Sr. Product Owner, IT Finance

Syniti enables agile enterprises with silo-free enterprise data management that helps turn complex data challenges into competitive advantages. With a unified, learning platform and one of the world’s largest teams of data-focused experts, enterprises and global alliance partners choose Syniti when they require trusted data to ignite business growth and reduce risks. Syniti is a portfolio company of BridgeGrowth Partners LLC. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with offices in 25 countries around the world, Syniti operates in all global regions and industry verticals, and maintains a 99.7% client success rate across thousands of complex data projects and initiatives.

SUMMARY

The Senior IT Finance Product Owner is responsible for being a strategic partner to the Accounting and Finance department in driving a Best Practice workflows and accounting practices across the global organization. You will provide hands-on leadership for developing and implementing Finance digital strategies and will provide oversight for the systems and applications in area of responsibility, ensuring delivery of effective, agile, and integrated technology solutions that support those best practices. You will be able to deliver insights and strategies using Data as your primary driver. You will be an active participant in determining priorities for the organizations. You will be able to lead a project or participate as an SME as appropriate across a breadth of project and change controls.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be a trusted partner to peers, developing and driving the function’s digital technology strategy to achieve strategic and operational goals in a customer-focused manner, to build consistent experiences for our employees including scaling digital solutions
• Partner with stakeholders in developing the technology portfolio (roadmap), including design, architecture, implementation, security, and compliance of systems and applications in area of responsibility
• Create Project Charters, strategy documents, requirement documents, user stories, testing plans, training plans, etc. to manage continual improvement processes and projects as they are prioritized and track progress across time, budget and milestones.
• Collaborate effectively with other groups and leaders across and throughout the organizational landscape
• Be a thought leader on accounting best practices
• Lead solution architecture including application integration and security
• Responsible for vendor management, including product and vendor evaluation, contract negotiation, supplier relationship management, and consulting management
• Work cross-functionally to affect improvements to the experience by designing and implementing processes, solutions, and metrics that enhance the overall business workflows within the organizations
• Develop and transform business requirements into technical requirements in an agile manner
• Assist with adoption and usage of experience and systems changes and/or new launches across area of expertise (i.e., organizational change management efforts)
• Ensure internal tools are simple and effective that encourage adoption
• Analyze, create and troubleshoot systems (including integrations) under responsibility to meet business requirements through configuration, SQL queries, etc. as appropriate
• Manage access to systems under responsibility ensuring appropriate access for users
• Lead and influence with industry best practices and proven methodologies for experiences, end-to-end process improvement, scalability, and automation to support company growth
• Analyze and report metrics on systems activities in support of strategic decision-making initiatives and for ongoing measurement and continual improvement
• Plan and manage upgrades for systems in area of responsibilities at regular cadences
• Create and/or assist in developing and managing the execution and documentation of business workflow processes
• Maintain knowledge of advancements in best practices, technologies, and tools in area of responsibility.

QUALIFICATIONS

• BS/BA degree
• Experience utilizing SaaS technology
• Experience leading and motivating diverse, cross-functional teams and establishing an agile, product-centric operating model
• Able to communicate in a visual manner
• Experience leading digital, data, analytics, and/or technology organizations in Finance digital stacks
• Experience working with all levels of management and consulting with key business stakeholders. Demonstrated executive presence and communication skills with an ability to influence for greater outcomes
• Highly motivated, decisive, and results-oriented individual with the flexibility and creativity to excel in a rapidly growing and changing environment
• Knowledge of Accounting and Financial principles
• Big picture thought leader with ability to dive deep, working individually, within multi-disciplinary teams, as well as with external partners and vendors
• Experience with Change Control, incident response, and release management
• Experience handling sensitive, confidential information.

EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years in financial systems with preferred experience in Dynamics GP
• Knowledge of contemporary and Finance digitalization approaches
• Proven success in organizational change management
• Proven success in continual improvement
• 3+ years managing others in delivering digital solutions
• 2+ years SQL query or other database interrogation/manipulation scripting languages.

Syniti is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.