Area Product Owner, Platform & Analytics (Manager)

Bank of Singapore opens doors to new opportunities.
At Bank of Singapore, we are constantly on the lookout for exceptional individuals to join our team. We promote a culture of openness, teamwork and fairness. Most importantly, we invest in our people through our programmes that develop them on both professional and personal levels. Besides attractive remuneration packages, we offer non-financial benefits and opportunities to develop your potential within OCBC Group’s global network of subsidiaries and offices. If you have passion, drive and the will to succeed, rise to the challenge today!

• Agile Product Management: Be part of platform and analytics team to drive end-to-end product lifecycle, working closely with cross-functional teams to define product vision, roadmap, prioritization and user stories. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, conduct market research, and identify opportunities for product enhancement.
• Waterfall Project Management: Utilize traditional project management methodologies to plan, execute, and monitor project risk, issues, dependencies related to financial crime compliance (FCC). Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards.
• Data Analytics: Ability to utilize Python and AI/data analytics tools to analyze large datasets or build machine learning / AI models to generate insights and drive business decisions.
• Lead cross-functional teams, including data scientists, engineers, and designers, to deliver high-quality analytics products.
• Effectively elicit business and functional requirements and clearly document them within Jira/Confluence ecosystem
• User Journey & Process Mapping: Map current process, perform pain point analysis and facilitate with process owners to formulate To-Be process and take To-Be process for the development of user-centric digital solutions.
• Design Thinking: Apply design thinking principles to foster innovation and create user-centered solutions. Facilitate workshops and brainstorming sessions to encourage cross-functional collaboration and generate creative ideas and solutions.
• User Adoption & Change Management: Develop user adoption and change management material including user communications and training, stakeholder map to drive user mindset and behavior change as well as drive high user adoption of new solutions so as to deliver expected benefits.
• Work closely with Technology team and external vendors (as required) to jointly deliver the multiple streams of compliance transformation within scope, timeline and budget by prioritizing and managing assigned project resources and work processes.
• Perform system/process change impact/ gap analysis arise from FCC policy and procedure changes.
• Formulate test strategy including test plan and test cases to drive efficient and effective UAT execution with the end-users.

Requirements

• At least 3-5 years of experience working as a Product Owner or similar role in building and operationalization of AI and data analytics (“AIDA”).
• Motivated and self-started individual with a passion to drive change and impact using AI and data analytics (“AIDA”) as well as embedding AIDA in compliance digital platform.
• Have strong analytical skills to quickly understand and break down complex issues and problems to come up with sound and rational judgements and solutions.
• Ability to understand and empathy business needs and work with IT teams to conceptualize human centric solution and translate into functional specification.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Understanding of business processes and the ability to align product development with business objectives.
• Strong data sense, ability to draw insights from data analysis and transformation using data analytics such as Power BI.
• Experience with Project Management or Agile Methodology, writing user stories, prioritizing & refining product backlog.
• Well versed with the following tools: MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Visio, JIRA)
• Certification in Project Management, Scrum Master or Product Owner will be preferred.
• Possess good understanding of AML compliance in financial institutions is preferred but not mandatory.
• Those with experience consulting experience in business / risk change management, product management or process re-engineering will be highly desirable.