Product Owner - Finance Record to Report (10)

Product Owner

As a Product Owner, you are responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Delivery Team by clearly expressing Product Backlog items.You are responsible for ordering the items to best achieve goals and missions.You will calculate, measure and track business value, as well as optimize the value of the work the Development Team performs ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all.This will show what the Delivery Team will work on next.

You will ensure the Delivery Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed.

Responsibilities:

• Record-to-Report (R2R) Systems Architecture: Collaborate with engineering leads to evaluate integrations, accounting transformation rules, and systemic touchpoints across the R2R landscape.
• End-to-End Financial Pipeline Ownership: Author user stories, manage complex backlogs, and define data validation criteria across products
• Oracle Cloud Fusion Ledger Mastery: Oversee product capabilities, chart of accounts (COA) mapping, and ledger integrity across Oracle Cloud Fusion GL, Fixed Assets, and AHCS modules.
• Backoffice Cross-Module Data Mapping: Navigate design dependencies and capabilities and reporting solutions, connecting core financial modules to backoffice platforms including HCM, AP, AR, and Tax.
• Enterprise Software Configuration & Certification: Maintain technical proficiency in enterprise platforms, with preferred active Oracle Cloud Financials Implementation Professional credentials.
• Data Analytics & Enterprise Reporting: Assess enterprise reporting design using Power BI and Oracle EPM suites to optimize complex data analysis and pipeline performance.
• Drive cohesion across the team but focus efforts on the desired features, while ensuring that each team member is able to contribute to the product's goals
• Finance Close IT Orchestration: Act as the dedicated IT point of contact to ensure systems alignment, data integration health, and technical stability during critical period-end close windows.
• Participate in Agile SDLC activities, including planning, refinement, stand-ups and retrospectives. Provide support to manage iteration planning and refinement of user stories. Spotlight inter-dependencies among cross-product development teams to ensure seamless delivery
• Collaborate with other POs, and Product Executives to ensure the vision of the product is being met and that the product backlog is aligned with the program backlog
• Coordinate closely with the Product Executive to ensure alignment with the Outcome Based Product Roadmap and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
• Serve as a thought leader for a specific business and technology team and assists other leaders with the delegation of work assignments
• SLA Performance & Process Optimization: Monitor production issue backlogs, enforce IT team SLA compliance, and lead technical post-mortems to scale system efficiency and minimize batch runtimes
• Be "The Ideal Team Member" – Hungry, Humble, and Smart.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field, or equivalent, relevant work experience required.
• 6 or more years' experience as a Product Owner with Agile facilitation background, working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)
• Ability to write clear precise Scrum user stories for scrum teams
• Must have a bias for action and be comfortable in an ever changing or ambiguous environment
• Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks such as SAFe or Scrum@Scale
• Product Innovation, Design thinking and/or CX/UX experience is a plus
• Advanced Agile/ Scrum development background
• Familiarity in working in a SaaS environment
• PSM/PSPO OR SAFe POPM certifications preferred

Compensation Details $108,479 - $146,447 Annually