Sr. Assoc, Business Analyst, WRB Tech (Guangzhou, 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><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to drive change initiatives for our hybrid Structured Products Order Management System (OMS), comprising both vendor and in‑house solutions. In this role, you will work closely with the Product Owner, dealing desk, product team, operations, and technology partners to enhance front‑to‑back workflows, support new product launches, facilitate integrated system migration/platform consolidation, and optimise end‑to‑end processes across the structured products landscape.</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><ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Partner with the Product Owner to gather, analyse, and prioritise requirements for enhancements, new initiatives, and integrated system migrations on the vendor and in‑house Structured Products OMS.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Act as a key liaison between business and technology, ensuring clear communication, shared understanding of requirements, and timely issue resolution.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Translate business needs into well‑defined user stories, functional specifications, and process flows.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Work with the dealing desk, product team, and operations to document and refine front‑to‑back trade flows (from product creation and pricing through order capture to post‑trade processes).</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Analyse current processes and system configurations in the Structured Products OMS; identify gaps, control weaknesses, and improvement opportunities in workflows and controls.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Collaborate with internal technology and external vendor teams on solution design, configuration, customisation, and integration with upstream and downstream systems.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Prepare and maintain core Business Analysis artefacts, including BRDs, FRDs, process maps, data dictionaries, and interface specifications.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Plan and execute testing activities (SIT/UAT), including test scenario and case design, test execution, and defect tracking and resolution.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Support production rollout, data/system migration activities, creation of user training materials, and post–go‑live stabilisation.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Ensure all designs, documentation, and changes comply with internal policies as well as risk and control requirements.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Share subject matter expertise and provide guidance and support to other Business Analysts and project team members as needed.</span></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></b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Regulatory &amp; Business Conduct</strong><strong> </strong></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><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></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><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></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><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></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong> </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Key stakeholders</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Product Owners, for requirements gathering and prioritisation.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Engineering Lead and Domain Tech Lead, for solution design and delivery.</span></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>Skills and Experience</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Requirements Analysis: </strong></span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyse and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.<br></span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><br></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Scrum: </strong></span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Knowledge of the principles, components and features of scrum methodology; ability to apply this methodology to manage software product development processes.<br><br></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Software Change Request Management: </strong></span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Knowledge of, and experience with, managing product change requests from customers, prospective customers, vendors, and internal staff.<br><br></span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Agile Project Management: </strong></span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Knowledge of effective agile project management strategies and tactics and ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.</span></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>Qualifications</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">10yrs+ working experience in IT/ FinTech/ Financial/ Banking industry.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">3-5+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst within<strong> capital markets, investment banking, or wealth management.</strong></span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Strong understanding of structured products (e.g. equity/FX/rates/credit-linked notes, options, exotics) and their end-to-end lifecycle.</span></strong></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Hands-on experience with both vendor and in-house (or similar) structured products platforms/Order Management Systems (OMS) is highly preferred.</span></strong></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Demonstrated track record of delivering front-to-back change across trade capture, pricing, booking, lifecycle events, operations, and reporting.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Proven ability to produce clear, well-structured business requirements, process models, and functional specifications.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Experience in system integration and migration projects, with good knowledge of interfaces and messaging protocols (e.g. APIs, MQ, file-based).</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Practical experience in managing SIT/UAT, including test planning, execution, and defect management using standard test/defect tracking tools.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Certifications: Exposure to Agile/Scrum delivery environments is an advantage; relevant certifications (e.g. CBAP, Agile BA, CFA/FRM fundamentals) are a plus.</span></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>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>