Finance Senior Product Owner

Senior Product Owner

Overview:
seeking a dedicated and experienced Finance Product Owner to manage the
product lifecycle for assigned products. This includes managing the vision and roadmap for
products and services based on input from stakeholders, customers, market research and
industry insight. The ideal candidate will have a strong background working with billing and
accounting, financial systems, along with a deep understanding of financial processes within a
legal environment. Experience with Aderant is highly preferred.

This role works under minimal supervision, relying on experience and judgment to ensure the
appropriate activities have been carried out for new applications. The successful candidate will
demonstrate proficiency with a highly collaborative approach, exhibiting excellent problem
solving, organizational and interpersonal skills.

This position is ideally located in Houston, Texas, but can be based in any of our US offices. We
offer a hybrid schedule which is primarily remote with in-office meetings as needed each month.
The position reports into the Application Portfolio Manager.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to
Developing and maintaining advanced functional knowledge of finance business process
related to assigned applications and use of systems integrated assigned applications.
Defining the vision, strategy, roadmap, release plan, and ongoing prioritization assigned
finance applications; including defining the minimum viable product for releases
Managing the finance product lifecycle from concept to decommissioning; including
managing the product and release backlog
Understanding and Defining customer problems, use cases, value propositions
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of financial systems with
business objectives.
Validation of customer pain points and requirements while acting as the primary point of
contact for all finance-related product inquiries and issues.
Partnering with stakeholders to develop business cases to gain approval for product or
service investment

Partnering with Enterprise Architecture in vendor selection and management to ensure
alignment to product delivery strategy
Coordinating with UX to ensure design meets functional needs
Ensuring traceability of requirements from stakeholders to product release
Partnering with the Change Management and Training teams to develop and implement
a successful change management and training program
Soliciting user feedback for product and delivery improvement
Collaborating with peers to determine resource needs on projects and sustaining teams.
Conducting and participating as needed in reviews for requirements, application design
testing strategy, and change control activities
Communicating status and change requests to stakeholders
Point of Contact within the Application Services team to share overall customer needs,
vision, and direction. Agile execution through management of the product backlog,
epics, user stories, iteration plans and feature acceptance.
Coordinating with stakeholders to develop acceptance criteria, sample data, and User
Acceptance Testing
Providing inputs into end-user training, materials, and support
Prioritizing features for releases based upon agreed Critical Success Factors including
features and bug fixes
Making tradeoff decisions between scope and schedule within agreed constraints

Other duties:
Please note this job description does not cover or contain all activities, duties or responsibilities
that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change
at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications:
Bachelor s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information science,
or Business -related field preferred
Minimum three years of experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner
Minimum of three years of experience in a finance or accounting role, preferably within a
law firm.
Strong understanding of billing and accounting processes.
Experience with financial software systems; Aderant experience is highly preferred.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Detail-oriented with a high level of accuracy in work.
Proficient in using Product, and Requirements management tools like Azure DevOps
Proficient with Excel and other core Microsoft applications
Requires knowledge of the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and must be
able to execute within both Agile and Waterfall deliveries of the SDLC
Proficiency in analyzing software applications and assessing individual features and
modules to determine fit for business purpose
Preferred experience in the legal industry
Preferred experience with Finance solutions
Preferred certifications: Product Owner Professional (PO)