JOB DETAILS
CIT is looking for a highly motivated, experienced, and versatile Product Owner with Investment Banking domain knowledge and strong business analytical and technical skills to join the team. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team of highly skilled, diverse, and technical professionals and contribute to the department’s priorities. The position will be based in Chennai, India.
Roles and Responsibilities
• The product owner plays a key role in driving the success of a product by aligning its development with customer needs and business objectives, coordinating cross-functional efforts, and ensuring that the product delivers value to both the users and the organization
• Work with Finance and Accounting clients to understand product requirements and manage expectations for delivery
• Develop a clear vision and strategy for the product, including defining goals and target audience
• Create product roadmaps that outline the features, enhancements, and updates to be implemented over time, prioritizing them based on strategic business needs
• Work closely with cross-functional teams in development, design, QA, information security, cloud, etc., to ensure alignment and successful completion of product development
• Define product scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely value delivery to clients
• Gather and prioritize product requirements from various stakeholders, balancing competing interests and constraints to deliver maximum customer value
• Develop and document business cases, business processes and workflows, requirements, use cases, test plans, test strategies, and operational procedures and plans
• Actively manage the product backlog and prioritize business needs
• Monitor the development process, guide the design and development team, and make decisions to ensure the product is delivered on time and within budget
• Work across multiple functional and technical teams to initiate and manage product requirements (Functional and Technical)
• Organize and lead status meetings; prepare and track progress
• Perform delivery planning, manage risks and issues, and correct plan deviations
• Manage expectations for deliverables and client communications and help implement effective product oversight and governance
• Implement a well-defined management process and ensure ongoing process improvement to apply best practices for Agile methodology
• Ensure that each team member is fully engaged, makes a meaningful contribution, and encourages a sustainable pace with high levels of quality output
• Develop training materials and potentially train the users on the newly developed products
Selection Criteria
• Master’s degree in computer science, business administration, or finance
• 7+ years’ experience working with IT products. At least 2+ years of experience working as a Product Owner for large implementations
• Experience & knowledge in SDLC, SCRUM/Kanban, and Agile methodologies are required
• Relevant certification is a plus
• Excellent working experience in investment banking, private equity, and capital markets is a plus
• Familiarity with Financial products, such as Loans, Guarantees, Equity, Blended Finance, Securitization, etc.
• Strong product visioning and facilitation skills to lead requirements elicitation workshops planning and preparation, presentation, knowledge capture, and follow-up
• Experience working with multi-function project/product teams, including Developers, Business Analysts, and QA Personnel
• Excellent presentation and documentation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, including collaboration and team building
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands
• Solid understanding of and proven experience using appropriate tools: Agile Project Management tools such as Azure DevOps or equivalent
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and experience interacting with business and IT individuals