As a Product Delivery Professional in our Finance team you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm.
Being part of the Finance Decision & Optimization Product, you will be working in conjunction with our internal partners to deliver solutions to help the business make better pricing decisions, support budgeting, regulatory requirements, help business take informed decision on branch opening strategy based on models, modernize the model development lifecycle, automate interactive reporting data and analytics solutions, and improve processes and controls. You will play a key role in supporting the Head of Finance Product & Transformation, Finance Decision & Optimization Product Owner, Area Product Owners, Technology/Data/Design Partners, and their teams to coordinate cross-team and cross-product strategy. The Product Portfolio Operations Manager will ensure optimal efficiency is executed for the Product.
Job Responsibilities:
- Support Product Owner and Finance Transformation Office with managing requirements, dependences, risks/opportunities, status, coordinate agility office requirements and managing product epics, backlog for multiple complex features
- Drive best practices and consistency across quarterly/yearly planning and initiatives/epics
- Drive tech modernization and clearing house effort required as area product owner
- Work across area product owners for needs on data governance to build distinct plan and on swing capacity needs when a "surge" is needed
- Execute & deliver on the vision/roadmap that aligns to the objectives and key results by tracking near term sprint/kanban goals and removing impediments
- Build and maintain continuous improvement culture by driving cross-product and cross-teams efficiencies, reducing waste and improving overall dependency management
- Facilitate user acceptance testing and release planning with area product owners, agility leads and software engineer leads
- Ensure adherence to product controls and agility processes are followed as well as participates in product controls audit and resiliency planning
- Provide oversight and guidance to overall delivery across the entire product
- Manage junior team member deliverables, work prioritization, and performance management
Required qualifications, skills, and capabilities:
- 10+ years of experience in a program management or product management/owner leadership role. Banking experience in one or more US consumer credit portfolios (i.e., U.S. Mortgage, Home Equity, Credit Card, Automotive, Lease, Business Banking)
- Knowledge of the Finance process especially Pricing, and macroeconomics
- Ability to synthesize data and communicate to leadership in a concise and effective manner, both verbally and written
- Strong JIRA experience – can navigate JIRA, create Initiative/Epics/Stories and Tasks, and have an understanding of more advanced capabilities such as creating dashboards and complex queries using JQL
- 3+ years of experience working in an Agile environment and with Agile project methodologies. Excellent attention to detail and ability to direct strategy of multiple program teams concurrently
- Written and verbal communication skills – able to create executive communications / presentations to communicate status, facts, thoughts and ideas in a clear, concise, convincing and organized manner
- Flexibility and adaptability - able to quickly and smoothly change direction based upon stakeholder or management direction, while remaining extremely organized and following tight deadlines
- A strong understanding of controls, budget management, risk management, and operations. History of effective multi-tasking, expectation setting, and escalation of issues, where appropriate
- Project Management Skills -- well-organized, structured approach. Ability to achieve tight timelines on complex deliverables. Ability to manage and prioritize projects across cross-functional groups
Preferred qualifications, skills, and capabilities:
- Experience as a developer or understanding of data and tools such as SQL, Python or SAS
- Understanding of Jira Align is plus
- Knowledge of AI/ML and AWS cloud