Product Owner - Tax Operations - @ ING Hubs Romania

Discover ING Hubs Romania

ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 1700 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals. 

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. 

Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca. 

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1500 colleagues active in Data Management, Touchpoint Channels & Integration, Core Banking, and Global Products. 

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.  

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work. 

We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?  

Here’s a sneak peak of what our colleagues say about working within ING Hubs Romania:

• At ING, we're building the solutions of tomorrow, today | 80% of our colleagues in Romania agree

The Mission

Wholesale Banking Data Lake, one of the largest & most complex in ING, is actively onboarding new data flows and transitioning the tactical solutions to the ING global model of storing, modelling and distributing data throughout the organization.

Within the WB Data Management Tribe, the Product Owner will work in a cross-border and cross-functional team focused on supporting the delivery of both local & regional regulatory initiatives according to the proper data governance standards. The PO will be responsible for building out, prioritizing and deliver the business requirements for the FATCA CRS & CESOP reporting in an agile way, while aligning different parties across the data delivery chain.

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 comes to tasks. Here are your daily responsibilities:

• Support the FATCA CRS & CESOP reporting process. You will keep your hands-on activity within a squad and ensure business requirements are translated in the backlog by “user stories” (what is needed, for whom and why):
• Analyze and document business processes.
• Identify data to be sourced and structured into the Data Lake
• Document requirements on data quality, data privacy, data security, and other relevant aspects of data.
• Take part in the testing phase.
• Support the data reconciliation process between various systems of records
• You will ensure the product backlog is visible, transparent, and clear. You will facilitate backlog refinement and drive the planning sessions. You will manage stakeholders by proactively communicating on timelines, impediments, and priorities. You will translate features that span multiple systems into sliced user stories for the relevant backlogs. You will prioritize operational urgencies in daily deliveries.

What you’ll bring to the team

• Experience: min 2 years in in coordinating/managing IT deliveries
• Tech stack/ knowledge: SQL

• Mandatory:

- Previous banking experience, financial reporting

- Strong analytical skills and energy of translating complexity into a clear vision and structure

- Focus on delivery through collaboration, ability to bring people together to work towards the same purpose.

- Concrete experience with working in a data & IT driven organization

- Outstanding communication skills (ability to communicate clearly, effectively & consistently in different contexts and cultures).

- Strong relationship management exposure, with prior experience working collaboratively in a cross functional team.

- Resilience and grit in handling escalations of different stakeholders with conflicting priorities

“MVP” driven, making continuous impact in a complex environment.

- Self-starter with a good ability to work in a global team across various locations.

• Nice to have:

- Good knowledge of the agile way of working

- contributing to the yearly FATCA CRS or CESOP reporting

• Foreign languages: English (Proficient)
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in economics, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field