What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Product Owner position at PRA Group?
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Position Summary:
Responsible for supporting the Product Owner, the Junior Product Owner will act as a liaison between Operations and IT development teams, collaborating regularly with key stakeholders, analysing system performance, documenting processes, organising & completing UAT, and pro-actively leading system change initiatives.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Frequently meet with customers (Operations) to understand their needs
- Work for business area owners and stakeholders to identify business rules that must be implemented
- Solicit ideas, assess and prioritise product opportunities, both for new solutions and existing feature optimisation
- Collaborate with user departments: providing assistance, script review, and support as necessary
- Liaise with development team to identify and define valuable, usable and feasible solutions
- Provide direction and guidance to delivery team for product requirements
- Contribute a deep knowledge of the customer, data, business and industry
- Develop and maintain strong partnerships with key stakeholders across all levels of the business; leverage their insight to develop great products and identify cross-organisational synergies and dependencies
- Keep the business informed of product activities and progress to goals
- Develop and execute communication plans for partners across the organisation
- Prioritise Epic, Feature and Story Backlog
- Create & manage Product/Team Roadmap
- Demo. new functionality to business areas
- Develop plan for user acceptance testing (UAT)
- Manage UAT, organise meetings and support training efforts to ensure effectiveness of UAT initiatives
- Perform execution of test cases manually to verify actual meets expected results
- Analyse and identify defects, then report these and follow the defect cycle
- Used DEVOPS (or equivalent) to log and track defects
- Ensure all testing efforts are delivered on time, meeting company standards & goals, and satisfying SOX auditing requirements
Experience/Qualifications
Essential
- Experience facilitating working sessions between different groups of stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills leveraged to interface with business stakeholders and technical delivery resources
- Track record of exceptional team working & problem solving skills
- Ability to work with minimal oversight, balance priorities and operate proactively
- Innovative and practical
- Experience working within a regulated environment
- Advanced PC Skills, to include Excel, Word and PowerPoint
Desirable
- Awareness of business change methodologies such as lean and six sigma
- Experience working alongside Project Managers on business improvement activities
- Familiarity with Agile, Scrum and related principles and best practices
- Relevant Industry and application domain knowledge
- Demonstrated progression and growth through past career experiences on Business and IT-related projects
Compliance Responsibilities
- Understanding of governance and risk in relation to the role, especially within a regulated environment
- Keeping up to date with any regulatory changes in local region
- Ensuring adherence to and working in accordance with the PRA Group compliance policies, including participation in the management of risks
- Completion of mandatory training that may adversely affect the business, interests or reputation of any Group Company
- Understand and ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and guidelines including those governing securities activities, company law, anti-money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions; the Group’s policies and procedures; and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk and compliance matters
- Embed the Group’s Values and Group Code of Conduct to ensure adherence with the highest standards of ethics
PRA Group (UK) Ltd applies Equal Opportunities policy at all stages of recruitment and selection process. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection is carried out without regard to gender, sexual orientation, marital status, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, age or trade union membership. Those with disabilities meeting the minimum requirements for the post will be shortlisted and reasonable adjustments will be made to ensure they are not disadvantaged during the interview process.
