Senior Product Owner Manager - Global Treasury
Corporate Finance Enablement is looking for a Senior Product Owner (SPO) to lead a portfolio of work focused on Global Treasury systems, including Payment Hub and the new OneGL SAP Treasury, Accounts Payable and Fixed Asset systems. The SPO will report directly to the Director, Strategic Projects in this highly visible role, as well as lead a team of Product Owners and Associate Product Owners supporting agile squads.
Effective portfolio and customer-facing team relationships are key to our success, with the SPO building those relationships and driving the team to fulfill those foundational products and services. The SPO will lead a team that operates at the intersection of business and technology to ultimately deliver highly consumable services.
This leader will be responsible for articulating and translating the overall Global Treasury vision into strategy and direction and contributing to outcomes and key KPI's tied directly to business objectives. The SPO works closely with Treasury and key stakeholders in GRM and GRS to define and prioritize the product backlog, sets quality standards for delivery, and represents the platform which must be scalable, compliant, performant and easily consumed by other teams. This leader is also responsible for overseeing a set of products and working closely with Liberty IT (LIT) and Global Finance Technology (GFT) leadership to ensure teams are appropriately resourced, focused on the key priorities, and have alignment between roadmaps to achieve objectives.
About the Role:
- Sets ambitious and clear strategy, develops comprehensive portfolio vision, and translates into specific feature strategies and roadmaps. Communicates strategy effectively to key stakeholders and team members.
- Knowledge of treasury and payment processes strongly desired.
- Owns alignment of development and business resources on goals and priorities while working with stakeholders and team to remove roadblocks to execution.
- Responsible and accountable for assigned portfolio-level key performance indicators (KPI's) and manages product and/or service with a medium-to-high degree of strategy, KPI, scope, complexity, etc.
- Ensures the proper controls, processes and business procedures are maintained for the shared services owned by the portfolio.
- Manage backlog influenced by Imperative teams and directly within their own platform
- Owns portfolio backlog (grooming, prioritization and refinement)
- Manages effectively across priorities and roadmaps.
- Partners with IT and Business leaders to both understand the benefit of and drive technology modernization alongside business delivery
- Leads the analysis of feasibility, cost ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential programs.
- Establishes and manages support processes for Global SAP deployments
- Direct management responsibility for a team of product owners and associate product owners.
Please note this posting is open to multiple locations or remote. Compensation will vary based on location, experience and education.
Qualifications
- Advanced knowledge of Agile development methodologies as typically acquired through a Bachelors' degree in relevant field (business, computer science, etc.); Master's degree preferred.
- Minimum of 10 years' experience in business, engineering, technology and/or consulting; 3-5 years Supervisory or Management experience.
- Product Owner experience within Treasury, Payment Hub or other related area.
- High level of proven business expertise needed to set clear priorities for product and understand business value impacts.
- Technical proficiency required to oversee quarterly & sprint planning and to have an informed, independent voice.
- Strong influencing skills to be seen as the decision maker when interfacing with business, and willingness to dissent with both teams and business.
- Ability to influence a diverse group of stakeholders through strong leadership skills
- Ability to coach and inspire both direct reports and matrixed teams.
- Comfortable with making decisions with some level of uncertainty in a fast-paced working environment
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to convey information clearly and concisely
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