Bangalore Biz Analyst BCBS squadnew

Job Summary

Join Standard Chartered as a Biz Analyst within our BCBS squad, where your role will be central to advancing the bank’s strategic objectives through meticulous data governance and risk oversight. Operating in a vibrant, collaborative environment in our Bangalore office, you will safeguard the integrity and reliability of critical data that supports a variety of business functions.

This position requires a minimum of 6+ years of experience and a comprehensive understanding of our global banking model and risk management principles, ensuring compliance with stringent regulatory standards such as BCBS 239. You will lead efforts to uphold data quality, enhance control mechanisms, and embed risk consciousness across teams.

As a champion of ethical conduct and inclusivity, you will exemplify Standard Chartered’s values while driving initiatives that not only secure regulatory adherence but also promote operational efficiency and sustainable growth.

This is a remarkable opportunity for individuals passionate about leveraging data governance to shape the future of international banking, offering a pathway for professional advancement and meaningful impact within a respected global institution.

Key Responsibilities

You will lead efforts to inspire and motivate your colleagues by embodying Standard Chartered's core values, nurturing a collaborative and risk-aware culture at every organisational level.

Your leadership will involve setting clear, measurable objectives in partnership with risk and control specialists to drive continuous improvement.

Your role will include the proactive identification and comprehensive assessment of data governance risks, applying effective controls to mitigate potential issues while ensuring unwavering compliance with evolving regulatory requirements and internal policies.

Taking charge of governance oversight, you will review and refine the Group’s data governance frameworks, ensuring that they deliver robust control mechanisms aligned with industry best practices and regulatory standards.

A key aspect of your contribution involves upholding the highest ethical standards, leading initiatives that reinforce compliance with BCBS 239 and related regulatory regimes, and fostering a culture where compliance and ethical conduct are central to operations.

You will collaborate closely with a broad range of stakeholders, including Global Business Operations, Global Process Owners, Corporate & Institutional Banking, and various Data teams, to harmonise governance strategies and swiftly resolve data-related issues.

Role Responsibilities

•    Scoping of data quality issues identified through various channels including automated periodic profiling reports, self-identified issues and thematic issues highlighted by stakeholders 
•    Maintain Investigation backlog, plan and prioritise for action based on established prioritisation framework
•    Undertake investigation for prioritised issues allocated to team
•    Conduct root cause analysis of exceptions based on understanding of Group policy requirements, process and procedures and current system functionality
•    Identify high-level corrective options across processes and systems that will resolve/ prevent occurrence of the data quality issues
•    Identify cases requiring data remediation/ data enhancement and handover to remediation team for further action 
•    Track issues for progress and ensure that stakeholders are made aware of current data quality exceptions and their impact
•    Provide periodic updates on investigation backlog and generate data quality metrics
•    Proactive identification of data quality issues arising across client data domains, and risks emanating from them
•    Ensure alignment of assigned work items and activities to the strategic and tactical direction of the Data team
•    Identify opportunities for streamlining investigation activities as well as other components of the exception management process with the objective to improve coverage, efficiency and accuracy
•    Identify external investigation blockers and propose effective solutions 
•    Proactive identification of risks and concerns, including escalation to all relevant stakeholders 
•    Adherence to laws and regulations, internal risk and compliance policies and the Group Code of Conduct
•    Completion of all mandatory risk and compliance training including e-learning within stated timeframes
•    Safeguard all data by ensuring strict adherence to information communication guidelines polices as well as data storage/archival procedures

Core Skills
•    Ability to work effectively as part of a team and individually with minimal supervision
•    Focused, organised, results-oriented and works independently to strict timeframes
•    Interpersonal skills in networking, influencing and decision making
•    Ability to create effective work relationships across business & borders
•    Good presentation and Microsoft Office skills
•    Possess excellent communication, collaboration, presenting and influencing skills both written and verbally
•    Excellent analysis skills with a logical approach to problem solving
•    Advocate of team multi culture and collaborative with commercial and pragmatic approach
•    Ability to understand policy, standards and procedural requirements
•    Ability to create & maintain documentation to a high standard

Desirable / Advantage
•    Strong experience working with data and/or data remediation and reconciliation at multiple level
•    Experience in multiple phases of the project lifecycle, preferably with exposure to business project delivery roles
•    Exposure to a structured development lifecycle and related deliverable and work processes
•    Consultancy background an advantage
•    Knowledge of SCB standard processes, project management, implementation and post implementation processes
•    Past experience in banking / financial institution

Qualifications

•    Background & experience within a Data Governance & Management function specifically in:

•    Data Lineage
•    Data Definitions
•    Data SLA creation and maintenance
•    Data Quality Management
•    Data Governance
•    Operational Risk Management
•    Data change management
•    Data extract management, with emphasis on compliance, data sharing and entitlements model application
•    Reference Data management
•    Metadata Management

•    Experience working in a data management function, with a strong understanding of the risks related to poor data
•    Able to take ownership of issues/tasks and apply data management best practices
•    High level of attention to detail with the ability to identify variances and errors

Skills and Experience

•    MS Excel,MS Access
•    Alteryx, Tableau or any data anlalytical / visualisation tool
•    Data analysis skillset / certifications
•    BCBS 239

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.