Senior Mgr, Stress Testing

Job ID: 37637

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Audit, Accounting & Finance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 2 Sept 2025

Job Summary

• The profile requires person should support in Finance data preparation both management and financial view to support to all the Enterprise wide Stress testing initiatives like implementation of Group Stress Testing Data & Model.
• This includes developing and maintaining an efficient and controls design and operation, data management, regulatory compliance and overall documentation. The candidate will be involved in the Bank's stress test exercises such as Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP) and Bank-of-England (BOE).

Key Responsibilities

Finance Data Hub

• Finance Hub's primary responsibilities include Data Sourcing and Maintenance of Finance data. This involves a set of data wrangling activities – gathering, transforming, mapping, building business views and automation of sourcing processes that would help enrich the quality of data and make it appropriate for the downstream purposes such as analytics, reporting and visualization.

Strategy

• Help to ensure appropriate BAU controls being established and deployed effectively in GBS.
• Work with partner teams to create and build next generation data products and analytics solutions
• Assess problem statements & propose potential solutions by advocating and enabling data-driven analytics
• Conduct thorough validation and data quality checks to ensure accurate and value adding solutions being delivered
• Wider knowledge in Financial and Management view of bank
• Knowledge in Financial systems like , MRC , BPC, Financial Analytics, Aspire and PSGL is required

Business

• Work collaboratively with line manager support covering a wide range of stakeholders, across all seniority levels, to address urgent and strategic Finance management needs
• Coordinate with ERM teams such as Stress Testing, ASPIRE ,Product controls and Finance Modelling to establish how existing results/analytics or processes can be leveraged

Processes

• Provide expertise in migrating PoC projects to productionise in collaboration with various teams

People & Talent

• Lead through example and demonstrate the bank's culture and values

Risk Management

• Identify, assess, monitor and mitigating risks to the Group relevant to Data Quality

Governance

• Ensure the adherence to Group BCBS 239 standard when appropriate
• Provide timely and high-quality responses to both internal and external queries and requests.

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

• CIB, Commercial & Retail model owners
• BVM stress testing
• Enterprise Risk Analytics
• CIB, Commercial & Retail Risk
• Group Internal Audit
• Group Operational Risk
• Technology
• CDO

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master's degree with technical degree preferred (Finance, statistics, mathematics, computer science, etc.)
• Extensive knowledge in SAS, Excel Automation and TABLEAU is an added advantage
• Strong analytical mindset with excellent analytical, logical, reasoning and problem solving skills.
• Hands-on experience in handling Finance data and best practices in data management
• Previous experience on Financial & Management reporting is an added advantage
• Excellent written and oral communication skills at all levels (i.e. colleagues to senior management) and situations (i.e. one-on-one to presentations)
• Exposure to advanced machine learning methodologies is a plus
• Self motivated and pro active

Skills and Experience

• Strong knowledge in Data Analytics
• Awareness of trading environment, macroeconomic fundamentals, market moves & potential impact on exposures.
• Excellent communication skills - verbal and written
• Ability to work under pressure
• Have excellent attention to detail
• Be able to work in a global team
• Expertise in programming language is not required but good to have
• Working knowledge in MS Excel, SAS
• Knowledge about Finance and various business products
• Documentation skills
• Working knowledge of the Group's businesses, governance structure and approach to risk management.
• Experience in team admin tasks/cost controller/project accountant role with familiarity to SCB project management standards / tools would be a distinct advantage
• Experience in Agile framework

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.