AVP - Lead Business Analyst (Malaysia/India)

Pantalent; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank in Kuala Lumpur seeks an experienced professional for data analysis and requirements gathering. The ideal candidate will have over a decade in finance/change management, and expertise in SQL and Agile methodologies. This role emphasizes collaboration with various finance teams to ensure project delivery aligns with business needs while upholding compliance standards.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working options

Generous leave including maternity and sabbatical

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of relevant experience in Product Control / Finance / Change Management roles.
• Good communication and problem-solving skills with proficiency in English.
• Experience delivering through Agile and Waterfall delivery framework.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Finance teams to understand data requirements.
• Perform requirements gathering, creating business artefacts.
• Assist Product Owner throughout the project lifecycle.

Skills

Business analysis

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

SQL

Education

Qualified accountant (CA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent)

Tools

SAP Master Data Governance

SQL

Visio

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Job Summary

• Work collaboratively with various Finance teams at group and regional levels (incl. Product Control, Financial reporting, Finance Operations, Analytics & forecasting, Tax, treasury) and Data SME’s to understand data requirements and articulate them with Business, Technology and Operations.
• Actively engage with stakeholders (Business, Technology, Operations) to deliver appropriate solutions as per planned timelines.
• Perform Requirements gathering, create & own business artefacts (BRD/FSD, Functional, Interface & mapping specifications, Workflows & TOM)
• Assist Product Owner from conception through to post-implementation review, ensuring all necessary governance steps are followed correctly and completely.
• Follow structured approach to project delivery, provide regular risk / issue updates to Scrum Master
• Work closely with delivery teams – Dev, Testing, Release & PMO teams to comply with PMS and SDF
• Ensure key delivery and implementation risks and issues are identified, and support establishment of appropriate mitigation or action plans throughout
• Delivery-focused, committing to specific tasks and ensuring these and the overall projects deadlines are met.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across SDLC and work closely with the PO to drive agile delivery.
• Plan & liaise with the Dev & QA teams by leading & tracking the progress of business requirements towards delivery.
• Perform brainstorming & ideate process improvement steps focusing on efficiency across Project & BAU deliverables.
• This role requires strong business & data analysis skills, sound understanding of Systems Development Life Cycle, Basics of database concepts, SQL, an understanding of functional areas mentioned above to deliver stated business benefits

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Work collaboratively with various Finance teams at group and regional levels (incl. Product Control, Financial reporting, Finance Operations, Analytics & forecasting, Tax, treasury) and Data SME’s to understand data requirements and articulate them with Business, Technology and Operations.

Business

• Being Client Focus: Ensuring the business requirements, and proposed solutions, achieve the customers’ goals

Processes

• Perform Requirements gathering, create & own business artefacts (BRD/FSD, Functional, Interface & mapping specifications, Workflows & TOM)
• Assist Product Owner from conception through to post-implementation review, ensuring all necessary governance steps are followed correctly and completely.
• Follow structured approach to project delivery, provide regular risk / issue updates to Scrum Master
• Collaborate with stakeholders across SDLC and work closely with the PO to drive agile delivery.

People and Talent

• Work closely with delivery teams – Dev, Testing, Release & PMO teams to comply with PMS and SDF
• Plan & liaise with the Dev & QA teams by leading & tracking the progress of business requirements towards delivery.
• Perform brainstorming & ideate process improvement steps focusing on efficiency across Project & BAU deliverables

Risk Management

• Documenting non-compliance areas and ensure appropriate Finance stakeholders sign-off specific reasons for non-compliance (for example, asystem or booking model limitation)
• Keeping project team well informed of the design and execution dependencies within the programme and outside the programme.
• Acting as point of contact for data change related queries

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.
• Lead the teamto achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s 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.
• Serve as a Director of the Board
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Key Stakeholders

• Technology Lead – Data Sourcing & Onboarding
• Workstream team members across Programme (Data, Tools, Core Finance, Local Regulatory, Treasury)
• Data Governance – DQMF, BCBS239
• Finance operation leads
• Product Controllers and Business CFO’s
• Treasury leads
• Information Technology and Operations

Qualification

• 10-15 years of relevant experience in Product Control / Finance / Change Management roles
• Experience with vendor application SAP Master Data Governance
• Exposure to ETL tools, Data Sourcing, Data Quality (Cleansing, aggregation & enrichment), Data modelling & design, Data Transformation & integration
• Good understanding of reference data transformation, critical data elements, DQMF, BCBS239 Data governance
• Data Mining and Analysis experience using SQL
• Thorough understanding of Financial Markets, Retail Banking, Corporate and Institutional Banking, and Transaction Banking business
• Good understanding of Big Data Ecosystems – SAP HANA DB Experience preferred.
• Hands on experience in Source analysis, Data mapping, Reference data management & configuration and Data design Data flow design and System design.
• Walkthrough and presentations to stakeholders. Stakeholder Management.
• System Integration Testing, UAT support.
• Experience analysing data to draw business-relevant conclusions and data visualization techniques and tools
• Good communication and problem-solving skills with a good proficiency in English
• Experience delivering through Agile and Waterfall delivery framework
• Exposure to business architecture principles and methods
• Exposure to data querying languages and tools (for ex. SQL/PLSQL/Hibernate SQL)
• Ability to work proactively, independently when necessary and displays strong initiative.
• Experience in working in multicultural teams
• Understanding of Local and IFRS GAAP requirements
• Qualified accountant (CA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent) is desirable

Skills and Experiences

• Visio
• SQL / PLSQL
• Design & workflow knowledge
• Documentation tools (ADO, Jira, Confluence)
• Action Oriented
• Collaborates
• Customer Focus
• Gives Clarity & Guidance
• Manages Ambiguity
• Develops Talent
• Drives Vision & Purpose
• Nimble Learning
• Decision Quality
• Courage
• Instills Trust
• Strategic Mindset

Technical Competencies: This is a generic competency to evaluate candidate on role-specific technical skills and requirements

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 thingand 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-offincluding 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 workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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.

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.
Candidates must be resident in Malaysia, or have the right to work in Malaysia.