Customer Journey Expert

<p>Your work environment</p><p>Financial Markets (FM) is the Bank’s gateway to the professional markets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of ING’s clients with products, services and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in our market leader and challenger markets, with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products.</p><p></p><p>Your role</p><p>The FMGT Tribe is the change delivery department of Financial Markets (‘FM’) and Group Treasury (‘GT’) that has as purpose to realize our clients’ dreams by connecting them to global markets, providing financial solutions, and delivering long lasting value.</p><p></p><p>We are looking for an ambitious and pragmatic team player to strengthen our team of customer journey experts.</p><p></p><p>As a Customer Journey Expert (CJE):</p><ul><li>You will combine market and system knowledge, product management, and business expertise to take a leading role in successfully delivering change initiatives.</li><li>You will be the interfacing function between various stakeholders (trading, sales, Ops, IT, markets, and software vendor partners) to understand the challenges and identify how technology and process can be used to solve them.</li><li>You will represent the voice of the business to the squads.</li></ul><p></p><p>Your key responsibilities</p><ul><li>Support efficient change by providing impactful analysis on cross domain, end-to-end, complex environments;</li><li>As partner of the squads, maximises business value by providing clear and developer-ready content for user stories (what is needed, for whom and why) in the squad backlog in AZURE and facilitate alignment of the delivery teams (how) with the businesses/user groups to ensure a strong focus on timely &amp; good quality delivery;</li><li>Translate and explain the “What” so that the IT engineers can determine the appropriate “How”</li><li>Makes sure that the COPAFIT element of the change delivery are covered and taken care of;</li><li>Structure, simplify and solve issues on processes and systems. Participate/Lead end to end refinement and solution design sessions;</li><li>Provide process design and visualisation;</li><li>Works independently and ensures that implications of decisions are thought through and get addressed;</li><li>Be able to have a good end-to-end vision and manage complexity;</li><li>Keep track of and analyze market and competition developments;</li><li>Leads, guides, and inspires others in specific areas and manages the preparations and commitments regarding deliverables;</li><li>Creates an environment of open dialogue that encourages expertise development through collaboration and idea-sharing, in which colleagues take responsibility, help each other to be successful and remain a step ahead;</li><li>Establishes and maintains strong (sustainable) relationships with key stakeholders, focused on a clear understanding of their challenges and opportunities. Also, to identify business opportunities to drive revenue and improve product offerings;</li><li>Trains and coaches involved parties, ensuring understanding, adoption, and proper implementation of proposed solution(s);</li><li>Accumulates and collects knowledge, keeps it up to date and makes it accessible for re-use. Takes initiatives for sharing knowledge;</li><li>In case of an existing product/market, also takes care of the further development of a product by initiating new Epics, Features and Stories.</li></ul><p></p><p>Who are we looking for?</p><p>A colleague with a talent for taking it on and making it happen, enthusiasm for helping others to be successful and a knack for always being a step ahead. In other words, you strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast changing and complex environment. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems.</p><p></p><p>We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.</p><p></p><p>As Customer Journey Expert you will also need:</p><ul><li>Completed a bachelor’s degree;</li><li>5+ years background in Financial Markets and/or Treasury with exposure to Trading Market Risk (Must have)</li><li>Experience in Risk Management;</li><li>Familiar with the Financial Markets regulation is a plus;</li><li>Experience with working in Agile/Scrum is a plus;</li><li>You have a problem-solving mentality;</li><li>Good communication skills (in English), communication and presentation skills (telling – selling) across different skill and seniority levels;</li><li>You are flexible and you easily adapt to a changing environment;</li><li>You enjoy working in a diverse and multi-