Snr Specialist: Business Analyst (Product Owner) at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

The purpose of the job is to perform the role of a Business Analyst - Product Owner for the various systems and business units within the LibFin environment. The Product Owner will be responsible for providing specialist advice and support in the planning, managing and monitoring the implementation of the Agile capability activities and processes in order to deliver on approved operational plans in an effective and efficient manner.

Key Responsibilities

•  Maintain and build relationships for purposes of expectation management, knowledge sharing and integration.
• Systematically identify, analyse and resolve existing and anticipated problems.
• Enable self and others to achieve advanced levels of professional/technical knowledge and skills.
• Deep understanding of LibFin business and financial markets to effectively facilitate implementation of prioritised features.
• Plan for the organisation of work outputs and process improvement activities in light of a specific situational context related to the area of specialisation.
• Drive the effective implementation of IT governance and new business initiatives / enhancements.
• Manage, plan and coordinate activities associated with the identification, prioritisation and resolution of reported problems.
• Drive capability enhancements to perform on-going monitoring and ad hoc investigations to answer questions from the business that supports decision making and prioritisation.

Additional Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and implementation of the Agile capability including Agile governance tools, methods, artefacts, templates and methodologies.
• Drives the vision and end-to-end view for the capabilities that are to be built and maintained.
• Create awareness to ensure the effective implementation of changes in policy, laws, regulations and associated industry practices.
• Provide specialist expertise and advice to internal/external customers, that builds strong relationships.

Minimum Experience

• Years and industry of experience required for the role (minimum and preferred).
• Minimum of 5 years related work experience.
• Must have a good understanding of financial products in the South African market.
• Must have experience with the configuration and maintenance of trading systems.
• Must have derivatives exposure and knowledge of regularly traded derivatives products.
• Exposure to the insurance industry would be beneficial.
• Exposure to system development would be beneficial.
• Strong understanding of SDLC.

Minimum Qualifications

• Any relevant tertiary qualification (degree) in Finance/Actuarial Science/Information Systems/Computer Science.