Product Owner - Sandton - JSE Limited

    JSE Limited
    JSE Limited Sandton

    1 week ago

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    Description

    The JSE seeks to empower its employees, fostering a culture of continuous learning and high standards of performance. The employee wellness programme encourages work-life balance.

    Introduction

    This role represents the voice of the customer, acting as an ambassador for issuer regulation. Key responsibilities include ensuring regulatory compliance, delivering products and services to internal and external customers, and balancing risk with business enablement.

    • Lead strategic planning and direction for the Issuer Regulation Division.
    • Develop divisional budgets to meet targets and manage LPM deliverables, capex budgets, and business cases.
    • Prioritise and manage the Product Backlog based on business value and customer requirements.
    • Implement departmental IT strategy by developing business and project release plans, monitoring activities, and executing deliverables within agreed timelines.
    • Ensure the existence of a shared vision for IR Solutions and champion the delivery of the right products to customers.
    • Manage stakeholder expectations, providing regular communication and making trade-offs when required.
    • Enforce and maintain minimum set of divisional Business Continuity and Recovery procedures.

    • Understand clients' needs by listening and influencing outcomes within project constraints.
    • Build long-term relationships with stakeholders through effective communication, holding regular forums and engagement.
    • Provide training to internal and external parties on new and amended systems.
    • Manage all communication with Regulated entities on systems and business continuity events.

    • Gather requirements from internal and external parties on Issuer Regulation systems and develop specifications.
    • Translate functional strategy into department delivery strategy for IT systems, project plans, backlogs, and deliverables.
    • Identify risks and issues to the project or market readiness by continuously engaging with stakeholders.
    • Quality assure documentation to ensure it meets corporate branding and project standards.
    • Produce status reports to monitor readiness against timelines.
    • Coordinate market-facing activities to track progress and assess readiness internally and externally.
    • Participate in Programme Increment (PI) or Big Room Planning, preparing accurate and concise IR inputs.
    • Prepare and conduct Iteration Planning sessions, reviewing and reprioritising items on the backlog.
    • Compile and maintain the IR technology program vision, roadmap, and content presentations.
    • Collaborate with other Product Owners to understand, manage, and coordinate cross dependencies.

    • Define and implement improvement stories to increase velocity and quality of the program.

    • Build a culture of improvement to ensure optimisation of the function as business demands change.
    • Optimise and improve systems and work processes to drive productivity and reduce costs.

    Key Qualifications:

    • Commerce or Information Technology Degree. Post Graduate Qualification preferred.
    • Member of Agile forums (preferred but not essential).
    • Minimum of 10 years working experience in Financial Services or IT industry including at least 5 years in a lead role on projects and solutions engaging with large and diverse groups of stakeholders.

    Required Skills:

    • JSE culture and values
    • JSE policies and procedures
    • JSE vision and strategy
    • Data Analysis
    • JSE Human Resources policies and practices
    • Relevant JSE product and system knowledge
    • Relevant regulatory knowledge
    • Relevant Industry knowledge
    • Business continuity and resilience standards and procedures
    • Agile and DevOps knowledge
    • Competency in software applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Internet, Email)
    • Assurance/Audit core concepts and standards
    • Delivery Risk Management
    • Divisional service offerings
    • High level understanding of Financial Market Infrastructure legal and regulatory landscape
    • Business principles
    • Decision-making process
    • Diversity management
    • Industry trends on products relevant to the Regulatory function
    • Business terms and definitions
    • Business writing
    • Business metrics
    • Change Management and Stakeholder Management
    • Support and empower a high performing delivery team
    • Prepare and present to senior leaders and external stakeholders
    • Decision making
    • Identifying trends
    • Challenging the status quo with a view to improving the environment or people's understanding
    • Drafting reports
    • Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with peers, subordinates, and managers
    • Creating a business plan
    • Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
    • Maintaining and producing capex budgets for the divisional IT solutions
    • Developing a client service delivery plan
    • Displaying high level of ethics, integrity and confidentiality
    • Excellent communication – verbal and written
    • Completing a project with constraints
    • Developing multiple creative solutions
    • Prepare training material and facilitate stakeholder training sessions
    • Collect, research and interpret information and integrate different sources of information
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