Product Owner Projects - Northern Suburbs, South Africa - Curo Fund Services (Pty) Ltd.

Curo Fund Services (Pty) Ltd.
Curo Fund Services (Pty) Ltd.
Verified Company
Northern Suburbs, South Africa

3 weeks ago

Thabo Mthembu

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A Bellville based financial services company is seeking a product owner to maximise the value of the product resulting from work of the development team.


RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Have a good understanding of the organisation's goals and objectives
  • Together with the business architect and relevant business areas, understand product strategy, new opportunities, areas for improvement and client needs
  • Collate change requests, project work, strategic initiatives and maintenance items in a central backlog that is prioritised together with key stakeholders
  • Manage the product backlog, including:
  • Clearly expressing product backlog items
  • Ordering the items in the product backlog to best achieve goals and missions
  • Optimising the value of the work that the development team performs
  • Ensuring that the product backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the scrum team will work on next
  • Ensuring the development team understands items in the product backlog to the level needed
  • Ensure that the upcoming sprint backlog items are prioritised and defined to an appropriate level of detail and completeness to enable development work to commence
  • Share goals, scope, and product domain with team members
Third-party fund administration requires expertise. Curo Fund Services is a specialist services partner. We administer South African Investment Managers' domestic & foreign securities and perform a host of tailored administration functions.

We are a proudly South African investment administration services business, providing investment management solutions to leading investment providers for more than a decade.

We aim to remain the #1 Investment Administration partner of choice in South Africa.

  • Prevent changes from impacting sprint goals, and review scope when new items need to be added
  • Assist with production support items by resolving where possible or prioritising within the team against the other sprint scope
  • Provide demos of new and existing functionality to clients, key stakeholders and users
  • Effectively lead a team, including recruitment, mentoring, training, career development and performance assessment

COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

  • Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.
  • Certified Product Owner
  • Experience in the financial industry required
  • Experienced in report writing up to executive level
  • Experience partnering with other departments to achieve targets
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to nontechnical and technical audience members
  • Experience working in a teamoriented, collaborative environment
  • Strong customer relationship building and maintaining skills
  • Excellent leadership and people management skills

ATTRIBUTES REQUIRED:


  • Excellent client service orientation
  • Being able to communicate effectively and maintain effective working relationships with team members and senior managers
  • Excellent organisational skills, including the ability to plan, prioritise and organise self and team tasks in order to achieve objectives and targets
  • Decisive and must be able to use initiative to make quick decisions to resolve problems and overcome obstacles delaying delivery
  • Analytical, results driven, responsible, high stress tolerance, process driven, attention to detail, and conflict management skills
  • Selfdriven, motivated, goal oriented and able to take full responsibility for work.
  • Focused on creating a positive work climate and culture to energise teams and give meaning to work, minimise work disruption and maximise team productivity
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