Scrum Master (Junior)
About the role
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. 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.
Focused on supporting SCRUM ceremonies and implementing 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 support to the development (Scrum) team in the implementation and further development of agile processes; continuously identifies areas of improvements and opportunities to apply agile best practices into daily team activities; ensures the visibility of the delivery status; and moderates all Scrum meetings and designs the content 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