Product Owner – NFR Compliance @ING Hubs Romania

Discover ING Hubs Romania

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub – a distinct entity from ING Bank Romania – then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies.

Formerly known as ING Tech, as of 2022 we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities under the name of ING Hubs Romania and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj.

With the help of 1600 engineers, risk and operations professionals, we offer 130 services in tech, non-financial risk & compliance, audit and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1300 colleagues active in Data Management, TouchPoint Channels & Integration and Core Banking.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged. Work ethics, honesty and knowledge sharing are key to our teams and we’re always looking for like-minded people.

The Mission

An important program within ING is the implementation of Non-Financial Risk applications, especially for Compliance. In the squads, applications for Compliance will be onboarded and maintained. The application in scope for the role is a vendor supplied application.

Your day to day

Even if you’ll start your day from the comfort of your home or drink your morning coffee in our office’s garden, your day will be quite similar when it comes to tasks. Here are your daily responsibilities:

• As Product Owner you give direction to the squads ensuring the implementation, roll-out and maintenance of the application.

• You coordinate 2 multidisciplinary squads that consist of Business Analysts, IT Developers and IT OPS staff.  
• You have the overall view and work with your squads to reach the ultimate goals.
• You ensure coordination between IT, functional stakeholders, and vendor to customize/configure and implement the application.
• The Non-Financial Risk, Compliance community is your client base, in almost all countries where ING is currently active. Therefore, staying in close contact with these clients will be an important part of your job.
• As we work Agile, your job is to lead your teams with short term objectives and pro-actively align with a wide array of internal and global stakeholders.
• You are able to say No when necessary, so that you safeguard the squads from external influences and keep focus on sprints goals.
• You perform backlog management and oversee priorities, considering both business requirements and the vendor’s implementation strategy and roadmap.
• You are responsible for defining the acceptance criteria and verifying they are met.
• You are responsible for making sure grooming (creating and refining, estimating, prioritizing) activities take place in a way that promote the smooth flow of delivered value.
• You and your teams are responsible for a stable and maintainable Compliance application.
• You have a direct impact on the direction of the squads and chapter.
• You look for challenges and encourage people to improve.

What you’ll bring to the team

• Experience:
  • Relevant project and banking experience as Senior Business Analyst and Product Owner
  • Agile Way of Working (Scrum) is preferred
  • Stakeholder management - excellent communicator and able to build bridges between multiple stakeholders. You are able to convincingly put forward your proposals, challenge and convince and are a real team player in reaching broad agreement on the road to follow.
  • Preparing and presenting roadmaps and milestones to higher management
  • Setting vision and priorities
  • Standing firm in discussions and explaining goals in a clear and understanding manner
  • Implementing solutions developed with external vendor – a good understanding of the particularities as the local teams have also functional admin function.
• Tech stack/ knowledge:
  • Mandatory: risk and security knowledge of an app; affinity for TECH/IT.
  • Nice to have: -
• Foreign languages: English (advanced)
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in an Economic or IT related field

What’s in it for you

• Annual Performance Bonus up to two salaries
• Extra vacation days depending on the total length of working experience
• Flextime – our own way of working
• Monthly budget on Benefit platform
• Growth opportunities
  • Defining a clear career path on short/ mid/ long term and identify the competencies you need to build/ develop to reach the next level: vertically – towards a managerial position or horizontally – towards an expert or architect level, locally or globally
  • Internal mobility is encouraged
  • Possibility to access International Short-Term Assignments or Long-Term Assignments
  • Upskilling/ reskilling programs
• Learning & Development opportunities
  • Annual training & certifications budget
  • Pluralsight & e-learning platforms
• CSR activities: tree planting, coding lessons for teenagers etc.