Finance ERP Product Owner - Western Cape at TFG (The Foschini Group)

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
• Working 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 leading conversations on cross team dependencies
• Defining 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 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 skill

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