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Requisition Number: 58909
Job Location: Guangzhou, CHN
Global Grade: Band 6
Work Type: Hybrid Working
Employment Type: Permanent
Posting Start Date: 04/08/2026
Posting End Date: 01/11/2026
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Job Summary
The Financial Markets Technology function is responsible for the systems development and technology infrastructure which underpin the Bank’s services for Financial Markets clients.
Within the FM technology function, the FMRP programme aims at transitioning the FM trading desks and support functions away from the existing legacy Transaction Processing systems and into the strategic Front to Back FM technology stack. The FM re-platforming programme has started building the strategic technical components for the Transaction Processing functions:
- User Interface for pricing, booking and post-trade events capture,
- External Trading Venues,
- Trade booking API and automated life-cycling engine,
- Trade Data Store and real-time event bus,
- Credit Risk, Market Risk and Valuations platforms,
- Integration/Coordination layer between components and all Operations systems,
- Confirmations Engine,
- Settlements Engine,
- Finance Platform,
- Unified data query API,
- Self-service user reporting portal,
Lead Business Analyst is a hybrid role of both project management, business analysis and testing. You will assist with the execution of the roadmap along the vertical axis of the matrix organization. Your focus will be on overseeing delivery across the F2B Financial Market technology stack. This means you will be facilitating the delivery of features which cut across multiple systems (horizontals) and projects (verticals).
Your key responsibility will be working together with system owners, product owners and squad members of the horizontal functions to deliver fully integrated features across systems and the business analysts assigned to features across the verticals.
This will require a combination of strong project management, business analysis, testing, solution design and problem-solving skills. It’s a role which requires a profile comfortable working with a team of subject matters experts, business analysts, software engineers and testers, and engaging in the design details.
It’s an exciting and challenging role, which will expose you to full end-to-end processes across a financial markets and finance functions.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy
- Execute and deliver the New Ventures roadmap.
- Understand user requirements and study the feasibility.
- Propose solutions that align to the strategic roadmap.
- Translate solutions into detailed, unambiguous, business, and functional requirements.
- Ensure the overall quality of business requirements, functional specifications and other supporting documents meet the bank’s standards.
Business
- Working across asset classes FX, Rates, Credit and Commodities (both structured and flow).
- Building strong, effective relationships with both the business and technology teams, across global offices.
- Collaborating with all FO and control functions to gather requirements, solve business problems by proposing relevant, innovative solutions in consultation with the technology teams.
- Work as part of an agile team including Business Analysts, Developers and Testers.
- Be a creative source of proposals and channelling user aspiration towards sustainable and future proof solutions.
Processes
- Provide support to the on-going build as required e.g., drafting/reviewing of test cases, closing out developers open issues/questions, contributing to solution design etc
- Attend sprint planning meetings for your squad and work proactively with development and test leads.
- Ensure documents such as functional specs support the development of practical technology solutions and suitable test cases.
- Assist the business with UAT, including communication, planning, execution, preparation, and test case preparation
People & Talent
- Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
Risk Management
- Work closely with delivery leads to ensure stakeholders are fully engaged and expectations managed.
- Identify risks and issues early, plan mitigating steps and communicate these to programme managers and business stakeholders in a timely manner
- Cleary document and agree on assumptions, shortfalls and timelines to resolve the known constraints and dependencies.
Governance
- Attending all relevant governance forums:
- Daily Stand-Ups for your Squad
- Sprint Planning and Retrospective for your Squad
- Technical Design Authority Meetings
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.
Key stakeholders
- Business Stakeholders (Pre-Trade Product owners, Post-Trade Product Owners)
- Technical Stakeholders (System Owner Delivery Leads, Business Initiative Delivery Leads)
Other Responsibilities
- Do the right thing: Be brave, be the change; Think client; Live with integrity
- Never Settle: Continuously improve and innovate; Simplify; Learn from your successes and failures
- Better together: See more in others; How can I help? Build for the long term
Skills and Experience
- Project Management
- Business Analysis
- Trade Processing
- Trade Lifecycle
- Financial Product Knowledge
- Agile Methodology
- Logical Data Modelling
- FPML
Qualifications
- 7+ years of relevant experience in full project delivery life cycle, in a front office business analyst capacity
- Solid product knowledge across asset classes encompassing product & trade life cycle (Murex experience is a big plus)
- Excellent understanding of the FO to BO trade flow of financial products, including Middle Office, Operations and Finance activities.
- Ability to accurately translate and document business needs into functional requirements and produce high quality documentation (knowledge of UML, BPML notations are a plus)
- Good understanding of key technology concepts, basics in logical/physical data models, programming and architecture. (Strong technical acumen is a plus)
- Strong communication and presentation skills with excellent written and spoken English
- Ability to work proactively, independently and displays strong initiative
- Pragmatic team player with good attention to detail
- Strong interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Finance, Business, or related field of study
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
What we offer
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 leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months 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.
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