Job Summary
Product Owner, Financing & Securities Services Digital Assets Transformation & Group Operations WEST role is a pivotal within our organization, responsible for managing and expanding our digital asset custody services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This role involves ensuring operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and strategic growth in a rapidly evolving digital asset landscape.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy

• Formulate the vision that will take the Bank's current Digital Asset (DA) custody offering into its next iteration of services.
• Influence wider Business stakeholders on the vision that will build the 'moat' for the Bank's future success and profitability.
• Collaborate closely with Technology to foresee opportunities and overcome hurdles prior to implementation with the goal of Getting it right the first time.
• Identify opportunities that connect services demanded from Institutional clients to the Bank's current and upcoming service offering.

Business

• Corroborate with stakeholders to achieve client acquisition targets.
• Communicate successes and challenges throughout the lifecycle of projects to stakeholders.

Processes

• Curate and implement the next operating model for wallet and token operations.
• Develop the operating model for Decentralized Finance (DeFi) operations.
• Lead relevant data engineering initiatives and solutions
• Rollout AI/ML capabilities for improved governance and monitoring of Digital Asset operational processes such as screening, travel rules.

People & Talent

• Consulting attitude with engineering skillset
• Is results driven and has a positive attitude
• Effective team player and collaborator
• Strong personal integrity
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Can effectively communicate business and technical information across the organization, being sensitive to the needs of unique audiences
• Crypto-native understanding of the Digital Asset (DA) space, preferrable.

Risk Management

• Ensure adherence to risk management framework

Governance

• Aligning with new Ways of Working Management Standards (nWOWS).
• Oversee & track implementation timelines, resolve impediments / blockers, ensure change communication & transition.
• Very good understanding of change management and project management.
• Keeping project team well informed of the design and execution dependencies within the programme and outside the programme.
• Identify, analyse, prepare risk mitigation tactics and manage anticipated resistances.

Key stakeholders

• Group Functions Heads and Process Owners
• Business Unit Heads
• Country stakeholders
• Global Business Services (GBS) stakeholders
• Technology Teams
• Programme Management Teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Languages English

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.
Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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