Position: Senior Product Owner for Investment Operations
Company: Simcorp
Experience required: 5y
Category: Product Manager
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Your qualifications **

Strong knowledge with Post-Trade processing, especially with Corporate Actions, SWIFT and/or Reconciliation management
Strategic mindset and strong analytical skills with focus on business outcome and complete offers
Experience in business and system analysis, stakeholder management, backlog prioritization
Strong facilitator and presentation skills
Ability to multitask
A positive spirit but with authority to "control" an uncontrolled inflow of backlog items
Ability and willingness to encourage and motivate teams and peers, drive improvements across the Product Owners community
Fluent in English
Experience working with Simcorp Dimension or similar Investment Management systems will be an advantage
Personal qualities: proactive, fast-learner, high-quality mindset, responsible
A degree in Finance, Economics and similar alongside experience in the financial services sector
**
The position **

The value proposition of an Investment Operations offer is to provide investment decisions based on accurate consolidated positions and valuations. Investment Operations offer consists of aligned and empowered teams with motivated individuals working in an Agile setup.

**The Product Owner (PO) has ownership of specific business areas and provides input into the overall backlog. For the specific business area, the PO will need to: **

Own (build, refine, maintain, and prioritize) the product backlog in collaboration with the Offer Manager
Understand user needs through interaction with client end users 
Support pre-sales, implementation and customer services as an SME in your domain 
Understand the commercial position of the business and the entire delivery value chain 
Proactively secure alignment of functional dependencies and priorities with POs inside and outside of the Offer and Offer Line.
Be an expert and the "go-to" person on the functionality/areas you are responsible for 
Own the functional dialogue with clients 
 
**In addition, the PO works with development team(s) and will be required to: **

Ensure reliable and continuous release of value-adding solutions 
Assist in backlog preparation including assisting in building, refining, and maintaining the team backlog including defects and enablers 
Keep process of user story creation, refinement going and time adequate (just in time story elaboration) 
Facilitate user story "Acceptance Criteria" and ensure that the appropriate acceptance tests are included in feature delivery
Involve relevant stakeholders - both internally and externally
Share the organization's vision, answer the team's questions and listen to suggestions about adding, deleting, changing, or improving the user's goal 
Apply Agile principles to your work, encourage teams to follow them, leading Agility by example
 
**About Us**
SimCorp is a leading provider of investment management solutions to the world’s largest asset managers, fund managers, asset servicers, pension and insurance funds, wealth managers, banks and sovereign wealth funds.

Here you will get to work with skilled and supportive colleagues. We are more than 1900 employees from 50+ nationalities dedicated to supporting our 200+ clients across the globe.

We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view, together we’re building a culture where difference is valued. You will be part of a success story and a company that continues to grow, offering a lot of challenging and interesting opportunities.