Product Owner - Core Banking

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The Banking Operations function of Bank Julius Baer (BJB) is part of the COO organization. It plays a crucial role in delivering high quality and seamless services with the focus on efficiency and accuracy towards its clients. The responsibilities are encompassing a wide range of services, treasury/FX/MM & payment processing, securities processing and settlement, reconciliations, thereby enabling and facilitating the smooth day-to-day operations of BJB. We are looking for a Product Owner to take on the responsibility of the Core Banking platform regionally, managing operational change-the-bank and a run-the-bank component. The opportunity is in a challenging environment, involving multiple stakeholder across different products and services.

YOUR CHALLENGE

Project Scoping

Participate in the project as business analyst / product owner from the business perspective

Gather and define user stories and create a backlog (including functional, non-functional, legal and operational requirements) for T24

Partner with business leads to identify needs for Core Banking

Focus on customer value and continuously drive product improvements and roadmap

Facilitate timeline and budget estimates; facilitate business case preparation

Set up project governance and project team

Project Delivery

Ensure solutions are strategic whenever possible with an eye on future macro-developments

Drive coordination of key initiatives to enable consistency in the product roadmap

Establish project plan, identify key milestones, critical path and dependencies

Examine project progress and maintain project plan

Identify, track and resolve risks and issues that may arise during the lifecycle of the project; proactively propose mitigating actions

Ensures that all deliverables are provided on-time and on-quality by institutionalizing appropriate quality checks

Coordinate preparation and execution of User Acceptance Testing and User sign-off

Issue regular & accurate project status reports and institute progress meetings to keep stakeholders informed

Change Management and Communications

Drive transformation by running or supporting the implementation, communication and training

Manage interactions and communication with stakeholders

Work with Business Sponsor to ensure operational readiness of business after project go-live

Design and execute training plan

Communicate key changes and workarounds to clients and users

Regulatory Responsibilities &/OR Risk Management

Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations

RANK APPLICABLE TO THE POSITION

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YOUR PROFILE

Professional and Technical

Minimum 10 years of experience in private banking

8+ years’ experience with agile delivery approaches (e.g., Scrum, SAFe), ideally working experience as a product owner or similar role

Experience in working with T24 or any core banking platform preferred

Thorough understanding of private banking value chain and good understanding of core processes such as advisory and investment management and the typical PB product landscape

Strong expertise in digital products and services in Private Banking (e.g. Digital Advisory)

Good understanding of business processes, process design, and process re-engineering

Good understanding of business processes, process design, and process re-engineering

Demonstrated capability for problem solving, decision making, sound judgement assertiveness

Experience in finding operational synergies and performing impact analysis on business models, tools and processes

Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and taking a hands-on approach

Personal and Social

Strong conceptual skills

Analytical and understands a broad range of technologies; keeps up to date with market and technology trends

Ability to drive and demonstrate strong end-product orientation

Big picture thinking, problem solving

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Proven ability to manage large cross-functional project teams

Proven ability to interact with functional management at all levels

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