Product Owner/Business Analyst

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Agile Product Owner in Summit, NJ(Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proactive, independent self-starter, who can work in collaboration with the product and cross functional teams and partners.
• Document current flows and future flows from user experience.
• Knowledge of JIRA/Confluence application for Agile development.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate ideas to diverse business and technical audiences.
• Proficiency with MS Office software products including MS Project, Power Point, Word, Excel, Visio, SharePoint, and TEAMS.
• Schedule and lead project meetings as needed, publishing agendas, notes and minutes.
• Experience navigating heavily matrixed organizations, including multiple business lines.
• 5+ years of Business Systems Data and Business Systems Designing experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Banking experience.
• Understand the systems impacted by project.
• Understand the flow end to end (not just technical), customer, operations, sales, etc.
• Know how to write user stories.
• Know how to translate requirements to user stories.
• Know how to work in an agile environment.
• Represent “product owner” during sprints.
• Communicate well in multiple audiences.
• Explain how the systems interact with each other (not from a techie perspective, but from a business perspective).
• Communicate business deliverables from the business perspective.
• Communicate with the business and or technology.
• Find out information from multiple sources, is unafraid to ask questions or ask for help.
• A self-starter.

What You Will Be Doing

• Create user stories & Process Flows.
• Review User stories with Project team.
• Update and maintain user stories in JIRA.
• Attend daily sprints, backlog review, playbacks, etc.
• Lead complex initiatives to provide technological solutions with broad impact for cross functional businesses and technology teams.
• Act as a key participant in providing strategic business solutions to companywide technology initiatives.
• Evaluate highly complex business problems and provide subject matter knowledge proficiency for technology initiatives.
• Define and lead detailed research on business and technology requests to develop efficient and accurate functional requirements.
• Make decisions in highly complex and multifaceted situations requiring solid understanding of domain and technology applications, and which influence companywide technology solutions.
• Lead project or systems documentation, and monitor and manage project schedules and deliverables.
• Collaborate and consult with business and technology teams to provide comprehensive technological solutions for complex business problems.
• Ensure communication and information flow between business and technology teams.