E T Consultant - Product Owner

CGAP; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The World Bank invites a Product Owner to join ITS Finance, a unit within ITS that enables delivery of financial data insights and scalable reporting across the organization.

You will own the product backlog, define the roadmap, and engage stakeholders to translate requirements into deployable increments. Dashboard work with Power BI and Tableau will be central to delivering value.

Qualifications

• The Product Owner owns and maintains the team backlog with well-defined user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Translates business requirements into actionable work and leads sprint planning and backlog refinement.
• Defines the product vision and multi-year roadmap aligned with institutional strategy.
• Engages stakeholders across Finance, Accounting, Controller's office and IT.
• Coordinates user acceptance testing and ensures high-quality increments.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain product backlog, ensure stories are sprint-ready.
• Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, and reviews with the team.
• Define and communicate product vision and roadmap.
• Engage stakeholders and manage competing priorities.
• Develop interactive dashboards using Power BI and Tableau.
• Analyze financial data to support corporate reporting.
• Monitor performance metrics and drive continuous improvement.
• Support change management and communications around new capabilities.

Skills

Agile Product Ownership

Backlog Management

Sprint Planning

Product Vision & Roadmap

Stakeholder Engagement

User Acceptance Testing

Data Visualization

Power BI

Tableau

Financial Data Analysis

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

SAFe Lean Portfolio Management

Job description

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd

ITS Vice Presidency Context

The Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) Vice Presidential Unit (VPU) enables the World Bank Group to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150+ locations. For more information on ITS, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9 v=VTFGffa1Y7w

Unit Context: ITS Finance accelerates information and technology as a force multiplier supporting WBG core finance and risk while enabling increased financial operations agility through a range of robust, flexible financing instruments and facilities for WBG private and public sector clients.

We collaborate closely with our business partners to be a leading developmental financial institution that continues to deepen and sustain developmental impact. ITSFI’s portfolio is comprised of Treasury, Risk, Accounting and Financial Operations, and Developmental Finance. Under the ITSFI Director, the portfolio is operationalizing SAFe Lean Portfolio Management.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Agile Product Ownership and Backlog Management: The Product Owner is responsible for the following: The Product Owner is responsible for owning and maintaining the team's product backlog, ensuring that user stories are well-defined, estimated, prioritized, and sprint-ready at all times. This includes translating business requirements into clear, actionable user stories with precise acceptance criteria, and decomposing features and epics into executable team-level work. The PO leads sprint planning, backlog refinement, and sprint review ceremonies in close collaboration with the Scrum Master and development team.
• Product Vision and Roadmap: The PO defines and communicates the product vision and multi-year roadmap, ensuring alignment with the World Bank Group's institutional corporate strategy and reporting priorities. The PO ensures that iteration-level delivery is consistently oriented toward program-level objectives, translating high-level strategic goals into actionable team work.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Representation: The PO serves as the primary liaison between the Corporate Reporting Agile Team and its stakeholder community across the World Bank Group, including Finance, Accounting, the Controller's office, and IT teams. This includes participating in relevant institutional meetings, representing the team's product portfolio to senior stakeholders, managing competing priorities diplomatically, and ensuring that business needs are accurately captured and reflected in the backlog.
• User Acceptance and Quality Assurance: The PO coordinates user acceptance testing and validates that delivered features meet stakeholder expectations prior to release. The PO is accountable for accepting or rejecting completed work based on defined acceptance criteria and the team's Definition of Done, ensuring that only high-quality, tested, and deployable increments are released to end users.
• Financial Data Analysis and Reporting: The PO collects, processes, analyzes, and presents financial data to support accurate and timely corporate reporting. This includes responding to ad hoc data and analytical requests from leadership and business units in a timely and accurate manner, and aligning with Finance, Accounting, and IT teams on data definitions, reporting requirements, and system changes.
• Reporting Automation and Process Improvement: The PO identifies opportunities to streamline and automate financial reporting processes, reducing manual effort and improving data accuracy. The PO develops and maintains standardized templates, data dictionaries, and documentation for reporting workflows, and supports the adoption of scalable and repeatable reporting practices across the team.
• Data Visualization and Communication: The PO develops interactive dashboards and visual reports using tools such as Power BI and Tableau to communicate financial insights effectively. Findings are presented in a clear, non-technical manner tailored to diverse audiences, including finance teams, senior management, and non-financial stakeholders across the institution.
• Performance Monitoring and Continuous Improvement: The PO monitors product performance and adoption metrics, using data to drive continuous improvement in prioritization, delivery, and reporting quality. The PO actively participates in Inspect Adapt sessions and champions a culture of learning, experimentation, and iterative refinement within the team.
• Change Management and Communications: The PO supports organizational change management and communication activities related to new reporting capabilities, helping stakeholders understand, adopt, and benefit from enhancements to the corporate reporting platform.

Duty location will be in Washington DC, USA.