Working Student Portfolio and Programme Management

**Team**

Portfolio and Programme Management team is an independent function for supporting Engineering, Product and Business in their mission of delivering value. We catalyse the cross-functional efficacy within and between the Product and Engineering organization and their collaborations with the Business Units in having well-planned, timely and prioritized impact on all relevant stakeholders and Raisin itself. We look after the portfolio level of governance across different product and engineering teams, at the same time, we also provide project and program management to the major and critical initiatives. The portfolio management activities we do include but not limited to:

- Process governance
- Tracking and surfacing interdependencies, complexities, portfolio risks and organizational impediments
- Acting as “connective tissue” between functions of Raisin
- Ensuring transparency and fostering communication and alignment within and around the Product Organization
- Facilitating the prioritization process, context setting, organizational activities (e.g. Capacity Planning, Release Management); creating a holistic view across teams so they are synchronized; driving quarterly planning and retrospectives
- Advocating for continuous improvement cycle to improve predictability
- Value capturing & reporting; making sure that product releases are connected to company OKRs
- Driving process optimization by spotting issues and acting to resolve them.

Specific **P**roject Management* activities include:

- Planning and coordinating, managing projects plans and sequencing
- Measuring & monitoring progress
- Accurate & timely reporting
- Ensuring adherence to project governance
- Risks: identification, management, amplification and mitigation
- Identification and management of changes, issues and opportunities
- Owning and running cross-functional team meetings

In addition to the project activities, **other responsibilities** of the team include:

- Communicating, documenting and managing project structure and processes, thereby fuelling successful collaboration of stakeholders
- Facilitation: consulting, support, assistance for POs/ BOs/ ELs
- Project/programme management practice & excellence: forming & growing a community of practice, offering training & guidance for project & portfolio management activities

**Your Responsibilities**
- Supporting in company-wide processes, governance & activities related to planning, progress updating and monitoring
- Provide efficient and useful communication, documentation and project management structure
- Provide accurate and in-time reportings with basic data analytics
- Support for improving predictability by supporting the tools set up. Setting up the OKRs into Jira tool (VIs/ epics/ stories), assuring setting up the flows and automations and adapting the company’s Jira ways of working
- Support in programme and project management, esp. risk management, change management, planning and stakeholder management
- Supports and endorses the continuous improvement cycle in both portfolio and project level
- Facilitate in communication: seeking optimal context, level-of-detail and frequency of communication for each type of stakeholder

**Your Profile**

**Requirements**:

- Well organized
- Fluent, advanced English level
- Basic Microsoft Excel knowledge
- Punctuality
- Attention to detail
- Ability & willingness to learn fast and pick up new things easily
- Ability to meet deadlines

Nice to Haves:

- Great communication skills
- Commitment and Flexibility
- Open-minded and ambitious personality
- Basic knowledge in agile and project management
- Basic knowledge in Jira

**Join our mission, join our team - and grow with us**
At Raisin we look out for each other and one of our top priorities is to create an open and friendly atmosphere where everyone feels welcome and comfortable. Our culture is shaped above all by our dedicated team, which now includes more than 40 different nationalities.
You will find us in our modern and open-plan main office in the trendy district of Kreuzberg with a view of the Spree, ideally connected to public transport and surrounded by a variety of restaurants and shops.
As part of the Raisin team in Berlin you benefit from
- Personal training budget of €350 and one training day per year
- An online German course for beginners
- Always hungry? Snacks, fresh fruit every day and drinks are available to you around the clock in the office
- Flexible working hours, home office and 20 days of vacation per year
- Discover more than 50+ different sports with Urban Sports Club: We subsidize your membership with over 20 € per month
- Experience our annual retreats in exciting European cities and other (online) team events such as Lunch & Learn, Tech Lunch, Female Empowerment Forum, CEO Talks and our annual summer and Christmas party

**About us**

We are Raisin, a dynamic and fast-growing fintech company that is a trailblazer for open banking in th