Product Owner (Singapore, Malaysia)
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About the Role
Standard Chartered Bank seeks an experienced Product Owner to lead ISO 20022 programme delivery within Markets Transformation. The role involves defining product vision, managing backlog, and engaging senior stakeholders across FX/MM/Derivatives/Fixed Income/Equities.
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Responsibilities
- Define and own the ISO 20022 product vision, aligning with firm's market infrastructure and payment strategy
- Develop product roadmap spanning cross asset class initiatives, balancing regulatory deadlines and business value
- Build and maintain strong relationships with front office, operations, technology, finance, legal, compliance, and external counterparts
- Act as primary business facing product owner, translating requirements into a prioritised delivery ready backlog
- Manage competing business priorities across asset classes using structured prioritisation framework
- Own product backlog end to end, writing well scoped user stories with clear acceptance criteria
- Coordinate end to end testing and UAT cycles across impacted business lines
- Lead sprint ceremonies including planning, reviews, and retrospectives
- Proactively identify, assess, and escalate programme risks
- Represent product function in programme steering committee and working groups
Requirements
- 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
- Strong product ownership skills including business analysis, backlog management, sprint planning, user story writing
- Strong knowledge of trade lifecycle, settlement, and operational characteristics of FX/MM/Derivatives/Fixed Income/Equities (preferred)
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous situations and adapt quickly
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Job Summary
- This role could be based in Singapore or Malaysia.
- 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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 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.
- 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.
- Engage senior stakeholders across FX/MM/Derivatives/Fixed Income/Equities to gather requirements, validate prioritised and communicate progress.
- 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.
- Coordinate end to end testing and UAT cycles across impacted business lines in collaboration with respective product technology and operations team.
- 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 briefs, decision logs and ensure Operations readiness well before production implementation.
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.
- Our purpose: to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
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