Associate Product Owner

CGAP
CGAP

Product

Posted on Sep 18, 2026
At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd ITS Vice Presidency Context The Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) Vice Presidential Unit (VPU) enables the World Bank Group to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150+ locations. For more information on ITS, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9 v=VTFGffa1Y7w Unit Background Context: The ITS Risk Management and Analytics (ITSRA) unit enables key WBG Risk functions managed by the Risk vice-presidencies and their corporate partners such as measure and monitor credit risk, market risk, operational risk, and liquidity risk to safeguard WBG institutions’ AAA rating and reputation. The unit also engages with Treasury, WFA, and DFI to ensure proper capture, valuation, and support analytics around financial instruments and counterparties, and the risks they carry. Role Purpose: ITSRA is seeking an experienced, motivated and ambitious Business Analyst with extensive experience in Capital Markets domains with primary focus in the areas of Issuances, Valuation, Settlement and Accounting as well as knowledge of external ratings of securities and financial counterparts. Core responsibilities include (i) understand business needs as it relates to counter party credit risk management, Limits management and Compliance functions; (ii) minimize gaps, redundancies, rework, and duplication of effort by coordinating new requirements with Business Sponsors and project governance bodies, (iii) ensure that the product based solutions are executed under ITS’s strategic guidelines (technology standards, development methodology, outsourcing/offshoring… etc.), (iv) gain an in-depth understanding of the business and its underlying processes and data and provide technical leadership to the application support team post product launch (v) document business requirements in bank standard tools/templates ensuring the requirements meet quality standards, (vi) analyze requirements and various scenarios associated with each requirement, and (vii) prepare test cases, perform systems integration testing, document test results, regression testing, and assist users with User Acceptance testing. Job Family: Information and Technology Solutions Sub Family: Product and Portfolio Management Commits to delivering products that maximize business value through the management of product design, innovation, and lifecycle in accordance with Agile processes. Collaborates with stakeholders to identify opportunities, shape demand, and ensure that technology portfolio aligns with organizational objectives. Area of focus: Product and Portfolio Management Collaborates closely with business stakeholders to identify and shape demand, strategize on opportunities, and drive the development and delivery of IT products. Oversees the entire product lifecycle to ensure services align with the organization’s strategic objectives and deliver maximum business value. Role Scope and Distinction: Experienced professional • Performs professional-level research and analyses in the field of specialization. • Proposes solutions to moderately complex problems in the field of specialization. • Seeks common ground and negotiates issues with internal and/or external clients to recommend for higher-level approval. • Provides knowledge-based guidance to more junior staff within the job area. • Requires practical application of professional knowledge at a broad-based level to complete difficult assignments. Key Responsibilities: • Act as Business Analyst for Capital Markets line of business within Treasury. Specifically, this includes Counterparty credit risk management, Limits management, Compliance, valuations of issuances/buybacks/derivatives, trade life cycle as well as applications associated with these capabilities. • Build stakeholder consensus and ensure everyone is on the same page, in agreement, and can visualize the solution being proposed • Develop business cases, requirements, use cases, test plans, test strategies, test cases, and operational procedures and plans. • Coordinate with fiduciary reviewers like Enterprise Architects, OIS by providing them the information using their artifacts and support related security testing. • Participate in the procurement of COTS solution where necessary including preparation of Request for Proposals (RFP), cost estimates, benefits realization summary, inputs for procurement committee, and IT Governance. • Ability to effectively prioritize requirements and maintain scope on a tight leash • Document business processes and workflows • Collaborate with Project Managers, Tech Leads, Solution Architects, Developers etc to determine if solutions currently exist (internally or externally) or whether new solutions are feasible to meet business requirements and meet project milestones and timelines. • Leverage rapid prototyping approaches to present as-is/to-be processes/workflows and rough designs of the proposed solution • Provide overall support to ensure the successful design, testing, and implementation of applications that support the business unit, Also, provide support in developing training materials and conducting training • Maintain a comprehensive chronological trail of requirements and agreements and actively contribute to the project change control process. Document and manage issues and actions • Participate in the evaluation of new products or initiatives to determine the technology support required • Evaluate applications and IT environments, and analyze gaps between current and desired states • Propose recommendations based on industry best practices • Coordinate with vendors and oversee their deliverables. (This includes reviewing proposed solutions and delivered code.) • Train business users on applications. • Uphold established processes and quality standards with respect to Business Analysis. • In a post-production environment troubleshoot systems and provide solutions to the business as well as the technical teams.