KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Strong influencing and negotiating skills
• Good communication and presentation skills - ability to communicate clearly with a high degree of clarity and professionalism
• Good understanding of project governance and lifecycle
• Solid analytical and organisational skills with the ability to review, challenge and influence solutions and processes
• Good numerical skills, confident using IT platforms to solve finance problems, conversant in the language of Finance from detail level up to C suite level
• Experience of financial reporting requirements; covering either statutory reporting, management reporting, or financial planning
• Able to operate on own initiative and be self-managing and work remotely
• Ability to manage diverse stakeholder relationships across the organisation
• Work collaboratively with 3rd Party consultants to deliver effective OneStream Financial Models
• Good personal skills and ability to apply pragmatism and diplomacy when needed
• Excellent requirements, Epics, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria specification
• Managing agile product backlogs in scrum
• Process and requirements modelling
• Data Modelling of financial data and CUBE/Star Schema
• Data Analysis Reconciliation
• Defect triage and classification of bug prioritisation and severity
• Financial modelling and statutory reporting platforms

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• 7+ years of direct experience of finance software implementations and delivery finance MI requirements
• Working understanding of the principles of accounting and EPM solutions
• 5+ years previous experience of working in a Global business environment
• 5+ years working in Agile Scrum as a Product Owner or BA
• Experience with OneStream beneficial
• Experience in extracting and analysing data from financial systems
• Demonstrable experience in agile delivery

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Facilitate and write requirements and acceptance criteria for Epics and Stories
• Ensure requirements and acceptance criteria are approved by stakeholders
• Review that proposed solution designs meet the requirements and acceptance criteria and ensure their acceptance
• Support the formulation and acceptance of key design decisions
• Validate implementation across sprint reviews and all testing phases, and provide feedback and raise bugs, facilitating the capture of test cases and test evidence
• Facilitate and perform Data Reconciliation
• Support and facilitate product backlog review, prioritisation and sizing sessions with the business and implementation team
• Manage and refine the product backlog to ensure it reflects the most recent priorities and sizing
• Support and facilitate the formulation of CRs and provide inputs into the impact assessment, cost benefits and recommendations
• Conduct and facilitate defect triage to ensure bugs vs feedback are correctly identified and agreed for resolution and/or backlog prioritisation