As a Product Owner in our Finance team, you will play a crucial role in defining, refining, and achieving our firm's goals. You'll be part of the Firmwide Financial Business Architecture Team (FFBA), which manages large-scale infrastructure programs and business process changes to ensure accurate, complete, and consistent data for internal financial and external regulatory reporting.
Your focus will be on evolving a globally consistent data and reporting strategy that meets business, finance, risk, and regulatory needs. You'll also prioritize delivering high-quality, well-controlled data for these processes.
Job responsibilities:
- Design and develop the operating model for a Data Quality Team function.
- Partner with the Banking Book Product Owner team to deliver data quality solutions with upstream data providers.
- Strengthen the operating and control environment of the Banking Book team, including creation and maintenance of procedures, policies, standards, and tooling for daily operations.
- Manage the book of Data Quality issues throughout the entire lifecycle.
- Adhere to Firmwide Data Quality principles, standards, and mandates, and report status updates through proper channels.
- Represent and drive Data Quality issues in multiple Firmwide Finance Business Architecture, Internal Stakeholder, and Firmwide forums.
- Support end-to-end project and release cycles, including scope, critical milestones, sourcing requirements, test strategy, execution, implementation checklists, and stakeholder/technology activities.
- Present key project updates and risks to key consumers and stakeholders.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders to influence and facilitate multiple work streams.
- Resolve issues and escalate critical risks.
- Lead and drive other Banking Book projects as needed.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of Project management or Product Owner experience and process re-engineering
- Proven and passionate Product Owner with firm understanding of agile principles and experience delivering large complex programs
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with an ability to quickly learn and assimilate business and technical knowledge in a fast-paced environment and articulate complex concepts to varied audiences
- Strong written and verbal communications skills, with the ability to present to senior stakeholders
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple streams of work concurrently and within tight deadlines while maintaining sound judgment and a risk mindset
- Solid understanding of Financial and/or Regulatory reporting processes
- People Management skills required with an ability to lead, influence, and build strong relationships with partner teams
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Experience in Financial Services (Finance, Risk, or Operations) and as a Product lead
- Knowledge and experience of traditional credit (Loans, Deposits, Cash) and Liquidity and Credit Reporting related data
- Knowledge of JIRA tooling and dash boarding
- Overall strong desktop skills including Excel and PowerPoint