Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Lead to define product road map, business requirements, product USP and CVP for full-cycle ownership of products from design to release and maintain
• Execute the business strategy, product strategy, and value propositions of the products and services
• Collaborate with Domain architecture & Solution Architect team to understand the ecosystems, lending end-to-end orchestration and functional diagrams, for example Loan origination system, loan management system, core banking system, decisioning engine, underwriting, and back-office systems
• Participate in business meetings with stakeholders (led by Product lead) to brainstorm and align on product processes
• Establish the user stories, acceptance criteria, process diagrams, workflows and manage the backlog of the products, including loan origination journey, loan repayment journey, underwriting and decisioning
• Attend the scrum meetings and proactively owner the product requirements and delivery expectations in all scrum meetings
• Explain the essentials of product features and requirements to ensure that engineering understands the value of our offerings, user stories and product back logs
• Take full responsibility for specific releases of the products and services, ensure that they fulfill customers’ needs and are delivered in financial grade quality
• Research and alignment of specifications for new features, as well as enhancement of existing ones
• Bench-marking of own product portfolio against competitive products and industry standards
• Conceptual design, research, and specification of entirely new features and functions
• Define product and service requirements aligned to the road map
• Keep up to date with the fin-tech industry trends to allow for a state-of-the-art product and feature design
• Identify and evaluate new product features
• Conduct feasibility studies and development estimates
• Establish the functional and end to end test cases
• Develop analytical tools and KPIs covering and monitoring product and feature performance.

Qualification and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Banking sector
• Minimum 4 years of experience with cash loan products in banks and consumer finance, with a good understanding of the cash loan regulations and market practices
• Experience in digital lending is a strong advantage
• Experience with Loan origination and loan management system processing, account processing (core banking)
• Understand cash loan execution process
• A natural digital junkie who keeps abreast of the latest digital trends
• Proven ability to deal with ambiguous situations
• Ability to manage complex projects with a diverse range of stakeholders including Domain architect, Solution architect, Engineering, Operations, Data, Risk
• Strong sense of business objectives
• Ability to think in a customer-centric approach while equally being able to pivot around new ideas in an agile way-of-working.
• Strong communication, problem solving and analytical skills, and ability to influence, coach and train others
• Ability to anticipate, act proactively, and work both autonomously and as a team player. Includes ability to work with multiple stakeholders and build relationships across multiple departments
• High degree of ownership and constructive sense of urgency
• Ability to handle competing priorities, tight turnaround, and multiple deadlines
• Detail-oriented with strong time management and organizational skills