Product Owner – Credit/Financial Services (Cape Town)
Remuneration: | Market related |
Location: | Cape Town, Southern Suburbs |
Job level: | Mid |
Type: | Permanent |
Reference: | #HCH-1697 |
Company: | HomeChoice |
Job description
The ideal candidate for this role will have a technical background, be delivery focused and familiar with e-commerce concepts. In conjunction with these, the ideal candidate will also have experience in delivering credit/financial services products in a retail environment.
Here’s what you can expect to be doing in the role
- Represent key business areas in evaluating, prioritising, and implementing technology solutions to support’s the business objectives of digital revenue growth
- Collaborate with development teams to produce technically focused user stories, enabling them to deliver value in an effective manner
- Provide a support function to scrum teams by managing the product backlog, facilitating daily stand ups and go lives
- Manage stakeholders, ensuring consensus is reached between delivering short term gains vs investing in long term strategic goals
- Identify and drive continuous improvements against the key credit metrics
- Produce wireframes and work with creative teams to define the UI
A little about who you are
- Retail credit and/or Fintech experience essential, with a recent large, successful credit system implementation advantageous
- Strong organisational and project management skills, able to work well under pressure where multiple tasks are needing to be run concurrently
- Comfortable leading solution design processes and champion/challenger testing with customers
- Familiar with API development and cross-platform integrations, experience with bots and automation tools highly advantageous
- Experience with designing and implementing functionality across multiple systems, including web-based, and mobile solutions
- Data-oriented, using data/analytics to make informed decisions
- Excellent problem solving and decision-making skill; deals well with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
- Clear sense of accountability and ownership
- Degree/diploma in computer science, engineering or similar relevant field
- Minimum of three years’ working experience as a product owner. CSPO qualification advantageous
- In-depth knowledge of agile process and principles
Benefits
- Provident fund (included in CTC)
- Flexible working hours
- Café and lounge area
- Staff restaurant with a variety of healthy meal options
Posted on 29 Jul 12:17