Job Summary
This is a BAU role with a specific responsibility to provide Finance Business Analysis consulting focusing on Product Finance activity primarily to Product Control and Finance Business Users but also to other stakeholders across Finance and Technology.
Key Responsibilities
• Involvement in all stages of change request lifecycle, from Business User request, documenting the impact assessment, consulting with respect to approvals, documenting BRDs and user story, managing and carrying out user acceptance testing and associated documentation
• Consult with Business Users in respect of change requests they wish to raise.
• An overall awareness of all components of the ICON tool infrastructure and SAP Business Objects to facilitate being able to consider impact of change requests on daily BAU activity.
• Document the impact assessment of change requests in a format that is easy for Business Users to understand and sign off for approval.
• Consult with the Product control and Finance stakeholders during the prioritisation and approval process, including Technology and other Business stakeholders.
• Document the BRD and FRD and/or user story to a level of detail that Technology can interpret to configure and develop the required solution.
• Review and carry out UAT on behalf of the Business Users in respect of the configuration and/or development implemented by Technology
• Responsibility for solutions to change requests received from Business Users for SAP components, namely FSDP, FPSL, and associated Reconciliations and Controls.
• Use and maintain the Aspire ICON tool and BoBJ Target Operating Model Confluence site to ensure all document artefacts are relevant and are the latest versions
• Liaise with stakeholders and team members across various locations and time zones including acting as a link between Business user teams, technology partners, and downstream stakeholders in delivering solutions to support Business User change requests
Skills and Experience
• Sound judgement is required in identifying implementation and systems issues and suggesting measures to plug them.
• Judgement and complexity in the job arise when dealing with other stakeholders in the project team. Working with FOT, ITO, GFS and risk functions in a collaborative manner and implementing the appropriate solutions.
• Judgement & complexity arises in interpretation of regulatory matters and how they translate into a computation, systems and reporting solution.
• Development of the Capital and liquidity MIS and reporting
• Development of regional stress testing capabilities
• Development of recovery and resolution capabilities
• Overall success of strategic projects or enhancements
Qualifications
• MBA / CA / CFA / ACCA
• Minimum of 8 years Banking experience (Finance and/or Product control experience and knowledge of Financial Markets Products preferred)
• Project change/business analysis experience (exposure to both tactical and strategic solutions preferred)
• Qualified accountant (CA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent) is preferred.
• Project Management/Agile qualification is preferred.
• Experience in full change programme lifecycle/methodology, from initiation and design to post-implementation
• Detailed understanding of banking IT systems, including trade processing workflows, from trade booking to GL entries is essential
• Strong accounting knowledge of DR/CR entries triggered by the various trade events across products classes (commodities, currencies, credit, rates) is essential
• Able to perform gap analysis, identify and escalate issues and risks to the appropriate parties
• Understanding of Local and IFRS GAAP requirements
• Able to work on multiple work streams in parallel, providing support to other team members when required
• Able to work independently and provide/design solutions to areas identified in business requirements
• Able to obtain buy-in for recommended options from stakeholders
• Strong self-starter with minimal need for guidance/supervision
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.