Senior Business Analyst, Data Solutions

Job description

Job ID: 40707

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Audit, Accounting & Finance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 30 Sept 2025

Job Summary

The role is accountable for onboarding new data into Finance Data Platform, ensuring accurate CDE mapping, downstream alignment, and proactive data quality remediation.

Working within a Data Product Squad, the analyst will enable sustainable improvements in data quality, reporting accuracy, and regulatory compliance.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Shape and execute data onboarding and remediation strategy within a Data-Product-driven Delivery Framework and Operating Model for Financial Markets, ensuring alignment with enterprise data goals and regulatory priorities.
  
  

• Drive success by embedding onboarding, remediation outcomes into the product roadmap, linking backlog priorities to measurable business value.
  
  

• Partner with Product Owners, Process Owners, Data Stewards, and downstream stakeholders to ensure onboarding and remediation initiatives are designed end-to-end traceability and sustainability.
  
  

• Champion a product mindset, ensuring data onboarding contributes to building resilient, governed, and reusable data assets.
  
  

Business

• Lead the capture and validation of downstream requirements across Finance and Regulatory Reporting

• Define clear success criteria for each onboarding and remediation, tied to outcomes such as reduced manual adjustments, improved reconciliation, and accuracy in major metrics.
  
  

• Translate requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items, ensuring business outcomes remain central to delivery.
  
  

• Engage stakeholders to secure sign-off on CDE definitions, mappings and remediation plans, ensuring accountability and traceability.
  
  

Processes

• Drive data mapping and lineage exercises for new sources, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and end-to-end traceability.
  
  

• Embed validations, reconciliations, and quality checks into onboarding workflows to proactively prevent downstream issues

• Establish repeatable onboarding playbooks that codify best practices for requirements, CDE mapping, testing, and sign-off.
  
  

• Measure onboarding performance with KPIs such as cycle time, % CDE coverage, reduction in downstream breaks, and quality score improvements.
  
  

People & Talent

• Mentor squad members and junior analysts in onboarding discipline, remediation practices, and product ways of working.
  
  

• Enable collaboration across Business, Risk, Functions and Technology, ensuring cross-functional buy-in to onboard outcomes.
  
  

• Promote a product mindset by shifting teams from tactical fixes toward building sustainable, governed data assets

• Facilitate workshops to align stakeholders on onboarding deliverables, ensuring common understanding of CDE ownership and data quality expectations.
  
  

Risk Management

• Be a fearless leader in driving the adoption and associated operational benefits of the strategic technology

• Proactive in seeking regular assurance that the teams are performing to an acceptable risk and control standard.
  
  

• Act quickly and decisively when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and escalated through the relevant committees.
  
  

• Include all necessary internal, legal and regulatory controls through the development of Global Finance requirements.
  
  

• Balance business performance delivery and cost management constraints with risk and control matters to ensure that they do not materially threaten the Group's ability to remain within risk appetite.
  
  

Governance

• Embed the Group's values and code of conduct in the Global Finance Technology teams to ensure adherence with the highest standards of ethics and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations among employees form part of the culture.
  
  

• Ensure compliance with all salient SCB governance frameworks where there are direct touchpoints with them or any subsequent downstream influence from the Global Finance Technology Team.
  
  

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.
  
  

• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
  
  

Key Stakeholders

• Finance and Treasury

• Technology and Operations

• Process Owners

• Product Owners

• Business and Functions Data Stewards

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in GCFO.
  
  Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8+ years of experience in data governance, data quality, or data management within banking or financial services

• Bachelor's degree in Data Management, Information Systems, Finance, or related discipline

• Expertise in financial markets trade lifecycle, CDE governance, and regulatory frameworks

• Proven experience in delivering large scale global solution deployments preferably in the financial services environment

• Proven track record of delivering success from backlog management to measurable outcomes

• Data Quality and Exception Framework

• Data Lifecycle

• Understanding of Bank systems architecture

• Business requirement definition

• Solution design and validation

• End User testing

• FM Markets Knowledge, its products

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Big Data Management and Analytics

• Data Governance and Management

• Financial and Accounting Systems

• Financial Products and Markets

• Change Management

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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