Chief Product Owner, Trade Lifecycle and Control - Geylang

Job Summary

The Chief Product Owner is responsible for setting the product vision, operating standards, design principals and mobilisation of Product Owners and scrum teams to deliver against the overall product vision. The chief product owner is responsible to deliver maximum value to the benefit of the end user and ensure business objectives are achieved.

• The Chief Product Owner for Markets Trade Lifecycle is responsible for all deliveries on their product including solution design and delivery ownership to enable Financial Markets Trade Lifecycle Capabilities such as Trade Booking & Amendment, Lifecycle, Trade Control, Bulk Trade Events etc.
• The Chief Product Owner has a role to play in strategic prioritisation decisions ensuring that the most appropriate course of action is taken in line with business outcomes when difficult decisions are required
• The Chief product owner evaluates the work generated by one or more product Scrum teams in order to ensure ‘best in class’ features and functionality of the product
• Take the lead of multiple scrum teams and Product Owners as Chief Product Owner.
• Providing the vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements
• Work closely with key stakeholders in Middle Office/ Trade Control / Global Process Owners & Process Owners, COO, other Chief Product Owners and the business to create and maintain product backlogs according to business value or ROI
• Ensure that the scrum teams always have an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on by ensuring that product backlogs are groomed frequently and prioritised effectively
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
• Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities across multiple products
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Research and analyse market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
• Follow our competitors and emerging technology in the industry
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
• Work closely with the scrum team throughout the development process clarifying requirements and providing design input to ensure goals are achieved.

• 5+ years experience as a product owner or equivalent role in the industry
• Strong knowledge of capital markets products and e2e lifecycle activities and controls
• Strong knowledge of Agile principles and process
• In-depth understanding of industry market conditions and trends
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Successful track record of developing products within deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Creative and innovative thinker

• Products – Foreign Exchange
• Products – Options & Exotic Options
• Products – Interest Rate Options – Caps & Floors
• Products – Commodities (Over the Counter (OTC))
• Products – Credit Derivatives
• Disruptive Innovation
• Internal Controls
• Operational Functions
• Planning: Tactical, Strategic
• Process Improvement
• Risk Management

About Standard Chartered

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

• 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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