Position Purpose:
The Product Owner for BNP Paribas CIB Securities Services is responsible for designing use cases, ensuring solutions meet client expectations, and managing the strategic product roadmap for the Data@ccess platform. This role also involves working closely with 3rd party suppliers and global leadership teams to ensure strategic initiatives are aligned and successfully delivered. He will be part of a global data management services product team with regular coordination and synchronization required and will contribute to the delivery of a global product, service and client implementation roadmap.
The responsibilities include aligning client needs with product capabilities, documenting business requirements, and coordinating with internal teams, external partners, and vendors. Significant client interaction is required to ensure the optimal use of Data@ccess and guide clients through the product life cycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Product Ownership
- Understand client needs and reconcile them with platform capabilities to provide optimal solutions.
- Define and prioritize product features and the product backlog, ensuring alignment with overall business value.
- Work with the development team (vendor) to manage detailed specifications, ensuring all requirements are clearly defined, documented, and implemented effectively.
- Business Analysis and Client Engagement
- Manage client sign-offs and governance of Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and other project artifacts.
- Identify client needs and translate them into actionable requirements while considering operations, people, processes, and technology.
- Engage clients to understand objectives, gather feedback, provide insights into product capabilities, and adapt the product accordingly.
- Support planning and execution for new initiatives, including preparing relevant documentation.
- P&L and Risk Management
- Identify and address potential risks, including regulatory, operational, client-related, and vendor-related issues, in collaboration with internal stakeholders to ensure comprehensive coverage.
- Assess product profitability and propose actions to improve financial outcomes, working closely with cross-functional stakeholders to align financial strategies with product goals.
- Evaluate product profitability and recommend improvements.
Technical & Behavioural Competencies:
- Experience in business analysis, cross-functional team collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and financial product knowledge.
- Strong analytical skills to conduct detailed analysis and provide high-quality documentation.
- Ability to manage diverse stakeholders with different priorities.
- Effective collaboration with 3rd party suppliers and global leadership teams.
- Ability to influence without direct authority.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills across all levels.
- Creative thinker with problem-solving skills.
- Experience managing specifications and product implementation with vendors.
About BNP PARIBAS
As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.
We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds
BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to reach out to us at au.nz.recruitment@asia.bnpparibas.com or 9221 3026
https://careers.apac.bnpparibas/
More information
BNP Paribas – Diversity & Inclusion Journey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZatNskr5aI
BNP Paribas – The Bank Of Green Changes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCz5aEdkDiM
Award Obtained
BNPP has won Top employer Europe award in a 10th consecutive year