Company Description
Formed in 2017 by the combination of Misys and D+H, we provide the broadest portfolio of financial services software in the world today—spanning retail banking, transaction banking, lending, capital markets and treasury.
Our solutions enable customers to deploy mission critical technology on premises or in the cloud. With our scale and geographical reach we drive valued solutions and opportunity for customers regardless of size or geography. Through our open, secure, and reliable solutions, we empower customers to accelerate growth, optimize cost, mitigate risk and continually evolve to meet their changing needs.
A Truly global organization with offices in 42 countries worldwide, with an employee base of approximately 10,000 employees. We work with 9,000 customers, including 48 of the top 50 banks globally. Through our software, we’re constantly stretching boundaries to do more for our customers. We are proud to be an organisation where our vision, values and cultural beliefs are not just shared, but are lived by our people globally and where recognition is part of each and every day
Job Description
Job Description
Business Unit: Financial Messaging
Title: Product Owner - Fraud, Compliance & Financial Crime
Reporting to: Product Director, Financial Messaging
Job purpose
This role is designed to positioning Finastra’s Fraud, Compliance & Financial Crime Services for market growth in the changing Payments & Banking landscape and to create and deliver compelling commercial offerings to drive business sales & financial results.
As a Product Owner, your primary focus will be to understand and to maximise the value being created by the Development Team and to support the Product Managers objectives.
You must have a background in Fraud, Compliance & Financial Crime and be able to gathers details and to write quality stories so that the Development Team can build robust solutions.
You will need to demonstrate that not only do you have industry knowledge, but you are able to work in a fast-paced environment and that you can work collaboratively and transparently to deliver against set objectives.
Focus
What will be built today?
Main Stakeholders
The Product Manager, Development Teams & Service Bureau.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Development process optimisation.
- Backlog shaping, grooming and prioritisation.
- Defacto voice of the customer.
Owns
Team backlog (including epics, stories, and tasks)
Responsibilities & Deliverables
Your responsibilities and deliverables will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Product Owner in an Agile Scrum team: responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of that Scrum Team. Act as the “single voice” for priority and acceptance, of what to work on for delivery, of assigned product features and provide clear statement of vision, direction, and release purpose and goals.
- Backlog management and iteration planning: maintaining a well-groomed Product Backlog according to business value.
- Effective and timely coordination and communication with Product Managers and other stakeholders to align with and contribute to the product roadmap and strategy.
- Build and maintain a strong practical knowledge of the product functionality and deployment architecture.
- Produce / contribute to and maintain product collateral – product release notes, user guides, product fliers, product overviews, product presales presentations, roadmap communications.
- Scrum and resource planning with R&D.
Qualifications
Required & Desired Experience
The successful candidate will bring experience in some, but not necessarily all, of the following areas:
- 5+ years of relevant financial services software experience in Fraud, Compliance or Financial Crime Services as a senior Business Analyst or Product Owner.
- Fluent in English with strong verbal and written communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
- Strong problem-solving, planning, and decision-making skills. Ability to work independently, apply judgment, maintain stable performance under stress and flexibility in an evolving work environment.
- Experience with Agile development and Scrum/Kanban processes, or an alternative SDLC management process.
- Experience capturing functional requirements in the form of User Stories and Epics, or equivalent.
- Experience with or exposure to Financial Messaging / Payment processing systems, middleware, gateways, or Market Infrastructures.
- Experience with development and deployment of hosted and/or multi-tenant software delivered as SaaS or Cloud that utilizes service orientated architecture and that present published API's.
- Experience with development and deployment of enterprise-grade software products that can perform, scale, and integrate in a payments or financial messaging enterprise ecosystem.
Top Skills
What We Do
At Finastra our purpose is to unlock the power of finance for everyone & redefine finance for good. We’re the orchestrator of open finance; building and delivering innovative, next-generation technology on our open Fusion software architecture and cloud ecosystem. We’re one of the world’s largest FinTechs, working with over 9,000 customers including 90 of the top 100 banks globally.
We’re creating a pioneering open platform that’s disrupting the financial industry, changing how financial software is developed and used. We believe in collaboration for innovation, to unlock the potential of people, businesses and communities. We have an unmatched portfolio of financial software and deliver mission critical solutions for financial institutions of all sizes, on premises or in the cloud. Our open architecture and platform approach embrace a wide ecosystem of partners and co innovators. Together we're leading the way in which applications are written, deployed and consumed in the world of financial services.
Our people mission is to be the most loved and inclusive fintech company in the world; a mission we take seriously. DE&I factors into everything we do and every decision we make as a business. When you join Finastra, you open up a world of possibilities. With us, you can supercharge financial institutions, big tech and fintech while also building a more inclusive finance industry.
We believe our people thrive when given the opportunity to be their authentic selves and we trust our people to work how, when and where they want; this is OPENworking. Our 2+ policy provides the perfect mix of focused work at home, coupled with the meaningful connection that comes from in person collaboration, coaching and community. We're rolling out a new programme where our people take as much leave as they need; we do not count vacation days and we trust our people to work in a way that suits them, when it suits them.
Come join the future of Fintech, and make your world. OPEN.
