Product Owner

Job#: 2081553

Job Description:

Product Owner:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Product Owner/Advisor to join our team and execute on a critical initiative for our client in the Financial Industry. In this role, you will be responsible for managing customer and stakeholder relationships, facilitating touchpoints, and tracking actions to completed outcomes. You will play a crucial role in connecting disparate systems, stakeholders, and organizations, while acting as an early warning system to identify patterns and surface issues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage customer and stakeholder relationships, facilitating touchpoints, and tracking actions to completed outcomes.
• Lead conversations, understand customer feedback, and resolve issues effectively.
• Make connections between disparate systems, stakeholders, and organizations, acting as an early warning system to identify patterns and surface issues.
• Serve as a technical and procedural consultant to the application development teams.
• Act as the primary customer point of contact for the initiative.
• Utilize Agile-oriented systems such as JIRA to review functional and non-functional requirements and translate them into technical capabilities, patterns, and service needs, and track these requirements to completion.
• Demonstrate proficiency in Microsoft Excel to analyze, compare, and update disparate data sources. Usage and maintenance of complex formulas is a must.
• Use, maintain, and update PowerAutomate workflows, in conjunction with source systems and Excel, to perform bulk data activities.
• Identify trends and patterns in the data to provide valuable insights.
• Schedule, attend, moderate, and track actions for multiple stakeholder meetings and engagements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field.
• Experience operating and executing in large scale programs
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working with Agile-oriented systems such as JIRA.
• Expert level proficiency in Microsoft Excel, with the ability to analyze and manipulate data using complex formulas.
• Experience with PowerAutomate workflows and bulk data activities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage with stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.