Financial Risk Product Owner Senior Associate

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

3d • $75,000 - $150,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Financial Risk Product Owner Senior Associate is responsible for translating the product vision into squad deliverables to achieve the product strategy, aligned with maximizing value to the client. This is done through managing scope and product backlog in collaboration with the multiple squads, Product Manager, clients (internal/external) and key stakeholders. The position requires keen business analysis and communication skills to draft and present business requirements to both internal and external stakeholders for ratification. The candidate must be proficient in depicting and describing business impact assessments between current-state and various future state business models. The position entails leading multiple internal stakeholder meetings and representing Financial Risk & Governance’s business in various forums on projects and new initiatives.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred with Masters or equivalent experience.
• Experience in Agile/scrum methodology, including defining a minimal viable product, and exposure to other software development methodologies.
• Exhibits strong understanding of Agile Software Development (primarily Scrum and Kanban) principles and techniques.
• Understands and uses applicable work management tools (i.e. JIRA) for decision making and collaboration.
• Drives creative and solution-oriented activity with all participants and stakeholders.
• Knowledge of financial services operations and risk management; clearance and settlement, post trade processing & associated regulation, trends and user demands in these areas.
• Executes against the Product Vision and effectively translates into Product Roadmap and Backlog items to deliver the highest value.
• Collaborate with product management peers globally to ensure best practice and core principals are understood, adopted and implemented in regional initiatives.
• Ability to collect, analyze and visually present data via the use of charts, graphs or infographics.

Responsibilities

• Support Financial Risk & Governance in achieving their strategic objectives, which may include aspects of project management, task management, moderating meetings, coordinating with key stakeholders to deliver the product vision and the roadmap into squad deliverables and release plans.
• Work with the leads of various Financial Risk & Governance teams to deliver on the specific initiatives prioritized and budgeted.
• Support the priorities of FR&G through planning, developing a deeper knowledge, and partnering with development and engineering teams.
• Support the Product Owners in an Agile squad and partnering with internal teams for implementation of new features ensuring that all proposed changes are reviewed, feedback is incorporated, and any impact is fully communicated to internal stakeholders.
• Participate in internal and external working groups and other relevant subject matter working groups.
• Assist with data and material preparation.
• Identifies potential risks to achieving project objectives and elevates to appropriate management. Mitigates risk by following established procedures, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand applicable legislation and develop requirements that drive regulatory compliant solutions.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree