Key Responsibilities:
Requirements Analysis and Solution Design
- Drive creating value for customers by translating customer needs into meaningful solutions.
- Apply expertise to manage product requirements, and deliver product optimisation.
- Introduce new tools and practices that will enhance the user experience.
- Drive selection of solution options, working with IT to assess technical solutions to increase value.
- Provide business context to ensure solution meets business needs and support business owner to provide clear guidelines in terms of business expectations.
- Lead the integrations design based on business needs and best practices, while evaluating the impact thereof.
- Prioritization and Value Management:
- Maximise the value produced by the team and ensuring stories meet the users’ needs.
- Gather the requirements for the product and capture them in the form of a product backlog, consisting of user stories with acceptance criteria.
- Work with business owners in determining the value of the deliverables.
- Prioritise the delivery team’s backlog assessing benefit vs. effort and ensuring alignment to strategic business needs on an ongoing basis.
- Ensure the teams focus on delivering the highest value items first.
Product and Operational Delivery
- Continuous refinement and sequencing of the Product Backlog.
- PI planning preparation – confirm business priorities, and lead conversations on cross team dependencies.
- Define user stories (with clear acceptance criteria) with extensive domain knowledge.
- Participate in Iteration/Sprint planning and solution demonstrations with stakeholders/business owners.
- Make business decisions to ensure the end-to-end build of a solution works as designed.
- Oversee the planning and execution of testing by Finance ERP team, act as a subject matter expert drafting test scenarios and test cases, and provide approval.
- Support Business Process Owner to plan and execute User Acceptance Testing.
- Responsible for approval of final test results.
- Apply compliance requirements within scope of responsibility, ensuring documentation, system configuration and compliance activities are current.
- Drive reporting and analytics to provide visibility on the Finance ERP Teams performance, and monitor sprint metrics and user results.
Leadership and Stakeholder Management
- Shape the Finance ERP vision & roadmap - communicate and align the vision and strategy across product and technology teams.
- Align the stakeholder needs across business areas and engage with stakeholders on the product development process and product management mindset.
- Steer the team in delivering products and features oriented around business impact.
- Empower and inspire the team to deliver their best.
- Interact with other teams as part of synchronization ceremonies to implement cross-team tasks.
- Drive engagement with third parties to support delivery of team objectives.
- Plan resourcing for the teams (i.e. new role, change in role), create requests, interview, select and onboard members to join the team.
- Drive continuous improvement across the product lifecycle.
Skills:
- Proficiency in ERP systems, integration, maintenance, and reporting.
- Analytical and project management skills.
- Deadlines and results driven.
- Ability to work under pressure with agility.
- Excellent problem solving and communication skills.
Qualification and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, information systems or related field.
- Chartered Accountant (SA) qualification is a plus.
- Scaled Agile and Product Owner certification is desirable.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Finance ERP applications and processes.
- Experience in performing the role of the Product Owner.
Competencies and Behaviours for Success:
- Communicates Effectively - conveys information and communicates ideas in a clear, concise and impactful manner.
- Customer Focus - understands, anticipates, and meets the needs and expectations of customers.
- Ensures Accountability - takes accountability and ensures others are held to account on agreed upon performance targets.
- Financial Acumen - understands and applies financial concepts and principles to make informed financial decisions.
- Instills Trust - inspires trust and gains the confidence of others by displaying honesty and integrity.
- Manages Complexity - interprets and simplifies complex and contradictory information when resolving organisational problems.
- Optimizes Work Processes - assesses and improves the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of various work processes.
- Organizational Savvy - understands and navigates dynamics created by processes, systems, and people.
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Preference will be given, but not limited to candidates from designated groups in terms of the Employment Equity Act.
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