CCR Business Analyst

at  Standard Chartered

JOB SUMMARY

The Risk and Compliance Change team require a strong Business Analyst with background in Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) and exposure modelling to work on several initiatives as part of the strategic Traded Credit Risk Programme. These critical projects focus on business and technology deliverables including system upgrades and migrations, risk data and control implementations.
In this function, the lead is responsible for high quality analytics requirements produced by the team, testing, training, and user support for various projects focused on Traded Credit Risk.
The successful candidate will be an experienced Business Analyst with a focus on CCR or CVA.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 8+ years in delivering change in Credit Risk in Business Analyst role.
• In depth CCR knowledge.
• Hands-on experience in Business Analysis (e.g. gathering user requirements, data analysis).
• Previous experience in Coordinate User Acceptance Testing.
• Ability to multi-task and liaise directly with Senior Stakeholders, Risk Managers, FM Ops and Finance.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Ability to assess strategic priorities and focus on detailed aspects of a function in order to drive effective delivery.
• Ability to navigate within the approved parameters to work out a sensible and practical recommendation or decision.
• Familiarity and demonstrates confidence working in an agile development environment.
• Self-starter who can manage timelines, drive/facilitate requirements and communicate with Developers.
• Understanding of Financial Markets business would be an advantageous.
• Any experience with technologies such as ActivePivot, PostgreSQL, Kafka or ElasticSearch is a plus.
• Oracle PL/SQL development background, SQL Tuning is a plus
• Scripting programming in Linux shell, Python is a plus.
• Development experience on functional language, such as Haskell, is a plus.

• Work with relevant stakeholders including Traded Risk Management, Counterparty Credit Risk Modelling and FO teams to enhance our a new risk management system and CCR models.
• Become a key person for the implementations of the enhanced risk system and models (simulation, derivatives pricing, IM and VM collateral modelling and aggregation).
• Work with ITO team on the ActivePivot (OLAP) platform to deliver the relevant components for the reporting solution including all risk measures and limit management components and incremental impact of new deals using Monte Carlo simulation.
• Be an interface between Risk managers, Counterparty Credit Risk Modelling and FO teams to collate all requirements and ensuring that these are translated into tangible ITO deliveries.
• Writing business requirements documents that fully and clearly cover the user requirements.
• Planning the required testing ensuring traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Undertaking functional testing of the delivered functionality to ensure it meets the requirements, where required documenting issues and managing to resolution.
• Providing expert support to the business during testing cycle (UAT and UVT).
• Providing user training and support for system implementations including performing user verification testing where required.