Senior Product Owner

Senior Product Owner

Workday Finance Transformation | Enterprise Data Hub on Azure | Insurance

Location:  Cary, NC (hybrid; onsite several days per week)

Experience:  8+ years

Must have exp with ERP Finance

Required

8+ years in ERP Finance, Finance Systems, finance data, business analysis, functional consulting, or product ownership, including time as the accountable Product Owner or functional lead on a significant workstream.

Strong functional knowledge of Finance modules in at least one major ERP platform: Workday, PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics.

Solid command of GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, financial close, reconciliations, financial controls, and financial reporting.

Demonstrated experience on ERP implementation, modernization, migration, or finance transformation programs, ideally including at least one full lifecycle through go-live.

Proven ability to elicit requirements and produce user stories, acceptance criteria, process and data documentation, and UAT scenarios.

Comfort operating across both worlds: credible with CFO-organization stakeholders and equally effective with data engineers on mappings, transformations, and defects.

Experience in Agile delivery using Jira, Azure DevOps, or a comparable backlog-management tool.

Excellent communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and problem-solving skills; able to drive decisions in ambiguity.

Ability to work a hybrid schedule from Cary, NC.

Preferred

Insurance or financial services experience, with exposure to statutory reporting, insurance accounting (STAT/GAAP), or data from actuarial, investment, reinsurance, or risk functions.

Hands-on experience with PeopleSoft Financials and/or Workday Financial Management, including Workday integration patterns (EIB, Core Connectors, Prism) or FDM design.

Experience with finance data migration, data integration, data warehousing, or building certified data products.

Familiarity with Azure, Databricks, ADF, ADLS Gen 2, Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, or Snowflake, enough to reason about feasibility and cost with engineers.

Exposure to FP&A, budgeting, planning, consolidation, procurement, or enterprise reporting tools (e.g., Adaptive, Anaplan, Power BI, OneStream).

Product Owner, Agile/Scrum (CSPO, PSPO), ERP Finance, or accounting certification (CPA, CMA) a plus.

What Success Looks Like

You know the Finance stakeholder map, the current close and reporting pain points, and the state of the PeopleSoft-to-Workday data mapping.

A groomed, prioritized Finance backlog exists, with acceptance criteria the engineering team can work from.

Finance requirements are clearly understood, documented, and correctly sequenced for the Data Hub team.

Finance data flowing from PeopleSoft and Workday through the hub is accurate, reconciled, documented, and reporting-ready.

Finance stakeholders rely on trusted data products instead of legacy extracts and manual spreadsheets.

The engineering team has the functional guidance it needs to build the right solution the first time.

The patterns, standards, and governance established in Finance are reusable for the Actuarial, Investment, Reinsurance, and Risk phases.