Shaun Cassar
Product Owner - Digital Adviser Online at Macquarie Group- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum AllianceAug, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Scrum Product Owner Certified
SCRUMstudy - Accreditation Body for Scrum and AgileNov, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
The Agile Business Analyst
SoftEd
Experience
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Macquarie Group
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Australia
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Product Owner - Digital Adviser Online
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Nov 2021 - Present
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Product Owner - Tax & Statements
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Jun 2019 - Nov 2021
Ownership of the vision / product roadmap for the Tax & Statements capability across the Macquarie Wrap platform including key client correspondence (statements), tax reporting & tax transformation, regulatory reporting and data feeds. Accountability for delivery across a large country distributed team, executing multiple programs of work concurrently.Stakeholder & vendor management across critical correspondence & tax programsContinually fostered open & transparent communicate with management to make program wide decisions.Facilitation of team scrum ceremonies (backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint demo). Backlog management including conducting key decision making for prioritisation.Key SME within Wealth management & backend related systems. Experience with large scale end-to-end operational environments.Provided mentorship and career management for a number of direct reports. Show less
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Agile Business Analyst - Wealth Management
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Apr 2016 - Jun 2019
Technical Agile Business Analyst within Data Management & API project teams (Enterprise Agile)Experience in both Waterfall ((Eliciting requirements, vendor / stakeholder management, Writing BRD's & FRD's) and Agile environments (User stories, acceptance criteria, scrum ceremonies etc)Strong communication skills, with detailed experience in writing user stories workshops & process modellingDiverse technical skills in Python scripting / SQL / Java & UnixExperienced SME in Wealth platforms, portfolio management, superannuation, taxation, regulatory compliance (AIIR, QTFN, International 1042s reporting)Hand developed Python based web application integrating to Amazon S3 for migration reconciliationExperience in engagement with diverse capability teams across an Agile Release Train (ART)Lead BA on various data projects such as moving transactions data between legacy data systems to Cassandra (involving reconciliations and delta processes) Show less
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Application Prod Support Analyst
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Feb 2014 - Apr 2016
Supported 13+ applications daily and overnight (spanning various technologies such as java, spring, python, unix)Deployed & reviewed application code changes into productionTechnical governance & risk management to new production releasesMaintain a strong relationship between project teams, operational and product staffConduct incident management and improve time to resolveDeveloped and released code changes to reduce production defectsDocument all production applications and resolve all application issues and answer all requests. Show less
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Intern - Software Developer
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Nov 2012 - Feb 2014
Development of complex Unix (ksh,sh), SQL scripts along with Java Released critical changes for Macquarie Wrap's cash matching processCreation and maintenance of various SQL databases (Sybase, Oracle, MS SQL)Coordinated software releases with management and created implementation plans.
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Education
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University of Western Sydney
BICT/BB&C, Business, Information Technology, Finance