Product Owner, Monetary Transactions

We are currently enabling a gradual transformation of Retail and Corporate Banking segments in OP Financial Group. Transformation is enabled by shared core banking system and other system upgrades. As the name suggest, Core Banking System tribe is responsible of OP's new core banking system and successful transformation, also known as Valas, as a whole. 

We´re now fitting this new system into OP's technology environment. This fitting requires us to think our surrounding systems differently and as part of that we renewing our clerk tooling related to monetary transactions. For this reason, we are seeking a Product Owner to lead the clerks monetary transactions as product to new era. 

 
Product Owner, Monetary Transactions, Core Banking System tribe 

 
In this role, you will be responsible of the vision and direction of the team developing capabilities related to account and loan based monetary transactions. You will be leading the backlog of cross functional team consisting of developers, solution and business analysts, designers and tester. Your responsibility will be to guarantee successfully delivery needed for successful transformation. 

The level of task complexity is OP7. 
  
Core skills we believe will be needed in this role: 

• Product Backlog Management 
• Strong project management or agile lead experience (5+ years)  
• Work planning and reporting skills 
• Proactive, systematic, and result-oriented mindset 
• Excellent facilitation skills 
• Utilizing skills of Jira and Confluence 
• Communication skills in English are a must, fluency in Finnish is an advantage 
• Domain experience in Loans, accounts and payments area 
• Understanding of accounting and clerck process is an advantage 
• Experience on IT deliveries and development lifecycle 

  
Why should you dive with us, then? 
  
Join our team to take on a pivotal role in managing and developing clerk tools and processes for the future. You'll be at the forefront of building future proof clerk experience, shape company-wide ways of working, and align product backlogs, architecture, and business objectives. This role offers rich learning opportunities and career growth by collaborating with diverse professionals from our own and other tribes within OP. Join us for a dynamic and impactful career in core banking transformation. 
  
What do we offer? 
  
To help counterbalance work where you are expected to take a lot of responsibility, we seek to ensure employee wellbeing and to enable forward-looking work arrangements. We offer a stable working environment where you can contribute to our core values: responsibility, people first and succeeding together.   

To help counterbalance work where you are expected to take a lot of responsibility, we seek to ensure employee wellbeing and to enable forward-looking work arrangements. We offer a stable working environment where you can contribute to our core values: responsibility, people first and succeeding together.

You will enjoy a wide range of staff benefits, including a personnel fund and special terms for employee banking, insurance and loan services. We offer comprehensive occupational health care, extensive medical treatment expenses insurance and a full-time group accident insurance policy. We invest in wellbeing at work by encouraging a good work-life balance, providing flexibility in your daily life, and offering lunch, sport and cultural benefits and opportunities for affordable holidays in OP timeshares.

How to proceed from here? 

Apply for the position by Wednesday, 11th of Devember 2024, by submitting your CV and application with salary expectations via the link below. Please elaborate on your skills and motivation for the position. We process applications already during the application period, so don't hesitate to apply early. 

For more information about the position, contact Business Lead Mika Kivi, phone: 0404897321 or email: mika.kivi@op.fi. Mika will be happy to answer your questions. You can reach him on Wednesdays between 11:00 and 12:00. 

We operate in the financial sector and our business is founded on trust and accountability. For this reason, we will check the successful candidate's credit history, corporate connections and potential conflicts of interest. In addition, the successful candidate must take a drug test. 

OP Financial Group – We have something in common   

Diversity and equality are highly prized at OP Financial Group. We want everyone to feel welcome and valued, and we appreciate that diversity enriches us and brings new perspectives. We invite job applications from everyone, because we all have something in common. We’re thrilled that you want to join us on our shared journey.   

Owned by our customers, we are the most attractive financial sector employer in Finland. Our Group employs more than 14,000 professionals. We have a mission – to promote the sustainable prosperity, security and wellbeing of our owner-customers and operating region. What we do matters, both to our employees and society in general. As the largest financial services group in Finland, we are building a better tomorrow; this has been our goal for more than 120 years. 

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