Sr. Associate, Product Owner, WRB Tech (Bangalore East)

Job Summary - Aim of simplifying, standardising, and digitising the Banks processes, to provide a platform for Business growth and to make it easier to get things done. As part of this program, a key workstream is set-up to simplify, consolidate and standardize payments platform and services. - SCBs Retail Banking Payments proposition is a key strategic focus area for WRB. The business objective is to deliver market leading, low-cost Cross-Border payments capabilities to our customers. - This workstream will own end-to-end delivery of developing new platform for Retail Banking payments with a focus on Product Innovation, Digital Journeys with the aim to ensure delivery of capabilities within budgets/timelines while ensuring the best-in-class client experience. - Incumbent should be able to lead product development, enhancement of existing products/features and product management for remittance capabilities in-line with the overall group retail products strategy. - Monetize capabilities and develop analytics to track performance. - ADO Tracking - User Stories Preparation and Refinements. - Agile Methodologies. Key Responsibilities Strategy Product Development - With deep knowledge of agile principles, own the vision of the payment squad and hold accountability for defining and delivering on the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) of that squad including - - Defining end-to-end requirements, making sure they are complete, integral and consistent. - Building and prioritizing Squad backlog in terms of user stories to achieve business goals - Continuously keeping the backlog up to date - Managing relationships and synchronizing Technology colleagues with the Hive Lead, Chapter Lead and other Product Owners in cross-squads responsible for related products to align on roadmaps, priorities and dependencies. - Ensure high degree of stakeholder management to enable all requirements and deliverables are correctly understood, planning is up to date, priorities are reaffirmed, and stakeholder expectations are appropriately managed. Business - Work with markets in scope for commercialization and monetization of the capabilities, helping to increase product adoption. - Develop, deploy and track key success metrics. Processes - Evaluate processes for optimisation of technical stack and automation of back-end processes for end-to-end Straight Through Processes. You will build product as well as prioritise product backlog to achieve business goals and manage stakeholder relationships to align expectations, prioritisation and overall product roadmap. People & - Talent - Proactively provide inputs into squad members evaluation and performance review on a regular basis - Working with Hive Lead, dynamically allocate resources within the squad based on (i) squad backlogs and (ii) resource needs. - Define the set of necessary competences in the squad with Hive Lead / Chapter Lead, highlighting missing competencies and ensuring fulfilling these in timely manner so as to maintain the Hive work on track. Risk Management - Ensures timely, and quality (error free) submissions, as needed for internal governance forums like QPRs / MPRs - Ensures that all the applicable and relevant standards and policies are duly met to ensure there are no regulatory / compliance lapses. - Working with cross functional teams including technology, Legal, Compliance, Fraud, operational risks during each delivery - Ensure, where applicable, adequate and appropriate systems, controls and compliance within area of responsibility. Where appropriate, direct remedial action and/or ensure adequate reporting. - Act as a governance leader promoting the highest levels of ethical conduct. Display exemplary conduct and live by the Groups Values and Code of Conduct - Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role. Governance - Act as a governance leader promoting the highest levels of ethical conduct. Display exemplary conduct and live by the Groups Values and Code of Conduct - Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role. Regulatory & - Business Conduct - Display exemplary conduct and live by the Groups 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. - Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Banks Conduct Principles. - Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. Key stakeholders - Country Product teams, Group Cross-Functional product teams .