Agile Product Owner - BSA/AML

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Job Description:

At Regions, the Agile Product Owner represents business stakeholders to elicit, understand, analyze, document, refine and communicate business needs, so that business and/or technical delivery teams can build effective solutions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partners with sponsors, stakeholders, and Information Technology to facilitate, define and document relevant business processes, gaining an understanding of the needs, measures, and risks and controls for the improvement area
• Works with management and other stakeholders to understand and validate business strategy and vision and customer needs
• Assists with project level plans related to schedule, scope and resources
• Works independently on small to medium complexity efforts, or in support of a Senior or Lead on larger efforts
• Identifies, assesses, tracks and mitigates issues and risks at multiple levels.
• Participates in validation and testing of features prior to end user acceptance
• Provides just-in-time story elaboration to designers, business analysts, developers, testers and others to develop, execute and release in alignment with program and/or product roadmaps
• Serves as the content authority on an Agile team by maintaining a prioritized backlog of stories and providing continual business guidance for the execution team
• Reviews, and when appropriate, accepts and prioritizes feedback and new requirements from stakeholders
• Reviews and accepts or declines output of development to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been completed
• Works with the business process owners to manage and track benefits, adoption and risks to operations

This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business or a related field and five (5) years of relevant experience in process improvement, project delivery, business/requirements analysis or business operations/product line

Preferences

• SAFe Practitioner (SP), SAFe Agilist, or SAFe Product Owner/Manager certification

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks under pressure
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Experience in Process Engineering methodologies and Change Management practices
• Familiarity or working knowledge with multiple technical software delivery methodologies (i.e., Agile, Waterfall)
• Proven ability to utilize data and analytics to formulate recommendations, solve business problems, and drive business improvements
• Strong customer service orientation

Additional job detail and preferred experience for this specific opportunity

• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment and strong organization and communication skills
• Lead intake and prioritization of development work aligned to business/technology goals
• Knowledge of OFAC, BSA/AML, sanctions compliance, and financial crimes risk management
• Knowledge of sanctions list management, fuzzy matching algorithms and screening tuning
• Experience with large-scale screening platform transformations or cloud modernization initiatives
• Experience with sanctions screening platforms
• Experience JIRA
• Experience with Confluence
• Experience with Microsoft Teams
• Experience with SharePoint
• Experience with Microsoft 365 Suite

Regions will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position. Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

This position is intended to be onsite, now or in the near future. Associates will have regular work hours, including full days in the office three or more days a week. The manager will set the work schedule for this position, including in-office expectations. Regions will not provide relocation assistance for this position, and relocation would be at your expense. This position must be within a reasonable driving distance to Birmingham, AL, Atlanta, GA or Charlotte, NC.

Position Type

Full time

Compensation Details

Pay ranges are job specific and are provided as a point-of-market reference for compensation decisions. Other factors which directly impact pay for individual associates include: experience, skills, knowledge, contribution, job location and, most importantly, performance in the job role. As these factors vary by individuals, pay will also vary among individual associates within the same job.

The target information listed below is based on the Metropolitan Statistical Area Market Range for where the position is located and level of the position.

Job Range Target:

Minimum:

$100,634.05 USD

Median:

$128,130.00 USD

Incentive Pay Plans:

This job may participate in an annual discretionary bonus plan.

Benefits Information

Regions offers a benefits package that is flexible, comprehensive and recognizes that "one size does not fit all" for benefits-eligible associates. Listed below is a synopsis of the benefits offered by Regions for informational purposes, which is not intended to be a complete summary of plan terms and conditions.

• Paid Vacation/Sick Time

• 401K with Company Match

• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits

• Disability Benefits

• Health Savings Account

• Flexible Spending Account

• Life Insurance

• Parental Leave

• Employee Assistance Program

• Associate Volunteer Program

Please note, benefits and plans may be changed, amended, or terminated with respect to all or any class of associate at any time. To learn more about Regions’ benefits, please click or copy the link below to your browser.

Location Details

Riverchase Complex North Building

Location:

Hoover, Alabama

Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans

Job applications at Regions are accepted electronically through our career site for a minimum of five business days from the date of posting. Job postings for higher-volume positions may remain active for longer than the minimum period due to business need and may be closed at any time thereafter at the discretion of the company.