Standard Chartered Hiring for Business Analyst, Open Banking at Bengaluru / Bangalore Full Time

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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Role Responsibilities

About the Role
If tackling complex challenges excites you, then join our team where you will get to collaborate and work on solutions across business and functions, to drive transformation and deliver better experiences to our customers. We constantly strive to reduce time-to-market and streamline our processes. We follow agile methodology and work to embed an improvement habit across the bank.
We are looking for a Business Analyst, who will work in close partnership with Product Owners, Business Users and Stakeholders, technology groups, Suppliers and Partners to deliver key franchise wide projects for the successful delivery of the Open Banking Initiatives.
Roles & Responsibilities

• Discover requirements using workshops, interviews and document reviews.
• Document business requirements & conceptualise business processes & workflows.
• Analyse the business requirements and facilitate the design of solutions to meet business requirements.
• Assist in grooming backlogs, user stories and tasks to Software Developers / Vendors to clarify and elaborate on the requirements. Break down user stories dynamically during the sprints and help the team complete the assigned task.
• Review user stories and functional specifications, testing plans and outcomes ensure all relevant scenarios and business requirements are captured and tested.
• Investigate and resolve problems in close collaboration with the system developers and functional/business users.
• Participate in delivery of tasks in initiatives where there are technology and operational deliverables.
• Assess, document and communicate to Stakeholders, end to end process impact and ensure they are understood.
• Identify, manage and resolve matters escalated by vendors, partners and stakeholders relating to the projects, and meeting with Vendors as required.
• Assist in business readiness by providing updates to changes in systems that impacts processes/controls so that the respective functions can ensure the appropriate controls are considered in the updates of Policies and Procedures.
• Ensure that project management tools are appropriately used, updated and user stories, sprint plans, wireframes etc are documented.

Squad, Backlog & People Management

• Build and prioritize Squad backlog in terms of user stories to achieve business goals, continuously keep the backlog up to date.
• Holds regular meetings to update product backlog and ensure requirements are correctly understood.
• Participate in planning of the Squad’s sprint to reaffirm priorities and clarify the requirements.
• Interact with other Squads and hives in synchronization ceremonies to implement cross-squad tasks.
• Lead team through the process of clarifying requirements and delivery expectations with stakeholders.
• Provides input into squad members evaluation and performance review on a monthly basis.
• Working with Hive Lead, dynamically allocates resources within the squad based on (i) squad backlogs and (ii) resource needs.
• Defines set of necessary competences in the squad with Hive Lead / Chapter Lead.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group&rsquos 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 & collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct & compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Hive and squad members and management.
• Group, Region & Country stakeholders at mid & senior level and External partners.

Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for individuals, who are self-driven go getters, has functional and operational expertise and is a eloquent communicator who builds trust-based relationships within the squad and amongst stakeholders. If you possess traits and experience that match most of the below, we&rsquod love to hear from you:

• 8+ years of experience with business knowledge of Open Banking, Payments, Banking systems and related products and processes. Experience in Digital products (mobile and online) or major system migration or business transition is an added advantage.
• 2+ years in working in Agile using its tools with extensive Business Analysis experience, having led the design, solutioning and delivery with demonstrated ability in requirements gathering, scope definition & solutions design.
• Strong Stakeholder Management skills ability to lead others to define requirements and technical solutions that meet end to end stakeholder needs.
• Business Analysis experienced in identifying, analysing and documenting business requirements.
• Able to identify the opportunities, risks and constraints presented by the current and potential technical solutions and business processes and determine the most appropriate solutions to business problems.
• Written & Verbal Communication communicates confidently clearly and effectively when speaking and in writing. Persuasive with details and facts.
• Customer Focus focuses on customers and their needs. Seeks to understand the needs and issues of customers.
• Change and Innovation Looks for new ways to address business issues. Ability to meet the challenge of functioning in an organisation undergoing constant and rapid change.
• Architecture and Information Knowledge and understanding of the organisations product domain, information domain, system architecture, relevant technologies and development process.
• Solutions Delivery and Implementation effectively plan, design, manage, execute and report on testing activities (UAT, Integration testing, Performance & Load testing, Interface testing), using appropriate testing tools and techniques and conforming to agreed standards.
• Business Change Management Defines and manages the process of deploying and integrating IT capabilities and business processes into the organisation in a way that is sensitive to and fully compatible / compliant with business operations.
• Positive and results orientated attitude and ability to effectively multi-task under pressure and in a high paced environment.
• Demonstrate/proven strong attention to detail and a high degree of intellectual curiosity.
• Demonstrate high levels of integrity and professionalism.

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