Business and Data Analyst at ICBC Standard Bank Plc, City Of London, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

Business and Data Analyst

About the job

6-month contract

The Risk division encompasses Business Continuity Management, Country Risk, Credit Risk, Market Risk, Operational Risk and Physical Commodities Risk Assurance disciplines.

Risk Change is a department within the Risk division. Its role is to ensure that the Risk division is able to respond quickly to day-to-day market events by ensuring Risk Managers have the processes, systems and data required. The Risk Change team also make a significant contribution to longer term strategic and regulatory change initiatives.

The team’s primary stakeholders are the other departments within the Risk division: Risk Management (Market, Credit and Operational Risk), Methodology, Model Validation, and Reporting, Analysis and Validation (RAV). The Risk Change team also work closely with other departments such as Front Office, Finance, Technology and Operations.

The main purpose of this Business and Data Analyst role is to lead and support the analysis, design and delivery activities required to implement strategic data initiatives, with a particular focus on the Head Office Data Lake programme. The role combines strong business analysis, stakeholder management and hands-on data analysis capabilities to ensure that business requirements are clearly understood, documented and translated into effective data solutions.

The successful candidate will work closely with stakeholders across Risk, Finance, Front Office, Operations, Technology and Head Office teams to analyse business requirements, understand data needs, assess data quality and define target-state processes and reporting requirements. The role requires the ability to bridge the gap between business and technology teams, ensuring alignment between business objectives and data delivery outcomes.

The position provides the opportunity to work across multiple business functions, engage with senior stakeholders, and shape the future data architecture and reporting capabilities of the organisation. The role offers direct exposure to strategic regulatory, risk management, finance and management information initiatives, whilst helping to establish robust data governance and data management practices across the bank.

What you’ll be doing

Data analysis, Business analysis and prototyping

Provide subject matter expertise input into BAU enhancements (e.g. minor enhancements, bug fixes, Audit / Operational Risk RCSA item remediation, new product implementation) and larger change initiatives (e.g. system migrations to assist with Global Markets business growth, regulatory-driven commitments).

Analysis:

• Data analysis and modelling
• Organise and participate in workshops where required.
• Gather, specify and document business ,functional and technical requirements.
• Agree requirements and priorities with stakeholders.
• Ensure issues and conflicts are identified, raised and resolved.

Solution design:

• Design and agree solutions with stakeholders and ICBCS Architecture team to ensure solutions are in line with strategic architecture from a process, system and data perspective.
• Ensure data flows are captured and data standards and controls are met.
• Prototype solutions where required.

Project and stakeholder management

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to elicit, challenge, negotiate and agree business and data requirements across multiple business and technology teams.
• Project planning support, including: Working with Technology on estimating costs and timelines. Supporting preparation of business cases for project funding requests.
• Project execution support, including: Coordination of working groups and workshops, where required. RAID log maintenance.
• Project governance support, including: Coordination and chairing of steering and governance committees. Preparation, syndication and distribution of material to be discussed at committees.

What you’ll need to be successful

We’re looking for the following skills and experience. If you don’t have all of these but think you could be a good fit for the role, get in touch.

Experience required to successfully perform the role:

• A degree or equivalent, further professional qualifications an advantage.
• Experience of working in a regulated environment, ideally Financial Services change-related roles with a focus on Risk.
• Experience in the design and implementation of Risk processes.

Knowledge, technical skills and expertise

• Solid understanding of Risk principles, methodologies, measures, systems and processes. Direct exposure to Credit Risk and/or Market Risk would be beneficial but not essential.
• Strong Data analysis skills e.g. SQL, Python.
• Understanding of the below would be beneficial but not essential:
• Third party vendor systems such as FIS Credit Risk Manager, Moody’s Risk Frontier and Murex.
• Global Markets businesses and products/services.
• Operations processes such as collateral management.
• Regulatory rules pertaining to Risk.
• Background of structured analytical skills.
• Knowledge of emerging markets an advantage.
• Strong stakeholder interaction and project management skills (across both waterfall and agile methodologies).
• Strong documentation and MS Office skills.

Why should you join us?

ICBC Standard Bank Plc (ICBCS) is a leading financial markets and commodities bank, driven to deliver the right outcomes for our stakeholders, clients, counterparties and markets. We benefit from a unique Chinese and African parentage and an unrivalled global network and expertise. We’re headquartered in London, with operations in Shanghai, Singapore and New York.

We’re a diverse and close-knit global team. We put people first, giving talented, self-driven professionals the flexibility, rewards and freedom to grow their expertise and realise their potential.

Our vison statement, “Be Yourself, Succeed Together” underpins our drive for an open and transparent culture which values difference, enabling everyone to thrive whilst being themselves. We have an active E, D&I forum and we’re growing other employee network groups, including for women and neurodiversity.

We’re committed to the principle of equal opportunities. All applicants will be treated equally and will be considered on their merits and skills without discrimination.

If you’re excited about becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!

ICBCS has appointed Robert Walters Outsourcing (RWO) to manage its recruitment process and Preferred Supplier List (PSL). Unsolicited CVs sent directly to ICBCS or its staff from non-PSL agencies will not be accepted and no fees will be paid for such submissions.