Technical Product Owner

Skill Set

·       Accounting, Planning & Projections, Cashflow, Expense, Disclosures, FP&A, Tax, Treasury,

·       financial services/fintech

·       regulatory reporting

·       Insurance Domain

·       Product Owner / BA

·       Workday Finance

Responsibilities

·       Lead/support multiple data platform projects simultaneously from concept through production deployment

·       Partner with Product Managers, Finance/Actuarial stakeholders, and client services to capture business requirements for Accounting, Planning & Projections, Cashflow, Expense, Disclosures, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, plus insurance domains (policies, claims, pricing, reserves).

·       Create and maintain comprehensive project artifacts: user stories, API specifications, process flows, RBAC/audit requirements, prototype designs for gold-layer data access.

·       Act as Project Manager for key initiatives; drive engineering/QA through SDLC phases (analysis, design, development, testing, deployment) using Agile ceremonies.

·       Manage project governance: schedules, risk registers, executive reporting, dependency tracking across data engineering, platform, and compliance teams.

·       Take ownership of critical issues, enlist proper representation from other support teams and drive towards resolution.

Qualifications

·       12+ years as a Technical Product Owner/Business Analyst in financial services/fintech

·       Deep financial services domain expertise across Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, Cashflow, regulatory reporting plus insurance experience (policies, underwriting, claims, reserving) highly preferred.

·       Proven experience crafting detailed user stories, API specifications, and wireframes for data/AI products serving external/internal consumers.

·       Practitioner-level mastery of product ownership frameworks, Agile/Scrum, and SDLC with hands-on delivery of complex data projects.

·       Demonstrated success productizing technical concepts into revenue-generating or cost-saving offerings.

·       Exceptional analytical/problem-solving skills; can translate ambiguous business needs into actionable technical requirements.

·       Proven team leadership, project management, and group facilitation skills

·       Detail-oriented and possess excellent oral, written, and organizational skills

·       Has a strong can do attitude and can build relationships with stakeholders both horizontally and vertically across the organization

Preferred Qualifications

·       Familiarity with insurance-specific data flows.

·       PMP/Scrum Master certification or equivalent.