We are seeking experienced Product Owner(s) / Senior Business Systems Analysts to join the Corporate Finance Portfolio at a large wealth management client to translate product vision into an actionable backlog and lead day-to-day delivery of innovative, industry-leading Digital Finance capabilities across Branch Economics and Financial Advisor compensation
• Own and manage the product backlog for assigned product areas and value streams within the Digital Finance Portfolio, acting as the day-to-day owner of related capabilities and outcomes. Translate portfolio/product strategy into features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria, and prioritize work to align with firm objectives, business needs, and market trends.
• Drive clarity, decisions, and acceptance to enable delivery of complex enhancements and new capabilities by driving requirements clarity, scope tradeoffs, and release readiness to meet evolving needs across Branch teams, Financial Advisors, and Financial Analysts.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (technology, operations, business, compliance, legal, risk) to plan and execute increments, improve usability and efficiency, remove blockers, and ensure high-quality outcomes through effective testing and acceptance
• Own the Team Product Backlog refinement and prioritization by ensuring backlog is refined, sized, dependency aware. Confirm acceptance criteria, NFRs, and control requirements for planned scope.
• Own the Team Product Backlog; prioritize, refine, and maintain readiness (stories, defects, enablers) aligned to PI Objectives and firm goals.
• Partner with Product Management to translate portfolio/product strategy into features and stories; define clear acceptance criteria, NFRs, and control/audit requirements.
• Enable sprint and PI execution by setting Sprint Goals, making scope tradeoffs, resolving requirement ambiguities quickly, and maintaining a decision log.
• Coordinate cross-functional alignment (technology, operations, compliance, legal, risk) to ensure testability, acceptance, release readiness, and operational handoffs.
• Support PI Planning by presenting/refining team scope, negotiating dependencies, and drafting team PI Objective inputs and capacity-based scope proposals.
• Translate product intent into a clear Sprint Goal and top outcomes (what success looks like)
• Provide transparent status, risks, and impediments to Agile Release Train (ART)
• Communicate backlog priorities, delivery progress, risks and key scope decisions to ART stakeholders and Product leadership, ensuring transparency on controls, dependencies, and delivery risks/impediments across the Sprints, Program Increments, and release plan.
• Ensure backlog readiness for sprints, drive continuous improvements, align stakeholders, manage scope changes, close the loops from spring review feedbacks, convert learnings to backlog updates
• Lead backlog refinement with engineers and business analysts; align with Technical Lead/Architect on solution constraints, sequencing, and technical enablers
• Define data flows and source-to-target mappings across HCM, payroll, finance, mainframe, and performance systems.
• Configure participant eligibility, transaction classification, crediting rules, compensation plans, rate tables, and calculation sequencing.
• Identify and define outbound integrations and support Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) issue resolution.
• Develop reporting solutions using OTBI and BI Publisher.
Required Skills & Qualifications (Product Owner)
• 6+ years of experience as a Product Owner (or closely related roles such as Product Delivery Manager / Business Analyst) delivering digital products
• Prior working knowledge of Oracle Fusion ICM (in functional and/or technical capacity)
• Experience configuring the following Oracle ICM (or similar systems) - participant eligibility, transaction classification, crediting rules, compensation plans, rate tables, and calculation sequencing
• Experience on Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)
• Understanding of reporting solutions using OTBI and BI Publisher.
• Prior experience owning and managing a product backlog for one or more Agile teams, including prioritization, refinement, and release planning.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills; able to break down ambiguous problems into clear epics, features, and user stories.
• Proven ability to translate product goals into well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, and Definition of Done/Ready to support end-to-end delivery.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills to simplify complexity, align stakeholders, and drive clarity for delivery decisions.
• Strong decision-making skills: make timely trade-offs across customer value, business goals, technical feasibility, and regulated/financial services constraints.
• Practical experience working in Agile delivery (SAFe preferred; Scrum/Kanban), including participating in ceremonies and supporting the team through sprint execution.
• Familiarity with product delivery and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Aha!, Mural, Asana).
Good-to-Have Skills (Highly Desirable)
• Strong customer advocacy and ability to represent user needs in backlog decisions and acceptance criteria.
• Finance industry experience and comfort operating in regulated environments (risk, controls, compliance).
• Ability to balance technical constraints (architecture, dependencies, performance/non-functional requirements) with business objectives.
• Comfort making decisions with incomplete information; “bias for action” in execution.
• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills, especially around prioritization, scope, and dependency trade-offs.
