JOB SUMMARY

TradeXpress is a strategic and transformational re-platforming program for Trade finance which globally covers all Documentary and Open Account Trade Products.

As a member of the TradeXpress team, the Product Owner is responsible for end to end design, build and delivery of Trade Products on TradeXpress.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy*

Awareness and understanding of the Group’s and TB Trade specifically business strategy and model appropriate to the role. Commitment to delivery of TradeXpress as a strategic deliverable for TB Trade.

Business*

Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates. Understanding of the specifics as they relate to TB Trade processes and TradeXpress delivery.

Processes

Review the processes as part of the Build during the CRA approval before the Feature release. Understanding, documenting and discussing with various stakeholders on the process changes in TX and getting the CRA approval.

Risk Management

•    Adherence to all Group Policies and relevant legislation 
•    Commitment and adherence to Group Code of Conduct
•    Ensure product development aligns to internal governance frameworks that sets out the requirements for the design, implementation, and maintenance of data solutions.
•    Where material changes are made to existing solutions, ensure compliance to process change impact assessment and technology change impact assessments are completed.

Governance 
•    Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
•    Willingness to ‘speak up’ in the event of any realized or perceived breach of group conduct rules or laws by colleagues
•    Willingness to work with any local regulators in an open and cooperative manner.

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

• Country Trade Product and Ops
• Trade Product Management team
• Trade Technology team
• Trade GBS/Operations team
• Trade S2B NG team (Customer Channel)
• Trade Product Development team

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10 plus years of work experience in Trade finance products and processes with very good understanding of macro business environment, trends, and competition.
• Experience in large scale transformations/ change management projects preferred.
• Should have experience in ML/AI use cases working with technology for solutions and delivery. Experience with OCR/Data Extraction use cases preferable.
• Must have previous experience as a Product Owner or Business Lead for technology projects.
• Should be able to translate client needs and transition objectives into actionable and process.
• Understanding of the overall digitization tools and technology landscape, current trends and applicability in the business environment.
• Ability to co-relate technology to transition, thereby possessing the ability to sell the concept to internal stakeholders.
• Ability to respond effectively to change, managing work in a fast-paced matrix environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to build and maintain productive lasting relationships, even in difficult situations, with diverse people spanning internal/external organizations.
• Proven ability to take a step back and look at the macro view to connect the dots between requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management skills in engaging senior stakeholders.
• Proven ability to perform under high pressure in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to present to a large audience with comfort.
• Experienced in transitioning from Waterfall to Agile, guiding inexperienced teams as product owner.
• Ability to take initiative and work with minimal management oversight.
• Ability to work with cross functional teams across business and technology.
• Strong skills in conceptual and quantitative problem-solving, aligning a broad range of stakeholders from multiple functions, and executing against a tightly-defined timeline.
• Experience in working with technology project teams, from the business perspective, a significant plus.
• Experience in Agile tools like ADOs, Confluence and JIRA preferred.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Understanding of Trade Finance products.
• Product, technology and services transformation.
• Stakeholder management.
• Agile Working Methodology

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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