Product Owner – Finance and Tax

Product Owner – Finance and Tax

Requirements

• Associate’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Computer Science, Engineering, or related area required.
• 7+ years of experience in a Product Owner and/or Business Analyst role with a focus on Finance and Tax, or direct business experience in Finance and Tax.
• Advanced knowledge of SAP Finance (Record to Report) and Tax business processes, including financial implications.
• Experience using product management tools such as Jira.
• Knowledge of SAP S4/HANA v2019 or higher.
• Strong experience with defining solution strategies, analyzing systems requirements, and developing business features that illustrate desired business capabilities.
• Strong demonstration of Agile methodologies and techniques through hands-on management of product features, detailed user stories, prioritizing backlogs, and participating in Agile ceremonies.
• Direct hands-on experience with grooming backlogs and coordinating and prioritizing conflicting requirements.
• Ability to translate metrics into business decisions of importance and priorities.
• Successful track record of delivering projects within deadlines and budgets.
• Excellent verbal, written, listening and presentation communication skills.
• Ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding with the technical and the business teams.
• Strong organizational and planning skills as well as attention to detail.
• Ability to effectively work and create effective partnerships with employees at all levels within the organization.
• Ability to anticipate and understand business strategies, objectives and priorities.
• Strong leader that possesses a hands-on, lead by example approach.
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Ability to adapt to a continually changing business and work environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and decision making skills.
• Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to provide oversight across multiple initiatives or projects.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information.
• Strong English language skills, both written and speaking.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision, product roadmap and growth opportunities for Corporate Finance and Tax.
• Prioritize epics, features and stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value and are aligned with product strategy. Incorporate feature requests into product roadmap.
• Responsible for managing and clearly expressing Product Backlog items that demonstrate business outcomes/benefits.
• Provide elaboration of the user stories and confirm understanding of the items in the Product Backlog.
• Deliver a visible, transparent, and clear Product Backlog to all using product management tools such as Jira.
• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on and understanding of what the Scrum Team will work on next.
• Work closely with the scrum team throughout the development process.
• Lead the product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities.
• Plan releases and upgrades; set sprint goals. Follow progress of work and address production issues during sprints.
• Work with business stakeholders, IT Business Partners, and other team members to understand business opportunities and strategy, drive development of solutions that support short- and long-term objectives and ensure stakeholder needs are reflected in backlog.
• Understand, create, and implement test plan, automation, and validation procedures based on stated product features and acceptance criteria.
• Analyze test findings as needed to determine whether they constitute a defect against existing requirements or a request for enhancement.
• Other projects and job duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Computer Science, Engineering, or related area preferred.
• For those candidates without a bachelor’s degree, 10+ years of relevant experience is required.
• Certifications from either Scrum Alliance (CSP/A-CSPO) or Scaled Agile (Certified SAFe Product Owner/Manager) preferred.
• Global project experience and experience working with Brazil preferred.
• Experience in filling the role of Product Owner role in either Scrum or Scaled Agile Framework methodologies preferred.
• Portuguese written and speaking language skills are preferred.