Job Title: Product Owner/Business Analyst
Position Type: Contract
Location: Remote
Job Description:
Business Analyst / Product Owner Proxy: Leads business and regulatory reporting discovery, stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, process analysis, and report prioritization. Translates business needs into reporting specifications, process flows, source-to-output mappings, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Owns functional backlog refinement, provides business clarification throughout implementation, and coordinates UAT and business validation to ensure automated reporting solutions meet regulatory, laboratory, and operational reporting requirements
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead business and regulatory reporting requirements, translating stakeholder needs into functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and automation specifications.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and SME interviews to analyze current-state reporting processes, pain points, manual activities, data sources, and automation opportunities.
• Develop and prioritize the reporting automation backlog and roadmap based on business value, regulatory risk, data readiness, complexity, and implementation dependencies.
• Partner with architects, data engineers, reporting developers, and QA to define source-to-output mappings, business rules, reporting workflows, validation controls, and target reporting solutions.
• Support UAT and business validation, ensuring automated reports meet functional, regulatory, data quality, and traceability requirements.
• Serve as the bridge between business stakeholders and delivery teams, providing functional clarification and supporting backlog refinement throughout implementation.
Mandatory Skills
• Strong Business Analysis / Product Owner experience in reporting, analytics, or automation programs.
• Experience with laboratory, scientific, quality, or regulatory reporting environments.
• Ability to translate complex business processes into requirements and implementable user stories.
• Experience facilitating workshops with business SMEs and technical teams.
• Understanding of reporting/data concepts including source systems, data mappings, transformations, business rules, data quality, and traceability.
• Familiarity with Power BI, Power Platform, data lakehouse/data platforms, system integrations, and automated reporting solutions.
• Experience with Agile delivery, backlog management, UAT, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability.
• Experience in regulated environments is strongly preferred.
