Product Owner

At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

Enable and inspire a multi-disciplinary team ('Squad') to pursue its mission, by guiding them on 'what' work should be completed by the squad. The Product Owner constantly prioritises tasks and the squad’s backlog with the customer at the heart of their decision making. The Product Owner also ensures that the work is strategically aligned to the tribe mission and engages with other Product Owners to align and manage interdependencies. This role is also a people manager, and a key leadership role, galvanising the squad around a vision and supporting them to successfully deliver customer value at pace. 

As the Product Owner – Data and Decisioning within the Commercial Digital and Customer Experience, you will lead a team responsible for the data structuring, real time decisioning capabilities, consuming external financial data and back-end services. You and your team will be responsible for the delivery of these components which would build upcoming features.

Role Location: 833 Collins Street, Docklands VIC 3008 Role Type: Permanent Schedule: Full Time 

This role is accountable for designing and re-engineering digital propositions to aid the expansion of commercial lending and its functions 

• Decisioning – designing and elaborating requirements for new features and continuously optimising the origination channel’s real time decisioning capabilities

• Ingestion of external data – Ingesting, validating and transforming external data to aid in real time decisioning

• Transformation - Transforming current as-is lending processes into an efficient digital online workflow   

• Data modelling – Creating, updating and maintaining the product / feature level data model

• Squad Backlog – ownership and management of backlog including quarterly planning across a broad squad remit

• People leadership – direct and indirect people leadership including coaching and delivery through others

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

• Deep expertise on data models and integration of different systems

• Ability to conceptualise conversion of manual process to digital solutions. 

• Construct data mapping specifications between different systems that are built on different platforms.

• Analyse raw data coming from different systems, design validation algorithms and exception handling methods.

• Perform analysis, conduct impact assessments, understand potential change impacts of implementing a feature.

• Proven problem-solving skills leveraging networks and available resources

• Strong influencing skills ensuring alignment with internal partners managing conflicting priorities 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence outcomes at all levels.

• Comfortable with ambiguity and finding solutions where answers aren’t always clear

• Ability to galvanise a diverse group of people around a common mission and influence stakeholders at all levels to achieve commercial outcomes

• Ability to quickly adapt and grasp new skills and content.

• Proven analytical skills and evidence based decision making 

• People leadership with proven ability to deliver through others, coach and develop capability

• Successfully built a network of strong relationships 

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and communities thrive.

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. you'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and support you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse bunch at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.

At ANZ, you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because We're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability or access requirement, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.