Job Description

.Role Responsibilities

The People Analytics Data Scientist is an integral member of the wider People Insights and Analytics (PIA) function. The role holder will work closely with stakeholders across PIA and HR, supporting the development and build of advanced analytics solutions which support key business problems and the delivery of actionable insights. The role will require a proactive data scientist who is a self-starter with relevant experience and exceptional technical skills.

Strategy*

• Support the delivery of advanced analytics products, supporting the HR strategy of building a data-led HR function
• Build advanced analytics solutions to key business problems, supporting the evolution of the team from descriptive to prescriptive analysis and models, delivering data-driven insight and best in class products

Business*

• Form and manage ongoing relationships with senior stakeholders across HR and the business
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high level information into details, abstract up from low level information to a general understanding and distinguish user requests from the underlying true business needs
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously, working across multiple stakeholders, locations and delivery cycles
• Work closely with various business teams to seek opportunities for additional data integrations and drive these requests to the right teams for delivery

Processes*

• Develop and implement robust diagnostic, predictive & prescriptive solutions that are repeatable & scalable
• Ensure that the solution produces insights that the business can interpret and execute on
• Communicate with stakeholders to understand the challenges they face and present clear data/visualisations to convince them of clear strategies and solutions
• Translate ambiguous statements into structured problem statements and testable hypotheses
• Apply quantitative analysis, and data mining to extract, capture and understand data to form an opinion and derive relevant insights
• Measure the impact and effectiveness of implemented recommendations

People & Talent *

• Partner with other teams in Standard Chartered to deliver analytics and products, operating within multidisciplinary squads including data scientists, product managers, agile delivery managers and HR business partners and data governance leads.

Governance *

• Understand and adhere to HR data privacy, governance, and control policies particularly in relation to data storage and delivery. Ensure that the work we are doing is in line with our purpose and values

Regulatory & Business Conduct *

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the

. * Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.

• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders*

• HRBPs, Country Heads of HR, HRBAs, Finance, HR COE Leads, GPS Reporting, PIA LT

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Training, licenses, memberships and certifications

• Degree/Master's educated in data science, statistics, mathematics, computer science or related
• 5+ years' experience in delivering data science solutions
• Comprehensive understanding and hands on experience of using statistical techniques and building machine learning models
• Hands on experience in application of advanced analytics methodologies: Clustering, Time Series Forecasting, Multivariate Regression, Logistic Regression, Linear & Non-Linear Optimisation, ML Models like Random Forest, GBM, SVM, XGBoost, etc.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, R, and knowledge of basic libraires for statistical modelling + associated tools such as Jupyter, Git, Pytest
• Natural Language Processing, Topic Modelling
• Dataiku AI & ML Platform experience
• English language proficiency
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to make complex situations simple, understood and embraced
• Ability to explain statistical and machine learning techniques to non-technical stakeholders

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES AND PROFICIENCY LEVELS*

• Data Science
• Python Advanced
• Statistics Advanced
• Natural Language Processing Advanced
• Project Management Advanced
• Problem Solving Advanced
• Communication Skills Advanced

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 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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