Purpose of the Role:

• Represent the business when capturing and grooming requirements, ensuring outcomes are aligned to both short term and strategic goals.
• Maximize the Value being delivered by ensuring all features are aligned to business value.
• Manage/Refine the backlog of the team through prioritization and decision making.
• Communicate updates to stakeholders and the wider community.
• Works within constraints by pivoting and applying trade-offs.
• Outline the requirements to develop the products.
• Supports Developers, Analysts and Quality Engineers in understanding the product needs, so they can deliver on their commitments.
• Manage complex environments with high number of features and interdependencies.

Key Accountabilities:

• Responsible for capturing and grooming requirements into epics, features, user stories and dependencies in collaboration with the squads that aligns with business requirements across multiple complex environments.
• Make day to day decisions to enable development team to move quickly through product iterations.
• Ensure the Delivery and Development teams understand the value of each user story that is being delivered at the right time.
• Own and manage team backlog and prioritise tasks in line with roadmap.
• Involved in the roadmap planning, release planning, execution, review of each sprint, realising impact, value and focus on the right priorities.
• Work collaboratively with Scrum Master and the squad to deliver backlog.
• Communicate release slices with key stakeholders.
• Attend all relevant ceremonies.
• Leaders at all levels will be expected to ensure their teams are clear, capable and motivated:
• Clear about purpose, values, goals and plans, expectations and processes, and the boundaries of ethical decision making.
• Capable with the right talent, time, tools and skills to do their work, with leaders expected to manage resources (people, budgets, assets) and coach teams to build competence and confidence.
• Motivated by leaders who build trust, inclusive teams and a psychologically safe environment, track results, and provide clear follow-up and feedback.

Required Experience:

• Strong AML/KYC Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Product and Domain Experience.
• Minimum 15+ years’ experience as a Product Owner or Business Analyst in global banking/ GCC environment.
• Good Functional Knowledge of FenX (Fenergo), PEGA and other CDD domain applications.
• Creativity and simplifying complex processes and issues, problem solving and process analysis.
• Extensive knowledge and experience working in banking in an agile delivery environment.
• Ability to communicate a product vision to key stakeholders and teams, developing it into a shaped backlog of key features, user stories and goals for individual sprints.
• Comfortable playing a leadership role, including leading workshops, in a co-located cross functional business and IT team through the discovery, development and operational usage stages of product development.
• Ability to innovate, adapt and grasp new skills and content.
• Ability to work closely with key stakeholders and build collaborative partnerships whilst sometimes saying no.
• Proven analytical skills and evidence-based decision making.