Product Owner

WHY JOIN THE JSE? The JSE recognises that its success and strength depend on the quality of its employees. We are committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and high standards of performance. Our employee wellness programme is designed to encourage work-life balance for employees. We naturally seek to empower staff and encourage diversity and opportunities for all. Introduction To maximise business value through representing the voice of the customer and acting as an ambassador for issuer regulation, ensuring the right products and services are delivered to Issuer Regulation and its customers (internal and external) within regulatory requirements and obligations whilst balancing the risk the JSE faces and the need to be business enabling whilst achieving the JSE strategic priorities. Ensuring that the issuer regulation team as well as our regulated entities are prepared and ready for the implementation of strategic JSE initiatives that impact them by using experience and knowledge to drive change. Business and Financial Results Management and DeliveryProvide thought leadership and input into the Issuer Regulation Divisional strategy.Provide input into divisional budget to meet requirements and targets. Manage and develop all LPM deliverables for Issuer Regulation Division, Capex budgets and business cases, ensuring continued compliance to targets for ROI and productivity. Monitor expenses against allocated Capital budgets ensuring cost-effective ways of achieving departmental goals.Manage and prioritise the Product Backlog in collaboration with the Issuer Regulation team in accordance with business value and customer requirements.Implement departmental IT strategy by ensuring there are business and project release plans in place, monitor activities according to plans, ensure execution of deliverables within agreed timelines, identify cross dependencies between plans and take corrective action when required.Ensure the existence of a shared vision for IR Solutions and be the champion for realising this vision through the delivery of the right products to customers (internal & external).Manage all and ensure continuous communication to stakeholders and clients regarding progress and manage their expectations including making trade-offs where required.Enforce and maintain minimum set of divisional Business Continuity and Recovery procedures, Disaster Recovery checklists and documents, and coordinate IR team member participation and responsibilities during mandated internal and Disaster Recovery test execution.Stakeholder Relationship ManagementUnderstand clients' needs by listening to their needs and influencing the outcomes to meet the requirements within project constraints whilst still protecting the JSE project delivery.Build long-term relationships and networks with stakeholders through effective communication, holding regular stakeholder forums, continuous engagement, and collaboration.Provide training to internal and external parties on new and amendments to Issuer Regulation systems.Manage all communication with Regulated entities on systems and business continuity events requirements.Process ManagementGather requirements from internal and external parties on Issuer Regulation systems, develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that they are clearly understood by the various groups of stakeholders (e.g., development teams, customers, support teams, etc.).Translate functional strategy into department delivery strategy for IT systems, project plans, backlogs, and deliverables. Develop user readiness and communication approach and plan and monitor progress against plan.Identify risks and issues to the project or market readiness by continuously being in touch with stakeholders for the project to ensure the right mitigation is in place.Quality assure documentation provided to clients to ensure it meets JSE corporate branding and project standard and avoid ambiguity to clients.Produce status reports to monitor readiness to check on track against timelines.Coordinate the market-facing activities by ensuring various activities and business scenarios are executed to track progress and assess readiness internally and externally.Actively participate and prepare accurate and concise IR inputs required for Programme Increment (PI) or Big Room Planning.Prepare and conduct Iteration Planning sessions by reviewing and reprioritising items on the backlog.Compile and maintain the IR technology program vision, roadmap, and content presentations.Collaborate with other Product Owners to understand, manage, and coordinate cross dependencies.Team ManagementCollaborating across teams, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program.Transformation and Innovation ManagementBuild a culture of improvement to ensure optimisation of the function as business demands change by encouraging and recognising appropriate ideas.Optimise and improve systems and work processes to drive productivity and reduce costs. Analyse, research, develop and implement improvement/innovative ideas and value-adding solutions contributing to divisional and JSE results.Minimum QualificationsCommerce or Information Technology Degree. Post Graduate Qualification preferred.Member of Agile forums (preferred but not essential).Minimum of 10 years working experience in Financial Services or IT industry including at least 5 years in a lead role on projects and solutions engaging with large and diverse groups of stakeholders or as a business/product owner level.Knowledge and Skills RequiredJSE culture and valuesJSE policies and proceduresJSE vision and strategyData AnalysisJSE Human Resources policies and practicesRelevant JSE product and system knowledgeRelevant regulatory knowledgeRelevant Industry knowledgeBusiness continuity and resilience standards and proceduresAgile and DevOps knowledgeCompetency in software applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Internet, Email)Assurance/Audit core concepts and standardsDelivery Risk ManagementDivisional service offeringsHigh level understanding of Financial Market Infrastructure legal and regulatory landscapeBusiness principlesDecision-making processDiversity managementIndustry trends on products relevant to the Regulatory functionBusiness terms and definitionsBusiness writingBusiness metricsChange Management and Stakeholder ManagementSupport and empower a high performing delivery teamPrepare and present to senior leaders and external stakeholdersDecision makingIdentifying trendsChallenging the status quo with a view to improving the environment or people's understandingDrafting reportsEstablishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with peers, subordinates, and managersCreating a business planBuilding and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholdersMaintaining and producing capex budgets for the divisional IT solutionsDeveloping a client service delivery planDisplaying high level of ethics, integrity and confidentialityExcellent communication – verbal and writtenCompleting a project with constraintsDeveloping multiple creative solutionsPrepare training material and facilitate stakeholder training sessionsCollect, research and interpret information and integrate different sources of information
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