Job Title
Product Manager: BackOffice Product Suite
Division/Department
Audit Software
Reason for Vacancy
New role
Reporting to: (name & position of Manager and any indirect reporting lines)
Managing Director: Audit Software
Main Purpose of the Position
The successful incumbent will take full responsibility for the vision, road map and success of the BackOffice Product Suite.
Key Deliverables and Weighting
Maintain and communicate vision and direction
o Maintain a clear product vision and keep it visible to the team o Set goals and objectives for releases and sprints
o Prioritize the Product Backlog o Make scope decisions/trade-offs o Set delivery dates
Keep customers and key stakeholders highly engaged o Communicate with Key Stakeholders
o Represent the customer, interface and engage the customer o Maintain a thorough understanding of the customer needs
Product Manager: BackOffice Product Suite
Create a new future for our users by championing the move of the BackOffice Product Suite as
an application-based software to cloud-based software. Work with talented and dynamic
cross-functional teams!
For more information, or if you have any questions, please contact:
Candice Clark
[email protected] | 011 507 0134
Define deliverables for the team o Specify Acceptance Criteria
o Elaborate Themes, Epics, and Features into Stories at the granularity necessary to fit into a single sprint
o Describe, prioritize, and communicate the requirements
o Express what value-added is from a customer perspective and focus the development efforts toward providing that value
Ensure project success
o Communicate status externally o Ensure profitability (ROI)
o Track and forecast the team’s progress o Manage the budget
Collaborate closely with the team
o Participate in Sprint Review, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, and Retrospective meetings o Accept or rejects work results based on Acceptance Criteria
o Provide day-to-day JIT tactical decisions to system level questions and defect triage o Closely collaborate with the team on an ongoing basis to guide and direct the team
Facilitate deliverable related meetings o Facilitate adaptive planning o Facilitate Release Planning o Facilitate Backlog Grooming o Facilitate Story Storming o Facilitate Estimation Workshops
o Facilitate definition of Minimum Marketable Releases and Features
Management Level and Details of the Management Component of this role
The Product Manager will not manage direct reports, but will collaborate and work closely with cross-functional teams.
Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
In-depth, working knowledge of South African accounting and tax principles and legislation
A good understanding of how practice management software should create significant efficiency in an accounting / auditing practice
Must be IT/Technically inclined
Understanding and exposure to the BackOffice Product Suite software (SecWare, TaxWare and CaseWare Time) would be beneficial
Behavioural / Soft Competencies, Skills and Abilities
Confident, enthusiastic, and highly resourceful
Visionary and Doer
WORK WITH OUR
Established in the early nineties, CQS Technology Holdings is one of South Africa’s leading software houses specialising in the design, development and deployment of software products and the provision of professional services for the audit, risk management, financial services and corporate performance management markets.
We have a history of providing world class solutions. Our talented team’s skills and experience, together with our unique content and intellectual property ensure we provide tangible results for audit, data analytics, controls monitoring, fraud detection and prevention and governance, risk and compliance.
Why should you work for CQS?
o Must also get their hands dirty and do the work that needs to be done to support the vision (requirements elaboration, collaborating with the team, steering the project, etc.)
Leader and Team Player
o Ensure guidance and direction are maintained and the tough decisions are made o Respects the team and the process, but maintains a clear, blunt voice
Communicator and Negotiator
o Must be able to keep everyone informed and drive transparency o Must be able to facilitate negotiation of project deliverables
o Ability to communicate with and align different parties (customers, users, development, engineering, marketing, sales, service, operations, and management)
Empowered and Committed
o Must be empowered to do their job by the highest levels of the organization o Must be committed to the success of the project
Available and Qualified
o Typically a full-time job, even on smaller initiatives
o Need intimate understanding of the customer and the market o Ability to manage a budget and guide a development project
o Comfortable working with a self-managed, self-organizing cross-functional team
Education and Qualification
Essential requirements Completed BCom Accounting / Finance / similar Desirable Requirements Completed tertiary Tax qualification
For more information, or if you have any questions, please contact:
Candice Clark
[email protected] | 011 507 0134
Details of ExperienceEssential requirements Completed articles
Desirable Requirements At least 1 – 2 years’ experience in a similar role
Computer Skills and Knowledge
Highly technologically literate
Advanced working knowledge of MS Office Product Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Working Environment & Travel
Mim
Minimal travel required
Working hours
8:30am to 17:00pm, flexi-time available.
What will make the incumbent successful in this role?
An individual with a clear passion for our customer’s success and the unwavering belief that this can lie in practice management software. It is important that the successful incumbent is confident, and able to collaborate with cross-functional teams in a way that keeps all teams aligned to the vision and road-map of the product.
WORK WITH OUR
Established in the early nineties, CQS Technology Holdings is one of South Africa’s leading software houses specialising in the design, development and deployment of software products and the provision of professional services for the audit, risk management, financial services and corporate performance management markets.
We have a history of providing world class solutions. Our talented team’s skills and experience, together with our unique content and intellectual property ensure we provide tangible results for audit, data analytics, controls monitoring, fraud detection and prevention and governance, risk and compliance.
