Job Summary

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• 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.

Key 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
• Head, Markets Post Trade Operations Risk and Control

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Global Markets Transformation  Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); 

Our Ideal Candidate

•    Graduate with relevant industry experience in financial markets products/asset classes 
•    5+ years of relevant experience as product owner or in a similar agile product management role , with strong product ownership skills including business analysis , backlog management, sprint planning , user story writing and delivering high-value products/solutions.
•    Strong knowledge of trade lifecycle, settlement, and operational characteristics of the covered asset classes-FX/MM/Derivatives/Fixed Income equities (preferred)
•    Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
•    Ability to work effectively in ambiguous situations and adapt quickly.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Product knowledge  
• Business Analysis 
• Problem solving
• Process improvements 
• Data Analysis 

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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