Product Owner at FNB South Africa

Are you someone who can:

• Drive business profitability in the context of cost management through Information technology solutions.
• Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness.
• Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions by resolving queries fast end effective.
• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing input to business requirements.
• Liaise and communicate the system requirements to the necessary audiences e.g., testers, developers, business analysts.
• Provide sound consulting services and recommendations based on customer and client needs, current information and trends analyses.
• Work with internal and external customers, as necessary, to analyze and provide feedback on technical and functional requirements.
• Monitor changes in legislation, regulations, initiatives and relevant industry practices.
• Ensure drafting and implementation of appropriate interventions.
• Ensure compliance with audit requirements.
• Analyze the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement of system functional and technical application.
• Ensure business effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering and ensuring the effective implementation of information technology solutions.
• Support Quality Assurance to test activities and to identify and correct issues and work with development team to brainstorm and prototype new ideas to stimulate innovation.
• Integrate business information, compare, analyse and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision-making purposes.
• Collaborate with other business units (Operations, Business analysts, Implementation, etc.) as necessary on System (technical and functional) projects.
• Explore ways to constantly improve quality of existing services, processes and systems in order to be more efficient.
• Manage own development to increase own competencies.
• Provision of training on current systems as and when required.

You will be an ideal candidate if you have the following:

• Degree or Diploma and required Certification.
• 3+ years relevant in a similar environment.
• An excellent understanding of the overall business

Key Responsibilities:        

• Technical Specialist which is the custodian for Operational Support, Change Management and ongoing maintenance of the solution
• Technical Product Ambassador during all phases of the product lifecycle and instrumental in design.
• Partnership with business teams (practice owners & sponsors) by evaluating the full solution
• Own vender relationship and alignment
• Collaboration with other Technical Product Owners to evolve a collective solution
• Prioritising backlog items
• Actively manage customer roadmaps and technical requirements