Product Owner

Responsibilities

• Strategy
• Define and own the ISO 20022 product vision, articulating how the programme aligns with the firm's broader market infrastructure and payment strategy.
• Develop product roadmap spanning cross-asset class initiatives, balancing regulatory deadlines and with business value delivery
• Champion cross-asset class convergence opportunities, AI adoption, identifying where shared platforms or common data standards can reduce duplication and increase scalability.
• Business
• Build and maintain strong relationship with front office , operations , Project managers , technology ,finance , legal, compliance and external counterparts including vendors, SWIFT, CCPs, CSDs
• Act as the primary business-facing product owner for initiatives, translating requirements and regulatory mandates into a prioritised, delivery-ready backlog
• Manage competing business priorities across asset classes , applying structured prioritisation framework and working closely with domain specific product owners to drive transparent trade-off decisions.
• Engage senior stakeholders across FX/MM/Derivatives/Fixed Income/Equities to gather requirements, validate prioritised and communicate progress.
• Processes
• Own the product backlog end-to-end-writing well-scoped user stories with clear acceptance criteria, managing refinement sessions and ensuring backlog is always ready for sprint planning.
• Co-ordinate end to end testing and UAT cycles across impacted business lines in collaboration with respective product technology and operations team. Ensure test coverage reflects real-world transaction flows in each asset class
• Lead sprint ceremonies including planning, reviews and retrospectives, act as a primary decision maker for scope and priority within the sprint.
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery practices, including facilitating retrospectives and working with scrum master to remove systemic impediments.
• Maintain programme-level documentation including product brief's, decision logs and ensure Operations readiness (DOI updates, training etc) well before production implementation across the programmes.
• Risk Management
• Proactively identify, assess and escalate programme risks - including regulatory non-compliance risk, delivery risk , Settlement risk and cross-asset dependency risk.
• Assess the impact of scope changes, regulatory updates or market events on delivery timelines and risk profile, communicating changes to the programme stake holders promptly.
• Collaborate with technology, architecture and operations teams to define mitigating controls for technical and operational risks.
• Define and enforce go/no-go criteria for released and cut-over events, ensuring business continuity and operational resilience are maintained throughout the migration.
• Governance
• Represent the product function in programme steering committee , project working groups and relevant regulatory or industry working groups.
• Ensure adherence to the regulatory obligations and mandated timelines, maintaining traceability between regulatory requirements and delivered product features.
• Ensure all product decisions and scope changes are subject to appropriate change controls
• 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.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)
• Key stakeholders
• Programme and Project Managers across initiatives.
• Head, FXMM & Derivatives Post Trade Markets Operations
• Head, Securities Ops, Brokerage & Mkts Recs
• Global Head, FX, Prime & Clearing and Secs Tech
• Global Head, FM Trade Processing & Post Trade Tech

Additional Information

Job Summary This role could be based in Singapore or Malaysia . When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop-down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you only select a country where the role is based - We are seeking an experienced Product owner to join our Markets Transformation team, taking ownership of the ISO 20022 programme delivery and expanding scope across cross-product and cross-asset class initiatives, This is a senior role operating within a large-scale, multi-year regulatory and strategic transformation programme. - The successful candidate will serve as the primary bridge between business stakeholders and technology across Markets, translating requirements into a coherent and prioritised product backlog that drives value to the firm.

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