Product Owner, AVP

Overview

Lead Front-to-Back (F2B) non-financial risk projects as Product Owner at Assistant Vice President level, acting as the business and functional counterpart for solution identification and delivery.

What you'll do

• Lead and manage multiple Front-to-Back projects simultaneously in the Non-Financial Risk space.
• Understand business flows, translate user requirements, and write Business Requirements Documents and User Stories.
• Work with waterfall and Agile methodologies using tools such as Jama and Jira.
• Write functional specification documents.
• Challenge requirements where needed and explain them to functional analysts, QA and development teams.
• Collaborate with functional analysts and application owners on solution identification and estimations.
• Support creation of business cases outlining cost impacts and value drivers of proposed solutions.
• Manage user acceptance testing and test case development and coordination with the business.
• Ensure end users and support teams are trained to use delivered solutions.
• Support Application Services teams in functional test case generation and test result validation.
• Document business and process flows.
• Support the implementation team and resolve post go-live issues.
• Create presentations for senior management forums.
• Coordinate and manage F2B UAT.
• Gather and interpret market intelligence through internal stakeholders and industry forums.
• Interact with Central Risk Control Teams and internal/external auditors to understand business requirements.
• Work closely with the development team to understand non-functional requirements for NFRM applications and products.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of experience as a Product Owner and Business Analyst in an Investment Banking environment.
• Subject matter expertise in Non-Financial Risk Management (Information Risk and Resilience Management - IRRM and Operational Risk Management - ORM) control framework.
• Experience in conceptualization and solution definition.
• Prior experience with Systems Development Life Cycle and Agile.
• Understanding of operational and non-financial risk in the investment banking domain.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to work with deadlines.
• Assertive, with the ability to interact with various control and operational teams.
• Good documentation skills, including process modelling.
• Strong problem-solving and analysis skills.
• Proactive, delivery-oriented approach.
• Knowledge of investment banking risk control frameworks and matrices.
• Enthusiastic 'can do' approach to all responsibilities.
• Ability to take direction as needed and to work independently.
• Excellent PC skills, including proficiency in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in an IT-related discipline.
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity and optimise workflows, applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

Nice to have

• Functional analysis and programming skills.
• Ability to think critically, analyze workflows and data, draw conclusions, suggest solutions to mitigate operational and non-financial risk, improve efficiency and recommend automated solutions.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.
• Corporate title: Assistant Vice President.