The purpose of the role is to plan, design, develop and launch Personal Share Portfolios (PSP) and associated business processes across the Investment platform.
Key responsibilities
- Ensuring continual appreciation of the broader business context by understanding industry and market dynamics, and our strategic goals.
- Prepare and facilitate requirements elicitation workshops with stakeholders to define business requirements.
- Creation of user stories.
- Consult and develop product backlog with Product Owners.
- Guide the development teams to break down large and complex user stories into simplified versions for execution.
- Test the user stories for accuracy and compliance to ensure undisputed acceptance and validation of stories.
- Conduct post-implementation review and provide feedback to the stakeholders.
- Participate in sprint planning, daily scrums, testing, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
- Analysis of business, system and functional requirements, including as-is to-be analysis, impact analysis of changes required to existing systems and processes.
- Consult and coordinate with key stakeholders across Business and IT teams.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile information conflicts, break down high-level information into their constituent details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true business needs.
- Work closely with internal Group-wide teams, external teams and vendors to deliver a successful outcome.
- Assist in Production support to solve incidents or document requests in conjunction with the IT and Business operational teams as part of the warranty phase.
Qualifications
Relevant Commerce degree / diploma in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Investment Management or Business Management or related fields.Business Analysis certification / qualification.Agile methodologyKnowledge and Experience
A deep understanding of investment products.A deep understanding of South African Investment Platforms and platform operations.An understanding of investment banking as it relates to PSP platform providers.Requires a minimum of 7 years of industry experience, including at least 2 years of experience in building PSP solutions.Experience in Web-based (UI) and Oracle applications.Experience in building successful relationships and working collaboratively across departmental teams and third-party vendors.Experience working in a fast-paced, proactive and delivery-focused environment.JIRA and Confluence experience or related tools are a plus.Excellent verbal and written communication skills.Computer Literacy (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Visio), with MS Excel at least at intermediate level.Competencies
Communicating with impact : Communicates effectively in both the written and verbal format, delivering clear, succinct messages.Customer service : Commits to achieving high-quality results and provides a prompt, suitable and personalised service to customer’s that meets their needs. Take personal accountability for delivery.Driving for excellence : Approaches work in an orderly and systematic manner to ensure the achievement of high-quality customer service.Analytical thinking : Understands a situation or problem by breaking it into smaller pieces and tracing the implications of a situation in a step-by-step way.Resilience : Responds to stressful situations in a calm and proactive manner and keeps self and team focused on balancing personal energy with business result.Teamwork and cooperation : Cooperates with others to accomplish common goals.Persuading and influencing : The capacity to persuade, convince and influence others for the purpose of achieving desired results.Leading change : Continually seeks and encourages others to see opportunities for new and innovative approaches to solving organisational problems.Trust and integrity : Shows sincerity, honesty and consistency in words and actions.