About the Role
Support the technology platforms of multiple lines of business within the Commercial Capital business.Understand the needs of the business, create artifacts to document the needs and requirements, and collaborate with the technology team to implement technology solutions through an agile process.
Responsibilities
- Gathering information from stakeholders, customers and users to understand functional goals
- Prioritizing product featuresbased on what is feasible to do and what is desired
- Leading Sprint planning meetings
- Receiving and providing feedback during Sprints
- Making decisions to solve problems (team backlog) that occur during development
- Accepting user stories
- Assessing developing versions of the product to recommend adjustments
- Collaborating with the development team throughout the process
- Overseeing product-related market research, sales and marketing for the product
- Working directly with system end users within the business to understand their needs for a solution
- At least 4 working hours overlap with US (many of the business teams they get inputs from will be in the US)
- Developing a deep level knowledge and understanding of both the business and the technology products supported
- Carefully documenting both current state and future state through a combination of process flow diagrams, logic diagrams, and narrative agile user stories
- Envisioning and creating low fidelity wireframes to illustrate application flow, user experience, and functionality
- Designing effective business solutions to business problems, and translating this into technology requirements
- Working closely with system end users to validate requirements, test and confirm functionality created, and validate that implemented solutions have met the business needs
- Partnership with technology for the appropriategrooming of users stories, ensuring a complete understanding of the needed capabilities, and validating completed designs
- Partnership with other Product Owners, Business Analysts from both within the product and other products to ensure holistic solutions are achieved for initiatives that are across multiple products
- Identification, analysis, and reporting of key metrics and business case level financials to justify impact of projects
- Data analysis (using SQL statements against a SQL database) to understand current data to properly understand historical usage, data types, etc.
Key Skillsets include:
- Previous experience with Distribution Finance and/or AIMS would be great
- QA texting experience with Java strongly desired, especially if done on an internal or external web-based application (if someone has both Java and COBOL, that would be exceptional)
- User experience and/or agile experience with story writing desired
- Scrum master experience could also be considered if above experience cannot be found
- Experience with internal business software applications desired (i.e., finance, billing, collections, underwriting)
- Financial services experience desired but not required
- Strong verbal and written communications skills
- Experience working in an agile software development environment
- Strong experience in problem solving
- Strong experience working with end users to solicit requirements and current state analysis
- Expert in Agile user story writing / creation ability to create detailed user stories from the perspective of the user while detailing all requirements in acceptance criteria
- Process Flow diagram experience
- Creation of low fidelity wireframes
- Able to understand complex business situations and problems
- Very strong verbal and written communication skill
- Ability to work closely with end users in the United States
- Database experience and ability to write basic SQL statements
- Data analysis abilities
- Experience performing database queries/analysis experience
- Financial services experience desired but not required
Essential Qualifications
- Ability to think strategically, implement, and deliver business objectives
- Ability to negotiate, influence, and collaborate to build successful relationships
- Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills; proven ability to engage and influence senior technology and business executives
- Driven, confident, organized and an accomplished problem solver
- Bachelor's Degree in related field required
- 9 years or more of demonstrated relevant experience with hands on experience creating requirements documentation, user stories, process flow diagrams, andwireframes
- Experience in the financial / banking industry (experience in commercial banking and asset based lending preferred)
- Experience working directly with end users to collect information and requirements
Desired Qualifications
- Preferred certification CSPO or PSPO
- Strong Analytical skills
- Flexibility to work in different shifts
Market Skill and Certifications:
- 3+ years of Product Management experience, product development experience
- Good SQL skills
- Experience with Banking, Finance, Risk, Regulatory Reporting data platforms and technologies.
- Broad experience with Banking applications, products, technology architecture and systems integration experience in consumer and small business banking, consumer lending, commercial banking and wealth and investment management
- Virtual leadership experience with ability to effectively drive results, provide feedback/direction, and manage and build relationships with leaders and team members in a geographically dispersed team environment, including internationally
- Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment
- Advanced Microsoft Office (especially Excel and PowerPoint) skills
- Agile product management
- Experience working in an agile software development environment
- Strong experience in problem solving
- Strong experience working with end users to solicit requirements and current state analysis
- Expert in Agileuser story writing/ creation ability to create detailed user stories from the perspective of the user while detailing all requirements in acceptance criteria
- Process Flow diagram experience
- Creation of low fidelity wireframes
- Able to understand complex business situations and problems
- Very strong verbal and written communication skill
- Ability to work closely with end users in the United States
- Data analysis abilities
