Job Description

Job Summary
The FFG Organisation Design squad are expanding to hire a high calibre HR Business Analyst to join the bank's flagship programme supporting strategic organisation design change within Technology and Operations. The Fit for Growth (FFG) programme is designed to build efficiency, effectiveness and opportunities across the organisation by streamlining the way our organisation is structured, the tools and platforms we leverage, ensuring our processes are efficient and adaptable whilst simplifying our vendor and supplier landscape.
The Business Analyst will work as an integral part of the FFG OD squad within HR and closely with the Solution Architect to ensure Organisation design principles and strategy are effectively solutioned into tangible outcomes for the stakeholder groups to drive the business forward. They will design, align and execute solutions for organisation change that will drive the business forward, working across a complex set of requirements and diverse stakeholder groups.
Key Responsibilities

• Developing the requirements and solution stories for MT-1s and ensuring they build together into a structured functional design, leveraging the OD team, existing principles and new ways of working.
• Solutioning options and ways forward, leveraging data to ensure proposals are tested against existing opportunities and balanced to reflect how they can impact the function.
• Calling out risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, elevating challenged early to ensure mitigation can be put in place.
• Building the link with the various control towers and sharing insight and direction as required.
• Manage common/conflicting requirements across stakeholders to drive at a common ground.
• Align with the existing headcount planning processes, linking with new tooling (SAC), process alignment and owners to ensure ongoing cohesion with the evolving landscape.
• Be able to confidently navigate the HR structures as well as the customer/stakeholder groups to achieve the strategic objectives.
• Navigate with Bank tools e.g. Clarity, SAGE, etc. to extract data and perform data analysis for reporting on benefits delivery, spending etc.
• Support the development of FFG OD Business Case and quarterly review meetings with FFG Control Tower
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Skills and Experience

• 6+ years' experience as a Business Analyst, ideally within global transformation programmes.
• Knowledge and expertise of HR as a domain, ideally understanding of generalist and specialist delivery.
• Prior experience of tools such as Clarity, ADO and SAGE.
• Prior experience of working across a global team, with multiple stakeholders in different locations and across a diverse stakeholder group.
• Proven track record of delivering design/solutions as part of global transformation programmes
• Exceptional communication skills, along with strong stakeholder management ability in handling wide ranging and senior stakeholders (across segments/product areas)
• Proven ability to perform under a high pressure and dynamic environment
• Expertise in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Excellent written & oral communication skills
• Ability to work independently to tight deadlines
• Ability to build effective working relationships across all levels of a diverse, global organisation.

Added Advantage

• Knowledge of banking services
• Domain knowledge of HR functions and CoEs
• Analytical thinking and strong presentation skills
• Addressing Frontline Needs - Products and Processes
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word
• Knowledge of Agile Methodology and Tools

Key stakeholders

• Business Planning Managers
• HR Business Partners
• Finance Business Partners
• FFG Control Tower
• T&O FFG Central Team
• TTO MT-1
• TTO COO
• TTO GHoHR
• HR CoEs

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.

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