Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Job Role

The role holder will be a part of the new stress testing hub created in Bangalore.

Enterprise stress testing comprises the stress tests required by the Group, regions, country and risk management teams, and other senior stakeholders as required to inform Risk Appetite and the stress tests required by the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s regulators.

The team has responsibility for the execution of the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s stress test exercises internally and to external regulators. It is also the centre of excellence for all strategic changes and operational controls, compliance attestation and policy setting for stress testing in the enterprise. As such, this individual will be working as part of a cohesive \xe2\x80\x9cstrategy and execution\xe2\x80\x9d function. The team sets and runs the production schedule for stress testing.

The intent of the hub is to primarily run central workstream production tasks and sub-tasks during the running of each stress test exercise utilising ITO (Group IT) supported technology and produce management reporting on the same.

This is a new role to ensure submission of unstructured templates for Group.

Enterprise stress testing comprises the stress tests required by the Prudential Regulation Authority (ICAAP stress test, Bank of England\xe2\x80\x99s annual concurrent stress test, Recovery Plan stress test and Reverse stress test) and the stress tests required by the management and Board to inform Risk Appetite. Country stress tests are performed for regulators like the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

The role would require technical knowledge of data systems, coding in SAS and the Bank of England\xe2\x80\x99s Stress Test Data Framework.

The role reports to the Vice President, Stress Test Data Quality and sits within the Enterprise Stress Testing team in Financial Planning and Analysis, which drives all enterprise stress testing initiatives in collaboration with teams across the Risk Function and in Group Finance, Group Treasury and the business.

The successful candidate for this position will play a key role in supporting the development, maintenance, enhancement and execution of the stress test models in relation to the Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss and Tax Requirements in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s stress test exercises globally.

Key Responsibilities

The role holder will ensure the integrity of stress test data and submit unstructured and structured templates.

Specifically, the key responsibilities would include

• Ensure that the validation and reconciliation of stress test data meets all regulatory requirements.
• Establish and maintain a data ownership and governance framework for the stress test data templates.
• Identify gaps in data quality and collaborate with various stakeholders to resolve them.
• Business problem analysis and cross functional collaborative tech solution design.
• Tableau / Power BI dashboard preparation and knowledge of Dataiku.
• Incorporation of Data Quality and Data Management rules in the system itself with help of EST Data Quality team.
• Documentation of overall development work.

Processes

• Knowledge of creating reports from different data sources in Cloud.
• Working knowledge of Python, SQL Programming and Tableau.
• Adequate understanding of Data ETL Process and perform Data Quality checks
• Knowledge of automation techniques.

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.
• Lead the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment].
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Key Stakeholders

• Stress Testing Team
• Key Risk colleagues
• Business leadership
• Key operations and technology partners / vendors
• Global Process Owner - Stress Testing
• Global Head, Stress Testing and Analytics

Our Ideal Candidate

• Detailed knowledge of and direct experience in assuring stress test data integrity - Bank of England or CCAR. Knowledge of the Bank of England\xe2\x80\x99s Stress Test Data Framework is required.
• Prior experience of conducting a capital stress test involving projections of asset, income, impairments or any other key metric.
• Direct experience in SAS programming and macro-programming on excel using VBA. Knowledge of MS SQL, MS Access, Axiom will be considered a plus.
• Able to work under time pressure and adapt to changing requirements to produce prompt, reliable information to management for decision-making purposes.
• Confident self-motivated person with a high level of drive and ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders.
• Working Knowledge on Finance / Risk Reporting and Dashboard development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong creativity and problem-solving abilities.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Tableau
• Python
• Power BI
• Dataiku
• SQL

\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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