The Role Responsibilities
The Financial Markets (FM) Regulatory Technology team is responsible for managing the delivery required to satisfy various national and cross-territorial FM regulatory obligations, primarily MIFID II/R, EMIR, Dodd Frank, SFTR, HKMA and MAS. These are managed via group-wide programmes, with delivery across multiple teams and locations.
The successful candidate will work as a Business Analyst within the Programme BA team. There is currently a large portfolio of work across regime rewrites and remediation/close out work on existing regimes, in addition to migration of regimes onto the strategic regulatory reporting technology stack.
Strategy
Determine Strategic Solutions / Proposals – focusing on long term efficiency, risk reduction and regulatory compliance, with strategic technology roadmap always in mind, supported by the target operating model and controls
Business
Determine technology changes required across the front to back FM technology stack for new and amended regulations and for remediation of issues with existing regulations
Work closely with Compliance, Regulatory Operations, FM COO and FM Technology teams to agree technology solutions and ensure compliance with local and global data privacy regulations
Articulate business requirements clearly in appropriate tools, ensuring traceability from requirement to delivery
Document functional solution designs of high quality with no ambiguity
Problem solve pro-actively, both independently and by navigating the expertise of a large globally diverse organisation
Processes
Test scoping, definition, execution and tracking through the delivery cycle
Collaboration with users, project team/s, platform teams and vendors to ensure that the requirements are fulfilled by the proposed solution
Adhere to the agile development lifecycle processes, standardised tools and provide suggestions for improvement
Delivery focused, committing to specific tasks and ensuring these and the overall delivery deadlines are met
Use and enhance FM data models to ensure data lineage is comprehensive for reporting data elements
Help define control processes with Regulatory Operations and COO to help ensure continued regulatory compliance
People & Talent
Provide delivery guidance to members in other teams to help achieve business goals
Risk Management
Identify risks & issues and communicate them to the relevant stakeholders in a timely manner – assist with proposing & planning mitigating steps.
Governance
Ensure relevant stakeholders are engaged to define / approve business requirements / solutions and appropriate governance is followed
Support Programme governance and decision making at the Working Groups and Steering Committees
Regulatory & Business Conduct
Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s 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
Regulatory Operations, Compliance, Financial Markets COO, Financial Markets Technology
Our Ideal Candidate
5+ years’ experience in Regulatory reporting (e.g. MiFID, EMIR, DF, MAS, HKMA, SFTR) or Record Keeping.
Solid knowledge in financial markets, FICC financial products and underlying technology.
Solid experience and understanding of Front-to-back system architecture and processes within an Investment Banking or Asset Management environment.
Experience in conceptual, logical, business and domain data models is a plus.
Experience in Agile/Scrum practices with certification a plus.
Good analytical, organization and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to prioritize own workload within a busy environment and meet deadlines
Excellent communication skills, problem solving skills, approachable and good at forming relationships with people of all levels within the business
Role Specific Technical Competencies
Significant recent regulatory regime knowledge and experience in EMIR/Dodd Frank/HKMA/MAS, SFTR or MiFID
Strong background in the FICC product set and trade workflows
Understand standard technology architectures patterns and processes within a sell side Financial Markets institution
Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills
Ability to document business requirements in a clear and unambiguous style
Experience working with structured data models and data lineage
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.