Area Product Owner

**Area Product Owner - Equities & Fixed Income (AVP)** **-** **(**240001ON**)**

**Description**

**General description**

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Start your career with bank of Singapore as an area product owner - equities & fixed income

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 programs 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

Platform and transformation (“P&T”) is the team responsible under BOS global coo (“GCOO”) to build the Wealth Management platform of the future across all offerings, all teams, and all locations. The team is responsible for strategic initiatives including building channels, wealth & execution platforms as well as regulatory and risk transformation. The team is also in charge of financial markets and client data as well as the agile practice at BOS.

Reporting to the product owner - equities & fixed income, the area product owner will work and support the product owner responsible for the delivery of best-in-class execution systems to our clients and front office for equities & fixed income trading and execution. The systems are used for execution of equities and fixed income orders.

The key responsibilities will include:
**MAIN DUTIES**

**Role and Responsibilities**
- The APO supports the PO in defining the strategic product vision for equities & fixed income order management and execution journeys with customer experience/journey at the core of the trading design and priorities.
- Maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the squads while maintaining the conceptual integrity of the features/components in full alignment with business stakeholders across businesses, markets, segments and locations.
- Assisting in the gathering and analysis of end user requirements from order placement to market execution and performing functional analyses on trading platform requirements.
- Areas required to cover includes pre-trade, order taking and order entry blotters, order routing and execution, order confirmation, reconciliation and settlement together with various stakeholders.
- Define user test cases, managing user testing as well as system training and rollout planning.
- Work in an Agile squad comprising of Business and Technology partners to drive timely and quality delivery against the Product backlog.
- Support the definition of acceptance criteria for user stories and implement effective testing practices before rolling our new features & enhancements.
- Track and report User engagement, adoption metrics, and develop plans for driving User Satisfaction
- Together with PO, pro-actively seek feedback from internal and external customers to anticipate and understand needs and trends. Look to optimise the experience of our clients and our client’ journeys.
- Proactively contribute to the good cooperation and working dynamics being a living example of OCBC and BOS core values.

**Qualifications**

**Work experience, skills, and education requirements**
- A good degree and/or master’s degree in finance, engineering, computer science or technology
- 5-8 years minimum of strong experience in change/project management, delivering complex, cross-functional projects, in banking & capital markets
- Strong understanding in listed equities offerings in key Asian/EU/us exchanges and fixed income products including callable/putable/variable rate/cocos, etc.
- Experience in driving changes with agile methodology.
- Ability to co-ordinate with stakeholders across functions and teams and manage complex interactions.
- Strong communication skills, logical thinking and strong intellectual curiosity and desire to improve how things are done.
- Strong communication skills, written and oral.
- Ability to lead and influence agile delivery teams comprising business analysts, tech analysts, and developers.
- Proficiency with MS office toolset, Jira, data analysis toolset.
- Relevant agile certifications or qualification would be advantageous.

**Primary Location**: Singapore

**Job**: Assistant Product Owner

**Schedule**: Permanent

: Full-time

**Job Posting**: 13-Nov-2024, 8:19:33 PM