Senior Business Analyst in Traded Risk - Singapore - Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered

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Singapore

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Description

Job:
Technology

Primary Location:
Asia-Singapore-Singapore

Schedule:
Full-time

Employee Status:
Permanent

Posting Date: 11/May/2023, 1:21:36 AM

Unposting Date: 12/May/2023, 5:59:00 PM

Role Responsibilities

SABRE (Standard Chartered Analytics Booking and Risk Engine) is the bank's strategic platform for Financial Markets Risk and Valuations. It is entirely developed in house at SCB.
It is also the central data repository for all Financial Markets transactions providing information for regulatory and nonregulatory reporting purposes.

The current investments into the platform sponsor the following objectives:

Complete the adoption of SABRE generated risks and valuation for all official purposes across Market Risk, Finance and Operations.
Meet regulatory objectives such as the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), and Trading Book Wind Down (TWD).
Build the core trade Booking and Lifecycling functionality as part of the FM replatforming initiative, aiming at migrating all Transaction Processing onto our strategic inhouse platform, with SABRE at its core.
The main purpose of this Senior Business Analyst role is to support the delivery of capabilities that are to comply with the Trading Book Wind down (TWD) regulatory commitment. The role sits in CIBITO (Corporate and Institutional Banking, Information Technology, and Operations) Risk group and provides close interaction with the Risk Managers, Product and Valuation Control, ITO and Quant teams.

Responsibilities

Gather and document business requirements, write user stories. Review and agree prioritization of the book of work with key business stakeholders.
Organize Sprint planning with the developers.
Identify dependencies and blockers, actively engage with other teams in SABRE, in ITO and beyond to ensure a working solution not a simple technical capability is delivered to users.
Review, test, document the deliveries.
Troubleshoot issues in Risk, P&L (trade replication, market data, analytics, accuracy, timeliness, completeness etc.)
Work actively and creatively with automation testers to ensure all new functionalities are tested and added in test pack with optimal coverage and performance.
Build a strong and effective relationship with the business. Chair project meetings with key risk managers to report on progress and review issues.
Maintain and spread knowledge of the solutions being developed with the business analysts and the broader team.

Key stakeholders

Trading Risk Management
Finance
Market Risk Managers
Credit Risk Managers
Model and Analytical group
Financial Markets Technology

Qualification

10 years of relevant experience in full end to end financial markets IT project delivery life cycle.
A certification in FRM is desirable.
Experience in delivering Trading Risk regulatory commitments.
A Master / bachelor's degree in computer science.

Skills and Competencies

Building strong, effective relationships with both the business and technology teams, across global offices.
Collaborating with all Front Office, Trading Risk Management, FM Operations, Model Analytical Group and control functions to provide timely updates on projects and deliverables.
Drive a focused team dedicated to the enhancement roadmap for the various Bank wide initiatives such as FRTB and TWD.
Be an interface between Risk managers, Counterparty Credit Risk Modelling and FO teams to collate all requirements and ensuring that these are translated into tangible ITO deliveries.
Ability to accurately translate and document business needs into functional requirements and produce high quality documentation.
Leading agile teams including Business Analysts, Developers and Testers and being able to identify business implications of technical design decisions and influence them accordingly.
Financial knowledge encompassing products (flow, options, structured, bonds), pricing models, ES, VaR, PNL Attributions, Limits and Trade life cycle.
A good understanding CCR methodology, DLE, PE and Capital calculation.
Strong technical acumen and Knowledge of Murex or similar systems.
Strong communication and presentation skills with an excellent standard (written and spoken).
Ability to work proactively, independently and displays strong initiative taking attitude.
Pragmatic team player with good attention to detail.
Well versed with Confluence, JIRA, Agile practices and SQL.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

Trading Risk management
SQL
Python
Big data

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