Scrum Master (Junior)

About Us

Who is Mercedes-Benz Financial Services?

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, part of the global company Mercedes-Benz Mobility AG is the captive financing and mobility solutions company of the global luxury automobile manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz AG. We offer a comprehensive range of automotive financial and insurance products that make it easy for our customers to drive their dream Mercedes-Benz vehicle.

Why work at Mercedes-Benz Financial Services?

Working at Mercedes-Benz Financial Services is more than a job – it’s an opportunity to join an innovative team where you are valued for your contributions. As an employee, you will experience career development in a positive, employee-centric environment. We’re a global company that not only offers best-in-class products to our customers but also best-in-class benefits to our employees. Our employees experience a comfortable, friendly environment and relaxed, inclusive culture.

Benefits

When working at Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, you will enjoy a comprehensive and amenity-rich benefits package offering something for every employee at each stage of their life.

As a new employee, you will have the opportunity to take advantage of the following benefits that go beyond – beginning day one:

Get Rewarded! Competitive salary plus an annual bonus based on company performance and/or personal yearly performance

Need a vacation? How about just some time for YOU! In addition to our vacation time, you’ll receive fifteen (15) additional corporate holidays, which will allow you to celebrate religious holidays or escape to the spa! Designed to be flexible, we let you decide which days are most important to you!

Ride in Style - All employees are eligible to participate in the Mercedes-Benz Employee Lease Program

We want you to be healthy!Outstanding medical, dental, and vision insurance, employer-paid short and long term disability plus on-site exercise facilities

Is your family growing? Enjoy generous paid Family Leave Programs- Six Weeks for New Parents; Adoption Expense Reimbursement Programs - up to $6k per child

Want to go back to school?Tuition Assistance Scholar Program - receive up to $8k in vouchers to complete business-related coursework

$6k for undergraduate

$8k for graduate

Job Overview

Focused on supporting SCRUM ceremonies and implement SAFe Agile principles with Product Teams.

Own, manage and administer the IT Budget process, with continuous monitoring, tracking and reporting as well as implement improvements.

The Scrum Master provides the following

• Support to the development (Scrum) team in the implementation and further development of agile processes.
• Continuously identify areas of improvements and opportunities to apply agile best practices into daily team activities.
• Ensuring the visibility of the delivery status.
• Moderation of all Scrum meetings and content design of the Sprint retrospective.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and facilitates initiation kick off
• Setting up PI Planning, retrospectives, sprint reviews or sprint planning sessions
• Product backlog grooming and estimation
• Keep the project board up to date, provides team members with authorized story cards
• Encouraging collaboration within the Product Team (40%)
• Be the custodian for the IT Budget Master sheet and supporting artifacts
• Daily review of changes to budget line items, escalation wherever deemed necessary
• Use BEELINE, SAP and C4MB for reconciliation of dates, amounts and invoices
• Prepare dashboards for plan vs actual, variance and trend analysis, forecast and projections
• Weekly and monthly meetings with IT Managers for dashboard reviews (40%)
• Produce, analyze, and maintain team metrics, including velocity, to provide visibility to management
• Help the team maintain their burndown chart (10%)
• Facilitate an established series of key meetings including daily stand ups
• Facilitate meeting cadence for IT Budget tracking and monitoring (10%)

Qualifications

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. at the time of application. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
• This position requires a minimum of 3+ years of overall work experience. Preferred experience includes:
• Information Technology: 3+ years

Education

High School Diploma/(GED) is required, Bachelor's Degree is preferred. Recommended majors include:

Information Technology

Computer/Information Science

• SAFe know how preferred
• Good MS Excel skills is a must.
• MS Project is a plus

Additional Knowledge

Project Management

• Agile methodology
• MS Excel; Finance/budget concepts
• Python coding basic skills

Skills

Facilitation skills

PC skills

Microsoft Office

• Presentation skills
• Problem Solving skills
• Project Management skills
• Project leader
• Recommended Prerequisites: Prior experience in Project Management or as a Scrum Master preferred. Scrum master or PMP certification preferred.

Posting Statement

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Mercedes-Benz Financial Services offers competitive salary, performance-based bonuses and a full suite of benefits including 401(K) with match, generous vacation and personal time, a Mercedes-Benz car program as well as flexible work arrangements.

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