Sr Manager, Risk Analyst Management Stress Testing(Contract)

Standard Chartered · Banking & Financial Services

Bangalore, India
On-site
Posted today
Finance & Accounting

About the job

Job Summary

The role is responsible for developing and supporting portfolio analytics, stress testing analysis and senior management reporting for the Financial Sponsors and Private Credit portfolios. The role holder will help build analytical capability to assess portfolio risk, emerging vulnerabilities, credit quality, concentrations and scenario impacts across Financial Sponsors, Private Equity and Private Credit exposures.

The successful candidate should bring strong analytical, credit risk and data skills, with experience in portfolio analytics, stress testing, risk appetite reporting or credit risk analysis. The role requires someone who can combine technical analysis with clear management communication, ensuring that outputs are suitable for committees, senior stakeholders and portfolio decision-making.

This is a contract role till December 2027.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

Support the development of enhanced analytics and stress testing capability for Financial Sponsors, Private Equity and Private Credit portfolios.

Help connect BAU risk reporting, risk appetite, portfolio analytics and stress testing into a more integrated view of portfolio risk.

Identify analytical approaches that improve visibility of concentrations, vulnerabilities, credit migration risk and scenario sensitivity.

Support the build-out of repeatable analytical frameworks for senior management and committee reporting.

Business

Develop portfolio analytics to explain exposure movements, concentrations, credit quality trends, rating migration, risk appetite usage and emerging risks.

Support stress testing analysis for Financial Sponsors and Private Credit portfolios, including scenario design input, data preparation, impact analysis and management commentary.

Prepare analytical outputs and commentary for senior stakeholders, committees and risk forums.

Respond to stakeholder queries on portfolio trends, stress testing outputs, risk appetite metrics and analytical findings

Processes

Use Python, Excel and analytical tools to build repeatable analytics and stress testing processes.

Support data preparation, validation, transformation and reconciliation for portfolio analytics and stress testing.

Improve the efficiency and control of recurring analytical processes through automation, documentation and standardised templates.

Work with reporting, data and change teams to embed analytical outputs into regular management reporting.

Risk Management

Analyse portfolio risks across Financial Sponsors, Private Credit and related CIB exposures, including concentration risk, leverage sensitivity, refinancing risk, credit deterioration and sector vulnerability.

Support assessment of forward-looking risks using stress testing, sensitivity analysis and portfolio segmentation.

Apply review and challenge to analytical outputs to ensure results are explainable, robust and aligned to the underlying portfolio profile.

Help translate technical analysis into clear management insight and actionable escalation points.

Governance

Maintain documentation of analytical methodologies, assumptions, data sources, calculations and limitations.

Ensure stress testing and analytical outputs are appropriately controlled, evidenced and suitable for senior management use.

Support governance requirements for committee reporting, audit review, issue resolution and methodology enhancement.

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 Risk Reporting and Portfolio Analytics

Financial Sponsors and Private Credit Risk teams

Stress Testing teams

Risk Appetite teams

CIB Credit

CPM

Risk and CFCC Data Strategy

Risk and CFCC Change

Technology

Group Finance

Country CROs

Skills and Experience

Python and data analytics for risk reporting automation

Stress Testing and Portfolio Analytics

Dashboard design and management reporting visualisation

CIB Credit Risk knowledge

Risk appetite, risk reporting and stress testing integration

Reporting transformation and sustainable BAU delivery under pressure

Financial Sponsor and Private Equity and Leverage Lending

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in quantitative finance, economics, risk management, statistics, mathematics, computer science or related field.

5 to 7 years’ experience in credit risk analytics, portfolio analytics, stress testing, risk appetite reporting, credit risk reporting or related financial institution risk roles.

Strong analytical skills, with ability to interpret portfolio trends, credit quality movements, concentration risk and scenario impacts.

Experience in stress testing, sensitivity analysis, portfolio segmentation or forward-looking credit risk analysis is strongly preferred.

Familiarity with Financial Sponsors, Private Equity, leveraged finance or Private Credit portfolios is advantageous.

Strong Python and Excel capability for analytics, data preparation and automation.

Understanding of key credit risk metrics, including exposure, credit grade, default risk, RWA, ECL, risk appetite and concentration measures.

Ability to produce clear, concise and senior management-ready commentary.

Strong control mindset, with ability to document assumptions, limitations and analytical methodology.

Ability to work under pressure and deliver high-quality outputs for committees and senior stakeholders.

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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