Product Owner and Project Manager Finance Data Hub

Job Description:

Seeking a hands-on Project Manager and Product owner to lead a complex data technology transformation initiative. The ideal candidate will possess a strong blend of program management, product ownership, and stakeholder leadership skills to drive strategic products and enterprise programs from conception to execution.

This role will be responsible managing a multi-million-dollar program, aligning business and technology roadmaps, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional customer and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

Product Owner

• Product Vision & Strategy
• Define and execute the product vision, roadmap, business outcomes and strategy
• Drive adoption of enterprise data management practices and data-driven decision-making.

Project Manger

• Program & Project Leadership
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of the Finance Data Hub program across the development life cycle from initiation through production deployment including scope management, planning, resource allocation, dependency management, integration, and scheduling.
• Collaborate closely with track leads and Scrum master to maintain project plans, identify constraints and bottlenecks, and implement mitigation strategies.
• Monitor project progress, proactively identify risks and issues, manage dependencies, and drive timely resolution.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, dependencies, resource plans, and budgets.
• Establish and participate in program governance, steering committee forums, and executive reporting mechanisms.
• Manage scope, timelines, risks, and deliverables across multiple workstreams.

Work and Technical Experience:

12+ years of total experience with at least 7+ years of hands-on Product Owner experience

• Strong project management experience across the SDLC leveraging Agile project management
• Proven experience managing multiple stakeholders and cross functional teams
• Proven analytical, communication and leadership skills
• Strong hands-on experience as a Product Owner in a scaled agile environment, including PI Planning, backlog refinement, cross-team dependency management, sprint execution and alignment with Product Management, RTEs, Scrum Masters, architects, and delivery teams.
• Include require direct ownership of backlog prioritization, story readiness, acceptance criteria, scope trade-offs, and acceptance or rejection of delivered work.
• Project delivery expertise on data engineering, data migration, data foundation buildout and data analytics using BI tools
• Expertise in project management processes and communication including tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps.
• Client stakeholder management to ensure program deliverables are achieved
• Conduct detailed impact analysis on new requirements to ensure all dependencies are addressed
• Tracking and delivering complex projects with multiple stakeholders
• Communication with business users to understand the requirements and complete associated requirements documentation for technical teams

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master (CSM), PMI-ACP and Product Owner Certification (CSPO/PSPO).
• Knowledge of insurance process flows
• Experience in corporate finance projects
• Experience with an ERP modernization initiative
• Finance domain expertise General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Assets, etc.
• Others Data Governance & Quality, Analytics and reporting enablement, experience on scalable integration with upstream (ERP and other source systems) and downstream systems

Key Skills

• Product Strategy & Roadmap Management
• Agile & Scrum Methodologies
• Project Planning, execution and reporting
• Stakeholder Management
• Risk & Issue Management
• Backlog Prioritization
• Business Analysis
• Budget & Resource Management
• Leadership & Team Management
• Communication & Presentation Skills