Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Job Role

The successful candidate for this position will play a key role in executing the stress test models in relation to Central and Others (excluding treasury) in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s stress test exercises. He / She will be responsible for maintenance, execution and enhancement of a suite of Central and Others excluding Treasury models - Opex, Tax, Other Banking, OR RWA, Leverage, Bank Levy, et al.

This will include Bank-of-England (BOE), Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP), Resolution Planning, Recovery Planning for the Group.

In addition, he / she should be able to provide valuable inputs to help identify opportunities to improve on stress testing current processes and own quantitative changes and change requests.

• Responsible for the stress testing data sourcing and preparations, methodological calculations including the use of existing infrastructure and technology, producing quantitative charts and packs and other related requirements.
• Deliver a high quality Structured Template Data (STDF) Templates, as per the requirements set out by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) in the Bank of England (BoE) stress test.
• Ensure that the stress testing methods employed are compliant with EST procedures and any deviation is properly documented and approved.
• Ensure compliance with the Operational Risk Framework requirements and that quantitative controls are in place and executed in full.
• Drive improvements in the stress testing computations and automate manual processes for more efficiency and productivity.
• Manage all correspondence via their nominated work stream leads, support functions and stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with governance related aspects of EST production and delivery.

This is a rapidly evolving space so the role holder must be comfortable with ambiguity and change.

Key Responsibilities

The profile requires person should support in Finance data preparation both management and financial view to support to all the Enterprise-wide Stress testing initiatives like implementation of Group Stress Testing Data and Model.

This includes developing and maintaining an efficient and controls design and operation, data management, regulatory compliance and overall documentation. The candidate will be involved in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s stress test exercises such as Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP) and Bank-of-England (BOE).

Finance Data Hub

Finance Hub\xe2\x80\x99s primary responsibilities include Data Sourcing and Maintenance of Finance data. This involves a set of data wrangling activities \xe2\x80\x93 gathering, transforming, mapping, building business views and automation of sourcing processes that would help enrich the quality of data and make it appropriate for the downstream purposes such as analytics, reporting and visualization.

Strategy

• Help to carry out analytics to decipher insights from FPP reports, balance sheets, ensure analytics practice being established and deployed effectively in GBS.
• Work with partner teams to create and build next generation analytics solutions.
• Assess problem statements and propose potential solutions by advocating and enabling data-driven analytics.
• Conduct thorough validation and data quality checks to ensure accurate and value adding solutions being delivered.
• Wider knowledge in Credit Risk, Capital, Liquidity, Financial and Management view of bank.
• Knowledge in Financial systems like, MRC, BPC, Financial Analytics, Aspire and PSGL is desirable.
• Knowledge in SAS, Python, R, Advanced Excel is preferred.

Business

• Work collaboratively with line manager support covering a wide range of stakeholders, across all seniority levels, to address urgent and strategic Finance management needs, conduct analytics and identify drivers of change in stress tests results.
• Experience in handling Queries of regulators such as PRA (Bank of England).
• Work with Hub Model execution teams and onshore stakeholders to ensure accurate results are submitted to regulators and management.
• Coordinate with ERM teams such as Stress Testing, ASPIRE ,Product controls and Finance Modelling to establish how existing results / analytics or processes can be leveraged.

Processes

• Provide expertise in migrating PoC projects to productionise in collaboration with various teams.

People and Talent

• Lead through example and demonstrate the bank\xe2\x80\x99s culture and values.

Risk Management

• Identify, assess, monitor and mitigating risks to the Group relevant to Data Quality.

Governance

• Ensure the adherence to Group BCBS 239 standards when appropriate.
• Provide timely and high-quality responses to both internal and external queries and requests.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s Values and Code of Conduct.
• 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

• CIB, Commercial and Retail model owners
• BVM stress testing
• Enterprise Risk Analytics
• CIB, Commercial and Retail Risk
• Group Internal Audit
• Group Operational Risk
• Technology
• CDO

Other Responsibilities

• Extensive knowledge in SAS, Excel Automation and TABLEAU is an added advantage.
• Strong analytical mindset with excellent analytical, logical, reasoning and problem solving skills.
• Bachelor or Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree with technical degree preferred (Finance, statistics, mathematics, computer science, etc).
• Extensive knowledge in SAS, Excel Automation and TABLEAU is an added advantage.
• Strong analytical mindset with excellent analytical, logical, reasoning and problem solving skills.
• Hands-on experience in handling Finance data and best practices in data management.
• Previous experience on Financial and Management reporting is an added advantage.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills at all levels (i.e. colleagues to senior management) and situations (i.e. one-on-one to presentations).
• Exposure to advanced machine learning methodologies is a plus.
• Self motivated and pro active.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Graduation / BE / B.Tech / MBA / M.Sc Statistics, Chartered Accountant, Post-Graduation in Finance and with relevant 6 years of experience.

General Skill Set

• Experience in team admin tasks / cost controller / project accountant role with familiarity to SCB project management standards / tools would be a distinct advantage.
• Awareness of trading environment, macroeconomic fundamentals, market moves and potential impact on exposures.
• Working knowledge of the Group\xe2\x80\x99s businesses, governance structure and approach to risk management.
• Expertise in programming language is not required but good to have.
• Knowledge of Wholesale and Retail Credit Risk and Stress Testing.
• Working knowledge in MS Excel, SAS, Python, Tableau, R.
• Knowledge about Finance and various business products.
• Excellent communication skills - verbal and written.
• Strong knowledge in Data Analytics.
• Have excellent attention to detail.
• Be able to work in a global team.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Experience in Agile framework.
• Documentation skills.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Financial Analysis
• Stress Testing
• Credit Risk management
• External Reporting
• Effective Communication
• Project Management
• SQL
• Excel
• Data Science

\xc2\xadAbout 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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