Trade Product Owner

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (SINGAPORE) LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank in Singapore seeks a Product Owner to drive the transformation in Trade and deliver high-quality transaction banking products. The role involves managing product development in Trade Finance, leading an agile squad, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Ideal candidates have over 10 years of experience in trade finance and demonstrate strong skills in stakeholder management and Agile methodologies. This position offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working options

Wellbeing support programs

Continuous learning opportunities

Inclusive and diverse work culture

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Trade finance and Risk related experience.
• Deep understanding of Trade Finance products and credit aspects.
• Proficiency in drafting vision statements and user stories.

Responsibilities

• Lead an agile squad for product solutions aligned with vision.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks and Group Policies.
• Manage product development for Trade Finance Platforms.

Skills

Trade finance

Agile methodology

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

JOB SUMMARY

As a Product Owner in TB Trade & Working Capital support the transformation agenda in Trade and deliver best-in-class transaction banking products to meet clients and business needs globally. This role manages the product development for Trade Finance Platforms focussing on credit and risk and looks into ongoing enhancements and development of the platform.

In this role the individual acts as Product Owner, responsible for leading an agile squad to deliver solutions to meet our changing business and client requirements, aligned with product vision and strategy.

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.

Risk Management

• Adherence to all Group Policies and relevant legislation covering credit, operational, reputational risk among others across all asset classes and associated post-trade processes.
• 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, escalat, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Lead the TradeXpress LuW to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles.

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 + years of Trade finance and Risk related experience.
• Good understanding of the product development lifecycle using Agile Methodology and relevant prior experience in drafting vision statements, epics and user stories, use case documents, solution papers, business workflow documents and high-level functional flows.
• Deep understanding of Trade Finance products and a good understanding of the trade credit structures; limit management; related credit systems and risk.
• High integrity and personal drive, with a passion for product, technology and services transformation
• Highly experienced in stakeholder management and working closely with stakeholders including country
• Effective and positive written and verbal communications especially when acting as a liaison between departments, internal employees.
• Comprehensive solution-oriented thinker when dealing with clients, team members, internal functional departments and upper management.

Role specific technical Competencies

• Proficiency in Power-point and Excel
• Analytical thinking and strong presentation skills
• Ability to interact and discuss with Senior Country/business stakeholders
• Basic knowledge of 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.

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