Product Manager

Product Manager in Functions & Risk Area:

This role requires experience in Enterprise Risk Management Domain or Market & Credit Risk domain.

The successful candidate will source PO profiles accordingly.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day product management for core products, including product delivery, client experience, and client communication strategies.
• Develop and lead the strategic program roadmap for the ERDL, with a vision for the end-to-end product development lifecycle.
• Manage capacity planning by advocating for funding needed to meet needs and identifying risk or issues that may impact delivery.
• Identify technical risks and dependencies for the ERDL platform on Front line business units (FLUs), business, and technology teams, and drive mitigation paths.
• Define technical workstreams in the platform development project and identify resources and talent to serve the technology product owners to drive the platform build.
• Drive decision-making and solutioning with scrum teams and business teams to meet business and regulatory commitments.
• Manage stakeholders from enterprise architecture, third-party vendors, and risk management organizations to drive solutions and plans to build the ERDL.
• Collaborate with solution architects and data providers to create system architecture, including data sourcing strategies of the ERDL and database design.
• Drive solutioning and create the tech backlog based on business requirements, prioritizing based on tech complexity, business needs, and dependencies.
• Ensure adherence to Operations and Technology and Functions Technology standards on program delivery, compliance, process management, risk, and controls.
• Avoidance of risks when making business decisions, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct, and business practices, and escalating, managing, and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervising the activity of others and creating accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Leadership Qualities:

• Collaborative by nature, builds partnerships across the firm.
• An excellent communicator who gets on well with others, building strong professional relationships.
• Ability to create a strong network of relationships among peers, internal, and external partners.
• Ability to negotiate and influence at all levels, even in the absence of formal reporting relationships.
• Risk and Controls focused, putting diligent risk management and security at the core of everything they do.
• Creative and innovative, brings different angles to problems and provides new solutions through inclusion.

Qualifications:

• 10 years of relevant experience, with at least 5 years of managerial experience.
• Relevant experience in Risk Management, including regulatory remediation initiatives.
• Solid understanding of relevant banking regulation and supervisory expectations for large complex financial institutions.
• Possesses an observable and impactful delivery track record on business or risk function transformation.
• Subject Matter Expertise in risk and controls disciplines within technology processes.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements.
• Ability to synthesize information, prioritize business goals, and drive results with a high sense of urgency.
• Strong ability to communicate clearly to both technical experts and non-technical business partners to facilitate discussions and clearly articulate findings and defend points of view amongst various groups.
• Passion for building great products to solve business problems.
• Extensive experience working closely with cross-functional partners in risk management, technology, and Front Line Units.
• Track record of managing senior internal relationships and demonstrated experience in leading sustained change and change management efforts.
• Working experience of partnering with Program Management Office and business stakeholders.
• Must be a proactive and goal-oriented strategic thinker, with ability to identify creative solutions.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience.