Chief Product Owner, Clearing & Margining

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Requisition Number: 55736

Job Location: Singapore, SGP

Global Grade: Band 5

Work Type: Office Working

Employment Type: Permanent

Posting Start Date: 16/07/2026

Posting End Date: 30/07/2026

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Job Summary

We are seeking a talented and passionate, individual to join Standard Chartered as the Chief Product Owner of Margining & Clearing in the Markets COO Transformation Post Trade team.

Our Product Owners have a deep understanding of the target market/industry and build close relationships with key stakeholders to ensure the teams effort is aligned with overall strategy and client / customer needs.

If tackling complex challenges excites you, then join our Markets COO Transformation Post Trade team where you will get to collaborate and work on solutions across business and functions. You will have the opportunity to build and maintain the best-in-class products / services for our clients and customers, whilst continuously striving to reduce time-to-market and streamline our processes.

What will you do?

The Chief Product Owner for Margining and Clearing is an empowered senior decision maker accountable for maximising the business value of two critical post-trade capabilities: margining and clearing .

They oversee the full lifecycle of these capabilities, ensuring that margin processes (collateral management, margin calls, dispute handling, optimisation and settlement) and clearing processes (trade execution, validation, lifecycle management, reconciliation, reporting and settlement) are delivered in a scalable, standardised and risk-controlled manner.

The role acts as the single point of accountability for end-to-end outcomes across both capabilities, addressing fragmentation, multiple governance forums, and lack of visibility across initiatives, and driving a unified and efficient operating model.

The Chief Product Owner leads multiple Product Owners and collaborates closely with operations, front office, technology and control functions to ensure alignment across the entire trade lifecycle.

Accountable for:

Maximising business value by delivering efficient, scalable and controlled margining and clearing processes across products and regions

Establishing a single, unified view of all margining and clearing initiatives , improving visibility, prioritisation and governance across the organisation

Driving simplification by reducing fragmentation, handoffs and duplication across processes and delivery teams

Overseeing the margining capability , including:

Collateral management and optimisation

Margin calls and dispute resolution

Margin matching, settlement and lifecycle management

Owning the clearing capability, including:

Trade execution, validation and lifecycle processing

Allocation and confirmation of cleared trades

Clearing obligations and regulatory requirements

Broker connectivity and account management

Reconciliation, controls and exception management

Risk and credit management related to cleared trades

Settlement, accounting and fee processing

Static data, reporting and client information

Operational controls, audit and management reporting

Owning and prioritising a single consolidated backlog across margining and clearing, covering transformation, operational improvements, risk remediation and regulatory changes

Ensuring consistent prioritisation across competing initiatives based on value, risk and operational impact

Driving cross-capability synergies between margining, clearing, trade lifecycle processing and reporting

Establishing strong governance and efficient decision-making, including:

Streamlined engagement with control functions such as legal and compliance

Clear ownership across product, process and technology teams

Improved resource utilisation and cross-functional flexibility

Managing operational risk, process changes and delivery risks across both capabilities

Actively removing blockers and resolving dependencies across complex delivery streams

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

Drive convergence of processes and platforms across clearing and margining to enable a simplified and scalable operating model

Establish a single governance and prioritisation structure across all initiatives to improve transparency and execution efficiency

Promote standardisation across markets, products and regions to reduce complexity and operational risk

Drive automation and digitisation of manual processes, particularly in margin handling, reconciliation and trade lifecycle events

Enable reuse of capabilities across asset classes to avoid bespoke implementations

Ensure alignment between pre-trade, trade execution and post-trade processes to support end-to-end consistency

Use data, performance metrics and stakeholder feedback to continuously refine strategic priorities

Business

Maximising business value by delivering efficient, scalable and controlled margining and clearing processes across products and regions

Establishing a single, unified view of all margining and clearing initiatives, improving visibility, prioritisation and governance across the organisation

Driving simplification by reducing fragmentation, handoffs and duplication across processes and delivery teams

Overseeing the margining capability, including:

Collateral management and optimisation

Margin calls and dispute resolution

Margin matching, settlement and lifecycle management

Owning the clearing capability, including:

Trade execution, validation and lifecycle processing

Allocation and confirmation of cleared trades

Clearing obligations and regulatory requirements

Broker connectivity and account management

Reconciliation, controls and exception management

Risk and credit management related to cleared trades

Settlement, accounting and fee processing

Static data, reporting and client information

Operational controls, audit and management reporting

Owning and prioritising a single consolidated backlog across margining and clearing, covering transformation, operational improvements, risk remediation and regulatory changes

Ensuring consistent prioritisation across competing initiatives based on value, risk and operational impact

Driving cross-capability synergies between margining, clearing, trade lifecycle processing and reporting

Processes

Establish and enforce end-to-end process ownership across margining and clearing, ensuring clear accountability and visibility

Align processes to enterprise standards across the full trade lifecycle, from execution to settlement and reporting

Improve operational workflows by reducing handoffs, simplifying interactions between systems and teams, and increasing straight-through processing

Ensure appropriate controls, auditability and regulatory compliance are embedded across all processes

Streamline governance processes by:

Actively contributing to a single refinement and prioritisation forum as the CPO

Improving visibility of all initiatives and their relative importance

Standardising review and approval workflows

Partner closely with:

Operations teams for margining and clearing execution

Front office where clearing impacts trade execution and client activity

Control functions to ensure efficient and compliant processes

Maintain clear oversight of dependencies across upstream and downstream processes including reporting, accounting and reconciliation

Ensure all governance, documentation and assurance requirements are met consistently across both capabilities

People & Talent

Champion and act as a role model of the Group’s values and culture. Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Sets appropriate tone and expectations for their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.

Lead and support a change in mindset, building a culture of client centricity, agility, and accountability through standardised metrics and measurement, ensuring everyone in the Bank are drivers and owners of client outcomes.

Set effective metrics and standards, transparently communicating them to team members, providing feedback and rewarding employees accordingly. Set the appropriate tone and expectations for the wider team.

Employ, engage, and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles.

Ensure team structure/capacity is reviewed to enable delivery of client outcomes.

Ensure the provision of on-going training & development, ensure that direct reports are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles and that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risk.

Set and monitor s and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.

Create a motivational and challenging environment for staff which is conducive to creativity and performance with customer centricity in mind.

Provide feedback on transformation leaders to their people leaders, as part of performance reviews

Risk Management

Create transparency around backlog item progress, blockers, impediments, dependencies, and product value delivery via fit for purpose business and delivery metrics.

Engage process and risk control owners in upfront in design of process changes. Have oversight of, direct tracking and monitoring of projects.

Governance

Adopt and embed the Ways of Working Standards throughout the lifecycle of the product / service.

Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.

Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.

Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Key stakeholders

T&O Markets & Post Trade Technology Leadership team

Markets COO Leadership team

Markets Trading and Sales

Markets Operations Leadership team

Operations Clearing and Margining

Credit and Market Risk teams

Functional Partners : CFCC, HR, Finance, Legal, GIA

Transformation Leads across the Bank

Group Process owners

Our Ideal Candidate

15 plus years of experience in Financial Markets technology and operations, with strong exposure to post-trade environments

Deep expertise in end-to-end trade lifecycle processing, with a strong understanding of how trades flow from execution through confirmation, clearing, margining, settlement and reporting

Proven experience and strong subject matter knowledge in both:

Clearing processes (trade lifecycle management, reconciliation, settlement, controls and reporting)

Margining processes (collateral management, margin calls, dispute resolution, optimisation and settlement).

Licences and Certifications/accreditations:

Product Owner certification from Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org or other associations will be an asset

Practitioner certification of Scaled Agile framework like LeSS, SAFe, Scrum@Scale, Spotify, Nexus and Human Centred Design or Design Thinking are plus.

Professional Memberships: Association or Discipline Association Membership well regarded.

Demonstrated ability to operate at scale across complex, multi-product and multi-region environments, driving standardisation and simplification

Strong understanding of operational processes and controls, with the ability to design solutions that are both efficient and compliant

Proven track record as a Product Owner or senior product leader, with full accountability for backlog prioritisation, delivery outcomes and stakeholder alignment

Solid experience working in Agile ways of working, including backlog management, prioritisation, iterative delivery and close collaboration with cross-functional teams

Ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on delivery, making clear trade-offs between value, risk, cost and speed

Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align front office, operations, technology and control functions

A forward-looking, adaptable mindset, with a strong appetite for continuous learning and innovation

Good understanding of how to leverage automation and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to simplify processes, reduce manual effort and improve decision-making

Strong analytical and data-driven approach, with the ability to use metrics and insights to drive prioritisation and measure outcomes

Role Specific Technical Competencies

Product / Service subject matter expertise

Product delivery lifecycle experience using Agile Ways of Working (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, etc…)

Understanding Customer Needs (research, insights & communication)

Data driven decision making & product analytics

Business plan – design and execution (tactical and strategic)

Marketing Strategy and Positioning

Stakeholder management and communication

Regulatory Environment – Financial Services

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, 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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