Associate Director, Payments Product Owner - GTS

at  Westpac Institutional Banking

HOW WILL I HELP?

Global Transaction Services (GTS) is a key pillar of Westpac’s institutional bank that services the cash management and working capital needs of Westpac’s institutional customers, whilst managing and running the payments infrastructure for the wider bank.
GTS is embarking on a journey to deliver two initiatives as part of Westpac’s Project Unite a $2billion technology simplification program. Payment’s ecosystem simplification, which will decrease the cost of future change whilst increasing the speed at which GTS make changes; and Payments consolidation, which migrates payments flows into GTS’s strategic real-time payments processors and paves the way for future BECS rationalisation.
As the Payments Product Owner you will be responsible for developing the requirements and prioritized road map for delivering the tech simplification agenda. You will be the key link between the project team and the Agile delivery team whilst being accountable for proper Product and Services Lifecycle governance and risk delivery.

You will also:

• Lead the vision for the payments simplification and payments consolidation, including implementing a product management strategy that delivers against the objectives and principles of Project Unite.
• Influence the target state design by working with architects, solution designers, developers and third-party vendors to assess solutions and put forward recommendations that meet the business requirements.
• Lead the requirements squad team to document the Agile backlog, and work with technology to refine the solution design and low-level user stories.
• Manage the product backlog, including supporting backlog prioritisation, program increment and sprint planning, delivery, testing and retrospectives.
• Work with delivery teams to lead the build and implementation of target solutions against a challenging release schedule.
• Support defining and delivering the test requirements and strategy, including non-functional requirements.
• Understand the impacts of changes to applicable legislation, regulatory and payment scheme frameworks, and ensure the target design meets the requirements of Compliance and Risk. Rigorously identify and diligently manage operational risks, incidents, issues and controls.
• Be the expert within the payments domain in relation to competitors, new emerging products & services, leading thinking on customer needs led product management, industry knowledge, emerging market trends locally and globally and general market conditions.

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