Group Product Owner - KYC

Location: Toronto, Hybrid

Job Description:

The Product Group Owner (KYC Product) is responsible to ensure that a development team or multiple development teams are creating value for the organization through the delivery of customer-focused product increments. This entails aligning with other Product Owners and senior management to follow a product vision, creating and maintaining a prioritized product backlog, managing delivery blockers, continuously assessing customer feedback. The Product Group Owner should always be considering how to maximize value, assessing how the product or the delivery process can be continuously improved, contributes to a positive work environment and ensures that work embodies the Agile principles of transparency, collaboration and engagement. This role will primarily support KYC Product for AMCB (US) although can be based in Canada.

• Develop and execute KYC (Know Your Customer) product strategic & planning process to establish priorities and drive change.
• Responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle management of business capabilities to effectively enable KYC program and to create, execute, and evolve long term Product /Business Capability Roadmaps.
• Contributes to the KYC product group health including OKR, maturity measures, financial, capacity, KPIs, and KRIs.
• Challenge the norm and provide the thought leadership in KYC required control solutions which meet regulatory expectation and also deliver the best-in-class customer and colleague experience.
• Work with senior business leaders to ensure our product capabilities and solutions are functionally aligned with requirements and that a fit for purpose solution is designed, with the support from AVP, KYC Engineering.
• Mobilize teams & ensures alignment, manage interdependencies, prioritize with other partners to achieve the value.
• Proactive alignment to three lines of defense strategy, and build strong relationship with AML Compliance, LOBs, other control functions to meet regulatory expectation.
• Supports any regulator exam, audit, or other relevant control execution and review of the KYC Products.
• Govern vendor services and risks associated to KYC Products.

Job Requirements

• AML/KYC Customer Due Diligence Expert (ACAMS or CAMS certified preferred)
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification (Product Owner/Management experience) or Agile delivery experience
• Experience with legacy integrations
• U.S. and Canadian Regulations
• KYC individual and KYC business entity knowledge
• Understanding of the full KYC lifecycle