Job Description

Product Owner in Financial Markets Operations with responsibility for reconciliations including developing strategic vision and roadmap, solution delivery aligned to business priorities and managing the backlog and cross-functional squads to maximise value aligned to business scorecards and key performance and risk indicators.

Strategy*

• Develop, maintain and communicate the product vision and roadmap with CPOs, other POs, squads and stakeholders aligned to client needs.
• Ensure strategic direction is aligned to the overall business plan, scorecard aligned outcomes and target technology architecture and business operating models.

Business*

Key Product Owner Responsibilities including:

• Delivering their product(s)' contribution to the Business plan and QPR scorecard
• Developing and maintaining the product vision and roadmap with CPOs, other POs, squads and stakeholders
• Continuous Backlog management; expressing Backlog items clearly and in a consumable format
• Accountability for optimising value delivery through continuous improvement, gathering feedback from relevant stakeholders and prioritising their backlog
• Creating transparency around backlog item progress, blockers, impediments, dependencies and product value delivery via metrics
• Presence at all required ceremonies/events to provide early feedback and prioritisation
• Represent assigned squads and manage communication in Refinement forums across progress, Benefits/scorecard tracking and impediment / trade off escalation

Opportunity discovery and lining up work (LuW):

• Take new ideas and business problems from initiation through to prioritisation including business case building, planning across delivery squads and defining trade off decisions to move into execution.
• Lead review on thematic and data-driven opportunities facilitating discovery and analysis across global cross-functional teams to identify and recommend operational process improvements.
• Collaborate with technology, industry and external fintech capabilities to pre-empt disruptive forces and lead experiments with new technologies that may accelerate benefit delivery or offer differentiated capabilities.

People & Talent *

• Working with Scrum Master and squad members to build an empowered, high performing team in a psychologically safe environment

Risk Management*

• Review new processes and procedures resulting from initiative delivery against the Bank's Operational Risk Framework.

• Ensure regular engagement and management of Process Change, Operational and Delivery Risk for their backlog

Governance *

Ensure compliance with required change governance standards through solution and initiative delivery. Adhere to responsibilities of a Product Owner as defined in the investment governance standards. Ensure all artefacts and assurance deliverables are as per the required standards and policies

Regulatory & Business Conduct *

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the

. * 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.

• Lead the [country / business unit / function/[team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders*

• FM COO
• FM Operations
• Technology - FM and Foundation Services
• Support Functions (e.g. Risk, Compliance, Legal)
• CPOs across FM QPR

Other Responsibilities*

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

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Training, licenses, memberships and certifications

Scrum Master, Product Owner certification (or equivalent)

• 5+ years experience and proven knowledge in Banking / Financial markets operational and data. Delivery of technology and business solutions.
• 2+ years in Agile as Product Owner or similar role, strong skills of maintaining and prioritising a backlog.
• Previously defined product requirements and development roadmap based on functional expertise
• Deep understanding of industry trends and client needs, ability to create a value proposition and a squad vision
• Strong prioritization and analytical skills to manage backlog for the squad
• Strong communication skills to synchronize tasks, clarify requirements and delivery expectations with stakeholders
• Experience of design thinking frameworks, HCD
• Demonstrated track record of leading teams to deliver objectives
• Previously coached and mentored team members

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL Skills and Competencies and Proficiency Levels*

• Planning: Tactical, Strategic
• Product Design and Development
• Project Management
• Operational Functions

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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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