Senior Agile Product Owner

Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting - TeamMate division is looking for a Senior Product Owner

TeamMate® is the world’s leading audit management system.  It is one of many best in breed solutions provided by Wolters Kluwer.  TeamMate® has revolutionized the industry, empowering audit departments of all sizes to spend less time documenting and reviewing and more time providing value-added services.

TeamMate® software is used by audit professionals all over the world and is recognized as the award-winning audit management software system that increases the efficiency and productivity of the entire internal audit process, including risk assessment, scheduling, planning, execution, review, report generation, trend analysis, audit committee reporting and evidence storage.  By providing an integrated paperless strategy for managing audits, TeamMate's audit software eliminates the barriers associated with paper-filled binders and disconnected electronic files, driving efficiencies into all facets of the internal audit workflow.

As a Senior Product Owner your key responsibility is working within a product management team to create powerful solutions to business problems within the TeamMate software. You are a member of a team focused on successful delivery of value-based product offerings. Day to day activities include writing user stories with detailed requirements, working with developers and quality assurance professionals to ensure requirements are understood, performing user acceptance testing (UAT) on stories, and demonstrating the value of the features being created to internal stakeholders and customers.

Additional ongoing activities include working with clients to uncover challenges in the auditor’s daily work, identifying gaps that present new opportunities for innovation, and clearly defining what can be done to make a better TeamMate solution overall for both existing and future clients.

Primary responsibilities:

• Acts as a Product Owner and leader on a scrum team using Agile software development methodologies.  Work with scrum team (lead developers, quality assurance leads, and support) to ensure quality releases are delivered on time, participate in daily global stand-up meetings to discuss high-level issues with other project teams; prioritize cycle & sprint goals, work as  Agile scrum master to assist in the resolution of global issues. Also responsible for user acceptance (UAT) testing.
• Breakdown requirements with development teams into estimable stories, create delivery plans based on estimates and team capacity
• Write user stories with direction from Product Managers.  Working with Developers and QA to ensure the end-to-end feature set has been thoroughly analyzed and includes an appropriate level of detail.
• Lead planning work based on customer research findings and direction provided by User Experience experts and the design team to create mockups, understand impacted personas, and functional requirements for given features.
• Ensures system functionality meets design requirements by acting on behalf of the customer during sprint reviews; participating in redesigns if the functionality does not meet design requirements; presenting the design to internal stakeholders and customers during and after development.
• Contribute to organizational success by sharing subject matter expertise in a variety of ways: participate in functional and technical training sessions, author & maintain user documentation, videos, marketing briefs, system protocols, procedures and reference materials, and coach / mentor junior product management staff to develop skills.
• Assist in troubleshooting internal and external stakeholder issues, providing solutions and triaging defects with multiple development teams. Represents Wolters Kluwer by developing and maintaining comprehensive knowledge of Wolters Kluwer TeamMate products, industry trends and general business and financial acumen through various sources and initiatives.
• Communicates in a professional, compelling, and articulate manner, writing and formal presentation; behaving in ways that demonstrate corporate core values and culture; developing professional and positive relationships with clients and colleagues; and maintaining a reputation of competence, integrity, and professionalism.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline;
• Total minimum 7 years of experience with minimum 5 years writing IT business requirements through user stories or similar in a complex work environment.
• Experience working on a dynamic team
• Working and presenting to individuals at all levels of an organization, including C-level executives
• Self-motivated
• Customer service skills
• Analytical skills
• Prioritization, multitasking and organizational skills
• Interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Critical thinking
• Leadership skills
• Written and verbal communication skills
• English language

Preferred Qualifications:    

• Internal Audit, Risk Management, Internal Controls, or Compliance experience

• TeamMate tools and systems
• Agile Software Development
• Negotiation/influencing business decisions
• Change management
• Experience with Prototyping tools (Balsamiq, Figma, Miro, etc.)
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• VersionOne, JIRA, or Azure DEV OPS