Product Owner (Strong Knowledge Of Vietnam Payments Ecosystem)

The role supports regional payment transformation programmes involving financial institutions operating in Vietnam and requires a strong understanding of Vietnam's domestic payment schemes, regulatory requirements, and banking practices. Minimum of 10 years' consulting experience in banking, payments, or financial services transformation projects. Banking/financial services expertise with focus on Payments, Cash Management, Transaction Banking, or Core Banking. Strong knowledge of the Vietnam payments ecosystem, including domestic payment schemes, interbank transfers, instant payments, clearing, settlement, and regulatory practices. ISO 20022 understanding covering message structures, data requirements, and transformation impacts. Finastra GPP experience or exposure to payment system implementation and modernization. Payments modernization background including hubs, ISO 20022 adoption, and operational transformation. Business analysis skills in requirements definition, Fit Gap, process design, issue management, UAT, and migration. Stakeholder engagement through workshops, interviews, and consensus building. Team leadership managing junior members, reviewing deliverables, and coordinating workstreams. Demonstrated ability to prepare high-quality executive presentations, business documentation, and analytical reports using Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel. Problem solving and communication with proven issue management capability. Flexibility to contribute beyond client delivery, including sales support, proposals, and internal operations. Payments processing knowledge in routing, validation, exception handling, repair, reconciliation, accounting, settlement, sanctions screening, AML, and fraud monitoring. Transaction Banking expertise including Cash Management, Liquidity Management, and Treasury Operations. Vendor and partner collaboration with system integrators, product teams, and operations teams. Proposal and RFP support including client presentations, estimation assumptions, and solution options. English is the primary working language. Vietnamese language skills may be beneficial when engaging directly with Vietnamese-speaking clients or business users. Japanese language proficiency is advantageous where the role requires communication with Japanese-speaking clients and stakeholders who are not fully proficient in English.