Your role
As a IT Product Owner - Operational Finance and HR, your mission is to your mission is to define and deliver the product vision, strategy and roadmap for operational finance solutions, maximising business value through robust, secure and customer-focused technology. You will report to the Head of Product - Enterprise Functions.
You will:
- Partner with key business stakeholders and the Product Manager to shape business requirements and define product strategies aligned with wider business goals and priorities.
- Lead the Product team in delivering the product roadmap and valuable, robust and secure technology solutions.
- Translate business needs into high-level product requirements, prioritise and manage the product backlog, and align product capacity with portfolio priorities.
- Take accountability for product performance, including delivery velocity, roadmap delivery, issue resolution, security, compliance and risk management.
- Act as an escalation point for the Product team and business stakeholders, resolving issues and balancing competing priorities.
- Work with Solution Architects to shape integrated, cross-product solutions and manage dependencies.
- Build a continuous improvement culture that strengthens product performance, team productivity and business outcomes.
- Advise business and IS stakeholders on technology developments and potential functional opportunities.
To succeed, you will need
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and are excited to see what you bring to the role.
You will have around 10 years of relevant industry experience, including managing IT delivery from requirements gathering through to deployment.
- Proven experience defining and delivering product strategies and roadmaps that create measurable business value.
- Strong expertise in operational finance processes and related technologies, including SAP ECC FI-CO, MM, SD and Power BI, as well as template rollouts.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with senior business stakeholders and translate high-level requirements into practical technology solutions.
- Line management experience, with the ability to lead, coach and develop specialist finance and/or IT professionals.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to explain complex technology to non-technical audiences.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to develop product use cases and determine their value.
- Project management experience delivering small to medium-scale solutions.
- Experience applying Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, and supporting teams to strengthen their Agile ways of working.
- Knowledge of product performance measures, with experience improving outcomes such as defect rates, downtime, team productivity, KPIs, return on investment and profit-and-loss impact.
- Awareness of automation and agentic AI principles would be an advantage.
In return, we offer
- Culture of trust and accountability
- Lifelong learning and career growth
- Innovation powered by people
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits
- Health and well-being
Job location
This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on-site at our sites in the United Kingdom or Czech Republic.
Contact information
Talent Acquisition Team: Kirsty George