Product Manager / Business analyst
EY
- Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 15+ years of relevant business analysis experience preferably with a financial services/consulting firm in Capital Market, WAM, Risk - Market and financial, Regulatory Reporting, Retail banking, Portfolio management, etc
- Solid exposure to structured and scaled software development life-cycle methodology (preferably Agile or Iterative development)
- Exposure of Data-driven projects and understanding of financial data.
- Train and guide junior Business Analysts in the team
- Experience in leading multi-cultural teams in a geographically diverse environment
- Must have an eye for detail and analyse/relate to the business problem in hand
- Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills
- Ability to develop and maintain good relationships with all business and systems stakeholders
- Strong customer awareness with the ability to manage customer expectations
- A good oversight role in driving projects from initiation to closure.
- Support short-term and long-term tactical & strategic business activities through analysis
- Develop, recommend, and implement business solutions through research and analysis of data and business processes
- Strong, hands-on Product Owner / Delivery lead experience
- Take ownership of the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
- Define and prioritize product features, enhancements, and user stories.
- Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and development teams to ensure clear communication and understanding of product requirements.
- Monitor and evaluate product performance, collecting user feedback to drive continuous improvement.
- Use the grooming sessions to break functional requirements into corresponding tech architecture
- Epic refinements - architecture changes, etc
- Managed working in distributed teams through daily timezone overlaps
- Jira / confluence-based ticket tracking
- Certifications like, CSPO, SAFe, Advanced CSPO
- Travel onsite primarily for the PIs as per requirement
- General project management experience, including resource allocations, budgeting, etc.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills with the ability to think laterally to arrive at a solution
- Identify business-driven needs
- Provide insights into leading practices, foster innovation, industry standards and trends
- Review the current state analysis on business processes and target state creation
- Review existing and lead the creation of requirement documentation, use cases, epics and user stories
- Identify gaps and recommend action plans and prioritization
- Produce concise yet effective business requirements
- Evaluate process maps and wireframes
- Data Sourcing, data mapping and data lineage for a data system
- Manage delivery and quality assurance
- Provide training and documentation
- Monitor and respond to feature and support requests
- UAT Support and postproduction support
- SQL, Data Modelling, Data visualization, Python scripting, etc
- Understanding of Cloud Concepts
- Advanced excel, Data Visualization
- Agile Certifications (Scrum Master and Product Owner)
- Visio and UML Skills
- Experience of working on RFPs
- Exposure and knowledge of Digital & Emerging Technologies, Cloud, AI & ML, Blockchain, IoT, RPA, etc.