Commercial and Finance Business Lead (Junior) - Sandton at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

• As a Business Lead within the Finance and Commercial team at Vitality, you will be responsible for co-ordinating the various finance, commercial and project activities, partner relationships and project and analytical reporting within the finance and commercial team space.
• You will be responsible for understanding and creating the product vision, business case and product and finance specs on allocated initiatives as well as maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team by managing the Product Backlog.
• Responsibilities include partner co-ordination on owned-product projects as well as integration of partners including onboarding of partners. You will also be responsible for partner, finance, campaign and product reporting setup and maintenance on allocated products.

Key Outputs

• Work with Product Management and business operations to understand and create the business case and product spec
• Work with solution team to understand solution and customer journey options
• Work with Operational Team for operational readiness
• Work with Marketing Team to create product marketing strategy
• Work closely with the Development Teams to drive product delivery:
• Act as the single decision maker giving direction to the team
• Prioritize and manage the Product Backlog
• Emerge Product Backlog Items (PBIs) together with the team
• Drive just-in-time PBI elaboration
• Elaborate product requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria
• Order the PBIs to best achieve product goals and missions
• Optimize the value of the work the Development Team performs
• Ensure that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the team will work on next
• Ensure the Development Team understands PBIs to the level needed
• Preform Backlog Refinement to prune and maintain the Product Backlog
• Ensure Definition of Ready (DoR) is met for all PBIs
• Drive Product Planning Workshops and Release Planning sessions
• Present product vision and goals for each release / sprint
• Present prioritized PBIs to the team in Sprint Planning
• Drive rapid product decision making
• Accept PBIs as per acceptance criteria and Definition of Done (DoD) in Sprint Reviews
• Take ownership and sign off on items developed and delivered within product portfolio.

Qualifications & Experience

• 2 to 4 years of strong analytical experience with data management function
• Project management or coordination experience advantageous
• 1 to 3 years Finance specific experience required
• Product Management/Delivery experience advantageous
• Ability to communicate effectively in multiple business areas (e.g., marketing, finance, operations, legal, systems etc.)
•  Strong relationship building skills – internal and external
• Business or Engineering degree