Senior BA

Job Description

*About Standard Chartered We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. Its about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good. Were committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.The Role ResponsibilitiesThe successful candidate will be part of the equities and credit technology team building solutions leveraging data, risk/analytics, automation across the full lifecycle of the business. This is a rare opportunity for a self-driven, strong and passionate business analyst to participate and contribute to a paradigm shift. We want People driven by the missionWhat we are looking for in the candidate

• Successfully achieved a Master level in Science/Technology
• Good experience (10 years) with exposure to global/multi country project implementations
  • A few years experience with a management/strategy consulting firm or banking focused on technology solutions implementations
  • Strong experience in project deliveries - Agile/Scrum but also familiar with SDLC and aware of limitations
  • Experience in gathering requirements and writing clear functional specifications / stories and getting them delivered
  • Strong scope and accountability management
  • Strong regular communication / reporting to management on progress
  • Experienced in delivering complex system to system interfaces, workflows, reports managing the full cycle: scope, specs, testing plan, sit, uat, uvt, delivery
  • Experienced in articulating requirements/specs into functional diagrams (data flows, functional and system views).
  • Knowledge of end-to-end change management
  • Experience working across delivery lifecycle
  • Experienced in managing and removing impediments

• Experience working with a globally-distributed team
• Ability to work under ambiguous business environments to provide clarity and facilitate discussions to reach consensus/business decisions
• Strong analytical mindset
• Understanding equities/fixed income/derivatives front-to-back
• Understanding of Financial products equities derivatives, fixed income products (bonds, cds)

Role Responsibilities

• Ensure requirements are specified in a manner suitable for the intended audiences understandable and unambiguous
• Manage requirements from initiation to closure by working with business stakeholders and technology delivery teams
• Identify and engage stakeholders, define Responsible/Accountable/Consulted/Informed (RACI) matrix suitable for the project
• Lead discussion with the project team to identify actions and steps required to achieve business goals and needs
• Develop Business Requirement as JIRA backlog, establish traceability to business vision and objectives, act as primary SME for the project
• Perform Operational Risk Assessment and Business Impact Assessment if required as part of the project deliverable
• Plan, review, and/or deliver training, process updates or communications
• Review FSDs, User Acceptance Test (UAT) test cases; coordinate User Verification Test (UVT), Dress Rehearsal (DR) and Go-Live activities
• Obtain stakeholder buy-in and sign-off on business requirements
• Create sustainable business value through solution proposed and implemented by proactively suggesting process/system improvements
• Adhere to change management standards & procedures, including documenting and capturing all artefacts required by project governance

Our Ideal CandidateTechnology skills

• Ability to learn new tools/systems (risk, processing systems) and understanding technology and functional designs.
• Strong knowledge of PL/SQL and Excel, powerpoint, JIRA, Confluence
• Strong experience in reports design
• Strong knowledge of API based design

Soft skills

• Fluent in English (speaking and writing)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills in all forms (business writing in particular) to all audiences, and the ability to promote change.
• Very good business writing skills
• Outstanding problem-solving skills
• Proactive, self-starter, autonomous Self-motivated, multi-tasking, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, solution oriented with proven results
• Time-aware
• Ability to stay calm & focused when under pressure to deliver a service.
• Willingness & ability to work alongside more experienced team members to obtain knowledge.
• Good team spirit
• Extreme curiousness

Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions. To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages . We welcome conversations on flexible working.,

Keyskills :
test casesfixed incometeam buildingproblem solvingrisk assessmentuser acceptanceoperational riskbusiness writingbusiness analysischange management