Product Owner

Title: Product Owner

Location: Okemos, MI (Hybrid) - Need only locals to Michigan

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Summary:

We are looking for a Finance Product Owner who serves as the primary liaison between Finance stakeholders and technology delivery teams, ensuring financial products, platforms, and processes are aligned with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and operational needs.

Responsibilities:

• Partners with key business owners, customers, account relationship managers, and other stakeholders in order to identify user/customer needs and to develop a product roadmap.
• Partners with the application development team in order to relay user experiences and necessary product features, including participating in daily standup meetings.
• Acts as a resource, subject matter expert, and single point of contact for the business and application development teams.
• Reviews new product feature requests and current backlogs and prioritizes work.
• Participates in writing and refining user stories and acceptance criteria, testing and demonstrating new product features and changes, and training users/customers.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and recommends action plans to department management.
• Participates in the development of departmental strategies, goals, and objectives.

Requirements:

• Bachelor s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Finance, Mathematics, or a related field
• Five (5) years of experience analyzing, documenting, maintaining, organizing, recommending, supporting, testing, or troubleshooting business needs, system requirements, or process workflows
• Three (3) years of information technology experience leading teams and/or projects that require customized software solutions
• Understanding of SQL, with the ability to write and interpret SQL statements
• Experience working with major ERP solutions, with an understanding of basic accounting principles, including accounts receivable and accounts payable
• Experience working in or supporting a finance or accounting functions
• Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, and experience

Preferred Skills:

• Experience using PeopleSoft (Version 9.2 or higher)
• Experience supporting commission-based payments to Producers in a medical / Dental insurance market
• Experience working in a SAFe Agile development methodology
• Experience supporting Accounts Receivable functions
• Experience with insurance premium calculation, including:
• Dental, Vision, Life & Disabilit