engineering delivery teams.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Analyse exception themes, root causes and operational impacts to support prioritisation of control enhancements, automation opportunities and simplification of manual processes.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Define and maintain current-state and target-state process maps covering trade capture, validation, exception queues, resolution ownership, escalation paths and management information.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Work with control owners and technology teams to ensure solutions strengthen risk visibility, prevent control gaps, reduce aged exceptions and improve end-to-end traceability.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Support design of dashboards, operational metrics and control reporting to monitor exception volumes, ageing, breach trends, remediation progress and service effectiveness.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Coordinate business validation, system integration testing and user acceptance testing for trading control and exception management changes, ensuring scenarios reflect real trading and operational risk events.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Prepare business readiness materials, operating model documentation, user guidance and training content to support adoption by Operations, Control and Technology support teams.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Contribute to governance forums, delivery planning and issue resolution by providing clear analysis, decision options, risks, dependencies and progress updates.</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-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Key stakeholders</span></strong><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Markets Technology teams </span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Markets Business Heads, COO &amp; CPOs</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Markets Operations Team</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Markets Architects</span></p> <p><br><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Other Responsibilities</span></strong><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Financial Markets; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); </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-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Software Product Business Knowledge</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Business Analysis</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Requirements Management</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Software Product Design/Architecture</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Product Design</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><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Education</span></strong><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.          </span></p> <p><br><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Technical and Domain Expertise</span></strong><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    8+ years of Business Analysis experience, with substantial exposure to Financial Markets initiatives</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Proven ability to engage business users and stakeholders, and to deliver in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Strong capability to translate business needs into clear functional requirements, user stories, and high-quality documentation.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills, with a structured approach to requirement analysis and solution design.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Solid understanding of Agile principles and delivery processes (e.g. Scrum/Kanban).</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Strong data literacy, including hands-on SQL and experience working with enterprise databases (e.g. PostgreSQL or similar).</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with strong written and spoken English.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Self-driven and accountable, with the ability to work independently and manage priorities effectively.</span></p> <p><br><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Preferred Requirements</span></strong><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Broader Financial Markets domain knowledge across front, middle, and back-office processes.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Experience with DevOps practices, and collaboration in cross-functional product teams.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Cross-functional background in adjacent roles such as development, QA/testing, or product ownership.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Familiarity with process modelling and documentation frameworks (e.g. BPMN, UML).</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Experience working across global teams and multiple time zones.</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•    Relevant certifications (e.g. CFA).</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>