Product Owner/Project Manager – 12 months fixed term London, England
Cashplus
Full Time
London, England
102000 - 132000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Who we are
Cashplus is a leading UK challenger bank for small businesses. We offer faster, smarter, simpler current accounts for the entrepreneurs, independent businesses and consumers that power the UK economy, yet are too often overlooked by high street banks. Since 2005, we’ve created easier ways for more than 1.6m customers to pay, bank and borrow through our user-friendly digital platform. We understand what our customers need – time and money to run their businesses and live their lives – and our secure, innovative products are designed to help, where others can’t or won’t. A true fintech pioneer, we are a fast-growing and credible UK challenger bank.
http://www.cashplus.com/
Our Values & Behaviours
Cashplus puts the fair treatment of customers at the heart of our business model. Our business goals are:
1. Becoming a bank that customers love
2. Developing brilliant, sustainable products
3. Earning an outstanding reputation
Cashplus values are:
- We innovate with purpose
- We are upfront
- We do it right
- We are all in
Individual Conduct rules:
- You must act with integrity
- You must act with due skill, care and diligence
- You must be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators.
- You must pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly.
- You must observe proper standards of market conduct
- Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers
The Role Is
The role is a hybrid role, principally to cover maternity leave for the API Product Owner but also supporting other projects within the company as a Project Manager.
The Product Owner is central to ensuring the successful delivery of products and meeting associated company objectives.
This role will sit within the API product ‘workstream’ to proactively seek input from internal and external sources in the development and delivery a product strategy and roadmap.
The workstream is responsible for our Open Banking and Commercial API interfaces, supporting product innovations from both internal and external clients.
The role may also support other projects within the Company, co-ordinating internal technology, workstream and business resources.
They will be expected to drive delivery of project objectives, ensuring that key stakeholders are kept informed on process and that any issues are escalated in a timely manner, with mitigating actions suggested as appropriate.
Team Hybrid Working Style
We are very proud to offer one of the most flexible hybrid working arrangements in the industry!
The expectation for this role, will involve a minimum of one day each month - working out of our London Bridge office.
Key Accountabilities Include
Planning
Research and analyse market, regulatory environment and follow our competitors and the industry to drive strategy and prioritisation of deliverables- Input into the quarterly API roadmap in collaboration with the Chief Data Officer
- Plan and prioritise product feature backlog and development for the API products
- Regularly reviewing business requirements to ensure deliverables remain timely and clear, and implementation plans align with wider business objectives
Product Delivery
Take the lead of scrum team as the API Product Owner- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritise stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
- Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint demos & retrospectives
- Lead the planning of product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
- Follow Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
- Cost benefit analysis of product deliverables
Project Delivery
Working with the Head of Project Delivery, drive Delivery of designated projects to scope, time, and budget- Organise and facilitate kick-off sessions and oversee requirements gathering (functional and non-functional)
- Complete weekly and monthly project status reporting for wider business review and prioritisation
- Ensure all project documentation is accurate and up to date
- Identify internal and external dependencies with other projects
Resource Management
Identify resource requirements during initiation and work with stakeholders to secure resource- Co-ordinate resources throughout the project lifecycle either through team meetings and/or daily scrums
- Resolve any resource conflicts and dependencies with other PMs / Workstream product owners
Stakeholder engagement
- Manage internal Stakeholders through regular steering meetings with key sponsors, including creation of steering packs, minute taking and maintenance of RAIDD logs
- Collaborate with Technology Department Heads to ensure impacts to testing, platform, information security and service desk / application support are fully considered
Risk and Control Management
- Identify and manage Project risks and issues, escalating to Steerco as required
- Ensuring internal and external regulatory requirements are included and risk assessed appropriately
You'll Need to Have
Essential:
Experience as a Product Owner or Project Manager- In-depth knowledge of agile process and principles
- Demonstrated experience implementing business and technology projects and delivering change
- Hands-on experience managing all stages of the product life cycle
- Experience with a definition of minimum marketable features and minimum viable products
- Ability to elicit pragmatic solutions, whilst maximising business benefit
- Confidence in escalating issues where there are project blockers
- Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills
- Exceptional organisation abilities
- Confident liaising with senior stakeholders, managing their expectations and leveraging their time effectively
- Ability to deliver in a fast-moving environment with changing priorities
- Effective team working
Desirable:
Scrum / Product Owner Certifications- Knowledge of formal Project Management methodologies such as (PRINCE2/Agile/APMP)
-Previous experience of any of the following: -
- Publishing of services to partners/third parties via API’s
- Consumption of third-party API’s
- OBIE Open Banking and FAPI security framework
- Regulatory related projects (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR, PSD2)
- Financial services experience
- Consumer and commercial banking
- Payment schemes and processing (e.g. Faster Payments, Swift, Direct Debit, SEPA)
- Familiarity with the Microsoft technology stack (.net / SQL) and IBM-MQ
- Awareness of relevant technical and security standards e.g. PCI-DSS, ISO27000/1
In return you'll enjoy
- Competitive basic salary
- 7.5% of salary in cash allowing you the flexibility to decide your own benefits (or simply take the cash)
- 26 days’ holiday increasing each year of service to 33 days
- Ability to buy and sell a further 5 days holiday each year
- 4 x Life Assurance
- Pension salary sacrifice
- Family friendly policies
- Regular social activities and team events
- Charity Volunteering Day
- Free drinks and snacks in the office
Cashplus is an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
