Product Owner - Finance Systems

What you'll do

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The Product Owner, Finance Systems will serve as a key technology partner to Finance, Accounting, Tax, and related business teams, helping shape and deliver product capabilities across enterprise finance platforms such as Looker, Oracle and BlackLine. In this role, you will lead and develop a small team while owning and prioritizing the product backlog, translating business needs into clear requirements, supporting project initiatives, and partnering across business, technology, vendor, and support teams to deliver solutions that improve financial processes, controls, reporting, and user experience. The ideal candidate is a collaborative, outcome-focused people leader who can coach and grow talent[CB1.1][EB1.2], balance strategic roadmap priorities with day-to-day operational needs, and communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities • Own sprint backlog and implementation of new product initiatives. Prioritizes product backlog working against established roadmap and coordinating dependencies with other POs. Manages portfolio of IT initiatives to ensure proper prioritization and delivery of initiatives on time and on budget• Manage the steady-state product backlog for assigned Finance capabilities, balancing enhancements, break/fix needs, compliance requests, and business priorities.• Maintain clear visibility to intake, prioritization decisions, dependencies, delivery status, and tradeoffs across product work and funded project initiatives.• Partner with Project Managers and delivery teams on project initiatives to align scope, milestones, decisions, risks, and business readiness to the approved product roadmap.• Ensure project work is planned with a clear handoff back to steady-state product ownership, including support model, backlog impacts, and adoption needs.

• Responsible for development of business case and completing competitive analysis to inform short- and long-term product vision. Incorporates this knowledge when prioritizing features for releases. Makes tradeoff decisions between scope (value in expected ROI) and schedule (higher operating expense in longer release cycles) to reflect the best interests of business owners and end users.• Translate business strategy, product health, vendor capability, financial impact, and user feedback into practical roadmap recommendations.• Support annual planning and project intake by shaping initiative objectives, business value, cost considerations, dependency impacts, and expected outcomes.• Evaluate whether work should be handled as product lifecycle enhancement, operational care and feeding, vendor release, or a time-boxed project initiative.• Use business case inputs to guide prioritization and make transparent recommendations when scope, timing, budget, or capacity constraints require tradeoffs.

• As part of planning, decomposes feature(s) into user Stories and establishes Story acceptance criteria. Defines the definition of done.• Convert business needs into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and definition of done that are clear enough for delivery teams to execute.• Document requirements at the appropriate level of detail while keeping traceability to the business objective, roadmap item, or project initiative.• Clarify what success looks like for enhancements, releases, and project deliverables, including UAT expectations and business approval criteria.• Partner with