Job Summary

This role could be based in China and Malaysia. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

•    The role holder will be part of Wealth Management Core Platform Hive and be accountable for delivery of Wealth Core Platform changes as well as lead/support the achievement of Hive OKRs. As an empowered decision maker, the Product owner will be accountable for maximising the business value of their product.  
•    We are looking for a talented individual who has functional and delivery expertise in front to back trade flow of one or more Investments products with extensive experience in delivering booking and settlement initiatives on core wealth booking platforms. The candidate must possess at least 6 years of experience in Banking / Wealth Management and have strong communication and stakeholder managements skills. Experience in wealth applications and understanding of operational flow of investment products e.g. unit trusts, funds, fixed income, structured notes required,

Key Responsibilities

•    Own the end to product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Wealth Core Platform, aligned to Wealth business priorities and regional market needs 
•    Act as the single accountable owner for Wealth Core Platform market/region outcomes, balancing regulatory compliance, operational stability, and business growth 
•    Define, prioritise, and maintain the Wealth Core Platform backlog to maximise business value, risk reduction, and operational efficiency 
•    Partner closely with Wealth business, Operations, Architecture, and Technology teams to translate requirements into clear, actionable product outcomes 
•    Govern scope, prioritisation, and trade off decisions across markets, product types, and Wealth Core Platform modules 
•    Ensure UTS capabilities support key wealth products (e.g. mutual funds, bonds, structured notes) and associated lifecycle processes 
•    Drive platform standardisation and reuse across regions while accommodating local regulatory and market specific requirements 
•    Provide product leadership throughout delivery, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and acceptance of delivered features 
•    Ensure platform resilience, scalability, and control effectiveness in line with operational risk and regulatory expectations 
•    Own stakeholder communication, including senior management updates on roadmap progress, risks, dependencies, and value delivery 
•    Collaborate with production support and operations teams to ensure smooth BAU handover and ongoing platform stability 
•    Champion continuous improvement, simplification, and automation across Wealth Core Platform processes and integrations

Strategy
•    Scalable core wealth platform, enabling consistent unit trust and investment product servicing across regions while supporting future market expansion 
•    Business growth is enabled through faster, safer product and market onboarding, reducing time to market for new wealth propositions without compromising control or stability 
•    Operational and regulatory risk is systematically reduced through platform standardisation, embedded controls, and reduced reliance on market specific workarounds 
•    Total cost of ownership is optimised by driving reuse, simplification, and convergence of platform capabilities across markets and product types 

•    Wealth operations efficiency is materially improved via streamlined processes, automation, and improved straight through processing across the investment lifecycle 
•    Platform resilience and availability meet enterprise expectations, supporting high volume processing, market specific cut offs, and critical end of day activities 
•    Clear product direction and prioritisation improve delivery confidence, ensuring technology capacity is focused on the highest value business and risk outcomes 
•    Stakeholder trust is strengthened through transparent roadmap governance, predictable delivery, and clear accountability for platform decisions 
•    Wealth platform remains aligned to broader Wealth and Core Banking strategy, integrating effectively with upstream and downstream platforms while avoiding functional duplication 
•    The platform is future ready, able to support evolving product structures, regulatory changes, and digital channel growth without fundamental re architecture

Business
•    Maintain strong stakeholder engagement with WM Business, COO/ Operations, T&I, Risk & Compliance and Group Internal Audit to ensure alignment across stakeholder groups to support the tribe deliverables 
•    Ensure appropriate representation across the stakeholder groups in delivery forums.
•    Escalate appropriately to ensure key stakeholders like Cluster Lead, Hive Lead, Hive Tech Lead are updated and able to intervene as required.

Processes
•    Product strategy and roadmap management – defining, prioritising, and governing the platform roadmap across markets, products, and regulatory obligations 
•    Demand intake and backlog governance – managing demand from business, regulatory, and operational stakeholders and translating it into a prioritised, value driven platform backlog 
•    Delivery and release management – overseeing end to end delivery from requirements through build, testing, release, and BAU handover across platform capabilities 
•    Stakeholder and decision governance – leading structured engagement, decision making, and trade off forums across Business, Operations, Technology, Architecture, and Risk 
•    Platform risk, control, and lifecycle management – ensuring platform stability, resilience, compliance, and continuous improvement across the platform application lifecycle

People & Talent 
•    Demonstrate and act as a role model of the Group’s values and culture in the region 
•    Lead and support a change in mindset, building a culture of client centricity, agility, and accountability through standardised metrics and measurement
•    Set effective metrics and standards, transparently communicating them to squads
•    Ensure squad capacity is reviewed to enable delivery of client outcomes.

Risk Management
•    Risk control and governance: ensuring oversight and driving improvement in the control & resilience agenda.
•    Developing a forward-looking end-to-end view across Wealth Management environment and proactively identifying and escalating issues and sharing themes / lessons learnt.

Governance 
•    Adherence to policies and control standards, ensuring compliance and operation within risk tolerance and risk appetite.
•    Maintain awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Bank operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
•    Responsible for delivering ‘effective governance’ within the deliverables and possessing the ability to constructively challenge relevant stakeholders and teams effectively.
•    Ability and willingness to work through details with relevant control functions in an open and collaborative manner to achieve the desired governance outcome within the bank’s risk appetite.
•    Work with global teams in Risk, Compliance and COO Office to ensure adherence to the Bank’s Risk framework, in the identification, assessment, mitigation, control and monitoring of risk.

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
•    Investment Advisors, Team Heads, Relationship Managers, (Retail)
•    Global WM Product Teams
•    Global and Country Technology teams
•    Product Owners across Digital and Client Journey
•    Country WM Product Heads
•    Group, Regional and Country WM COO team

Qualifications

•    Certified Scrum Product Owner or comparable Product Owner certifications

Skills and Experience

•    Understanding Customer Needs
•    WM Products and Processes
•    Data Architecture
•    Business Process Improvement
•    Agile Project Management

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.