Position: Product Owner|Only W2
Location: HYBRID position requiring 2 in-office days at local Deloitte office p/week
Duration: 11 + months
A Product Owner (PO) for digital finance products owns the day-to-day delivery of finance capabilities within a digital product team, translating business outcomes into a prioritized product backlog and clear user stories. The PO partners with Finance stakeholders, Product Management, Engineering, and Risk/Compliance to refine requirements, define acceptance criteria, manage dependencies, support testing and release readiness, ensure delivered features improve finance processes, controls, and reporting.
Required Skills & Qualifications (Product Owner)
• Bachelor’s degree (Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field); MBA/advanced degree preferred.
• 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner (or closely related roles such as Product Delivery Manager / Business Analyst) delivering Finance products.
• Strong domain experience in FP&A and Core Finance
• 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.
• Ability to define and track outcome and delivery metrics (e.g., adoption, usability, cycle time, defects) and use insights to adjust priorities.
• Strong collaboration and influence without authority across stakeholders (business, engineering, operations, legal, compliance, risk).
• 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.
• Working knowledge of digital finance platforms/architecture and integrations; familiarity (ability to partner effectively with engineers/architects) with technologies in Enterprise Performance Management such as , OneStream (highly preferred), Oracle Fusion – EPM, Hyperion or equivalent
• 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.
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