Product Owner/Manager

The Product Manager/Product Owner participates in product planning and development at both a strategic and execution level. This includes managing one or multiple products in Acupay’s or Euronext Securities’ tax services portfolio throughout their lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with technology and software engineering, to deliver winning products and meet external and internal customer demands. This role takes the lead working together with internal teams to design, document, plan and implement all processes and systems in accordance with requirements. They will also help to continuously improve systems and optimize processes to enhance efficiency.

For the right candidate this position can be located in any of our Euronext offices.

Key Responsibilities

• To analyse operational, legal, and technical information gathered by the Product Management team or provided by other teams.
• To document business and customer requirements at a high level (high level business requirements)
• To act as the Product Owner for the backlog:
• To manage and make visible the product backlog, or the prioritized list of epics and user stories for product development.
• To change the order of items in the product backlog.
• To be always available to the development team to answer any questions team members have regarding the customer’s needs and the customer’s views of how the team is implementing a product feature.
• To identify and match the company’s existing products (and define and create new products) to serve customers, synchronize with partners and support internal user demands.
• To manage internal and external projects and initiatives involving the design of solutions that support customer requirements and needs or internal requests.
• To coordinate with the QA department on the preparation of internal and external test plans and cases and implementation of test plans both internally and externally, including the liaison with internal teams and clients.
• To support interactions with prospective clients in relation to product demos, presentations, and projects proposals.
• To report external and internal project status updates to stakeholders and to highlight possible risks and issues to each relevant Project Lead or Manager.
• To proactively identify business and performance improvement opportunities of the department, flagging these up to department management in a timely manner.
• To work diligently to achieve their own and the division’s key performance indicators and targets.
• To maintain professional competence by complying at all times with the training and competence procedures of the company.
  
  

Essential

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT, science, or management-related discipline with at least 2:1 (or analogous result) achieved.
• At least 5 years work experience in Product Management or Business Analytics.
• Agile or SCRUM Product Owner certification.
• Experience in and/or knowledge of one or more of the following areas: financial markets, international tax regimes, custody and corporate actions.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office suite.
• Ability to work under pressure, as well as to be a team player.
• Ability to assist in operational planning in the short, medium and long-term business environments.
• Proven ability to prioritise their own workload as well as that of others, to work to their own initiative and to identify improvements on an ongoing basis.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including procedure writing in English.
• Ability to effectively analyse information quickly, approach challenges creatively and work to find innovative solutions.
  
  

DESIRABLE

• Tax knowledge specific to Belgian, French and/or Dutch investment markets.
• Certification(s) in project management, product management and/or software development lifecycle.
• Working knowledge of multiple languages.
  
  

Euronext Values

Unity

• We respect and value the people we work with
• We are unified through a common purpose
• We embrace diversity and strive for inclusion
  
  

Integrity

• We value transparency, communicate honestly and share information openly
• We act with integrity in everything we do
• We don’t hide our mistakes, and we learn from them
  
  

Agility

• We act with a sense of urgency and decisiveness
• We are adaptable, responsive and embrace change
• We take smart risks
  
  

Energy

• We are positively driven to make a difference and challenge the status quo
• We focus on and encourage personal leadership
• We motivate each other with our ambition
  
  

Accountability

• We deliver maximum value to our customers and stakeholders
• We take ownership and are accountable for the outcome
• We reward and celebrate performance
  
  

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other legally protected factor. We value the unique talents of all our people, who come from diverse backgrounds with different personal experiences and points of view and we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect.

Additional Information

This job description is only describing the main activities within a certain role and is not exhaustive. It does not prevent to add more tasks, projects.