Product Owner

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Lead Business Execution Consultant in Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid).

Contract Duration: 18 Months + possible extensions/conversion

What You Will Be Doing

Lead cross functional teams to strategize, plan, and execute a variety of programs, services and initiatives.

Drive accountability for assigned initiatives, limit risk exposure, and create efficiencies as appropriate.

Review strategic approaches and effectiveness of support function and business performance.

Perform assessments through fact finding and data requiring creative approaches to solving complex issues and develop appropriate solutions or recommendations.

Make decisions in highly complex and multifaceted situations requiring solid understanding of business group's functional area or products, facilitate decision making and issue resolution, and support implementation of developed solutions and plans.

Collaborate and consult with members of the Business Execution team and team leaders to drive strategic initiatives.

Influence, guide and lead less experienced Strategy and Execution staff within the group.

Create user stories & Process Flows.

Review User stories with Project team.

Update and maintain user stories in JIRA.

Attend daily sprints, backlog review, playbacks, etc.

Required Skills & Experience

Proactive, independent self-starter, who can work in collaboration with the product and cross functional teams and partners.

Document current flows and future flows from user experience.

Knowledge of JIRA/Confluence application for Agile development.

Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate ideas to diverse business and technical audiences.

Proficiency with MS Office software products including MS Project, Power Point, Word, Excel, Visio, SharePoint and TEAMS.

Schedule and lead project meetings as needed, publishing agendas, notes and minutes.

Experience navigating heavily matrixed organizations, including multiple business lines.

Desired Skills & Experience

Banking experience, prior client's experience a plus.

Strong wholesale treasury management background and experience.

Experience with payment systems.

Knowledge of wire transfers, SWIFT, ISO, CHIPS, Fedwire.