Lead Product Engineering

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Job Summary

Looking for a self-driven and passionate individual to join Lending technology team as Business solution manager. This role is for a candidate who bring along in depth business analysis knowledge in the lending domain. You will be working with group of passionate team colleagues responsible for leading the development and implementation of technology solutions for the loans businesses globally within Financial Markets. This is an exciting and rare opportunity to contribute to a paradigm shift in the industry. We are seeking individuals who are mission-driven and eager to make a significant impact.

Lending Domain Knowledge : A good understanding of the Commercial Lending domain, coupled with working knowledge of payments, settlement, reconciliation, and financial / regulatory reporting protocols.

Good understanding of lending lifecycle events, covering bilateral, syndication lending and secondary loan trading.

Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of a recently started platform (LoanIQ, Loan related services and analytics apps) for our Loan desks - trading, syndication, lending / banking books - ensuring it aligns with our Financial Markets and global Credit strategy.

Drive the implementation of LoanIQ as the anchor system for Loan Trading / Booking / Processing and and ability to integrate with other systems / applications.

Drive cross-teams solutions to deliver end-to-end Loan solutions.

Demonstrated experience in delivering technology solutions within a financial services environment.

Meet stakeholders expectations : Traders, Head of businesses, COO, Head of Functions, IT peers, IT management, Analytics teams.

Key Responsibilities

Business

Partner with business and regional teams to ensure technology is fully aligned to their requirements, and that product solution designs meet internal, legal and regulatory requirements.

Rollout of LoanIQ as a strategic lending platform in different markets and deliver change requests raised for live locations.

Processes

Business requirement and functional specification delivery for all project, BAU and strategic initiatives

Work directly with the Product Management role holders in the Business or Function on product design and solution options. Special focus on design, solutioning including Finance and accounting changes.

Collaborate with Development and Production Support teams to define detailed Product solution designs up to specification level.

Manage global rollout implementation business analysis deliverables.

People & Talent

The ability to effectively work together with team colleagues across geographies.

Ability to manage senior stakeholders from operations, product, finance, tax, and business team.

Risk Management

The ability to identify, assess, monitor, control and mitigate potential risks.

Skills and Experience

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

Product Engineering interface for relevant Product Heads, Business COOs, Business Managers and Product Controllers - primarily Global Credit Markets and Financial Markets.

Maintain strong ties with the Heads of the Build and Run team for Commercial Lending / Corporate Finance team to ensure a cross functional, collaborative working approach.

Relevant Product Heads, Business COOs, Business Managers and Product Controllers - primarily Global Credit Market and Financial Markets.

Qualifications

Education

Degree in engineering or equivalent

Training

Loaniq product functionality and

implementation knowledge

Languages

English

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Loaniq knowledge

Loaniq Implementation Experience

Understanding of Financial accounting

SQL Query proficiency

MS office

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.