Job Description:- Product Owner Sanctions Screening Payment enablement platform
- We are seeking a product owner to lead our Sanctions Screening Payment enablement platform delivering regulatory compliant high performing capabilities for detection and investigation You will own the roadmap metrics and stakeholder alignment working cross functionally to improve quality reduce handling time and maintain audit ready controls Ideal candidate have product experience in regulated environment and a strong grasp of screening workflows data.
Role Summary- Own the vision roadmap and delivery of the sanctions screening product used to detect manager and report potential sanctions exposure across transactions clients and reference data
- Partner with compliance operations technology and risk to ensure the product meets regulatory expectations and operational SLAS while continuously improving accuracy speed and user experience
- Drive measurable outcomes reduction in false positives improved match resolution time high system availability and audit ready controls
Key Responsibilities- Product vision and Roadmap
- define and maintain the product vision aligned to regulatory requirements and business goals
- create and manage an outcome focused roadmap prioritize features using data and risk weighted value
- Backlog management and delivery
- translate business and compliance needs into clear epics user stories and acceptance criteria
- maintain a prioritized backlog balance feature delivery tech debt model tuning and control enhancements
- lead sprint planning backlog refinement and release coordination with engineering
- Compliance Risk and controls
- partner with compliance financial crimes to reflect sanctions policy update in product design
- ensure controls for auditability evidence capture traceability and model governance are built-in
- coordinate change management UAT and production validation with appropriate approvals
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Data Models and performance
- Operational excellence
- Delivery governance and audit readiness
Required Qualifications- 5 years in product management or product owner role in regulated financial services or fintech
- Experience with sanctions screening domains eg Watchlist screening for payments clients or trade
- Strong grasp of agile delivery scrum and backlog management practices
- Excellent stakeholder management communication and decision-making skills
Preferred Desired experience- Exposure to sanctions lists and regulatory regime eg OFAC UK EUUN and typical list structures
- Handson experience with screening solutions or components eg Fuzzy matching Phonetic linguistic normalization name alias resolution lifecycle management
- Understanding of workflows case management disposition and escalation paths
- Experience with enterprise grade observability and operational tooling logs metrics dashboards
- Background in risk and control frameworks audit processes and evidence management
Core competencies and behaviours
- Client obsessed spark progress own it stay curious Thrive together