The Role Responsibilities

Business Analyst is responsible for defining scope, analysing and developing process, data and analytical models, eliciting and documenting requirements, identifying solutions and verifying that they meet requirements and supporting development activities.

• Work with the business users/product owner and capture business requirements accurately, comprehensively and without ambiguity, facilitate traceability and in harmony with existing application functionalities
• Requirements Analysis and Design Definition: Needs to have good attention to detail and describe the tasks used to organize requirements, specify and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solution options, and estimate the potential value that could be realized.
• Solution Evaluation: Should be able to describe the tasks used to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution and to recommend improvements on increasing values in the functions.
• Hands-on experience in requirements life cycle management in banking and financial domain. Should be able to manage requirements from inception to implementation.
• Well-versed in elicitation and multi-team collaboration at global level. Highly skilled in defining the scope as well as describing the tasks related to the scope.
• Co-ordinate amongst internal and business stakeholders to review and obtain business signoff for the project cost, plan, specifications etc.
• Ensure gaps in deliverables are identified early and addressed effectively
• Strategy Analysis and Stakeholder Management - Candidate to possess' skills to identify the business needs, address those needs, and align the change strategy with the Bank.
• Work with delivery and project services organizations as well as other technology and vendor organizations in ensuring requirements are transformed into effective solutions with-in cost, schedule and quality - adhering to the bank's standards, guidelines and policies
• Involve in high level technical design / implementation discussions and contribute
• Assist development, testing and support teams by providing them business focus and ensure issues are thoroughly analysed and taken to closure

Risk Management

• Identify and manage risks proactively across the project and utilize the right forums effectively to escalate them as appropriate

Key stakeholders

• Regional and country businesses teams
• Wealth Operation teams
• Technology Heads across domain
• Vendors
• Collaboration partner teams

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelors / Masters in relevant qualification with seven to ten years in the financial services banking industry as an IT business analyst.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Communications and interpersonal skills, including facilitation techniques
• Ability to think and act strategically across a wide range of business situations
• Analytic, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Agile Delivery mechanism
• Familiar with formal development methodologies and testing processes
• Documentation and technical authorship
• Understanding of APIs and platforms

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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.

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