Senior Product Owner: Oracle Financial Cloud & Related Products
RemoteUnited States or Alexandria, Virginia, United States
United States or Alexandria, Virginia, United StatesRemoteFull TimeSenior LevelMedium
Full TimeSenior LevelMedium
Job Summary
Act as the voice of the customer to strategically prioritize product backlog epics, features, and stories across core financial streams including Accounting, Grants & Project Management, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Financial Close, and Budgeting & Planning. Draft concise epics and user stories with Business Analysts, ensuring metadata is captured for accurate roadmaps and reporting. Partner with the Portfolio Leader and stakeholders to establish feedback loops measuring ROI, audit readiness, and reporting accuracy. Manage the continuous Oracle Cloud COTS lifecycle, defining mandatory quarterly upgrade testing and validation stories to ensure non-profit specific configurations and compliance reports remain intact. Actively participate in delivery squad ceremonies and prepare for quarterly planning events. Define and support user acceptance testing for configuration changes and new module rollouts. Build and maintain strategic relationships with Oracle and third-party vendors for issue resolution and optimization of the ERP platform.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field or comparable years of proven practical experience supporting Oracle Cloud ERP or similar tier-one financial COTS solutions
- 7 – 8+ years of progressive professional experience in financial systems management, ERP product ownership, or business architecture
- 4+ years of direct, hands-on experience leading the implementation, optimization, configuration, and support of Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP modules (specifically General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Procurement, or PGM modules)
- 3+ years of experience leading cross-functional global delivery teams, managing product backlogs, and facilitating squad ceremonies in Agile ways of working (SAFe, Scrum, DAD, project management, or process improvement)
- Hands-on proficiency utilizing product management tools (such as Jira, Jira Product Discovery, and Confluence) to maintain backlog data integrity, metadata tagging, and real-time roadmap reporting
- Strong ability to articulate technical and financial concepts or plans, and facilitate working sessions with cross-functional teams and high-level stakeholders
- Proven experience building strategic relationships with external software vendors (like Oracle) for issue resolution, platform optimization, and facilitating alignment across Finance, Accounting, and Procurement
- Ability to work occasional nights and weekends to meet results
- Must lift up to 10 lbs
- Travel 11–20 days of travel per year, to include approximately quarterly visits to ASCO Headquarters
- Expertise in non-profit fund accounting
- Expertise in Oracle Cloud ERP (Financials, PGM, Procurement)
- Expertise in active collaboration with the Portfolio Lead and stakeholders to deliver maximum fiduciary value and maintain strict regulatory compliance through Scaled Agile methodologies
- Expertise in Order to Cash (O2C)
- Expertise in Procure to Pay (P2P)
- Expertise in Financial Close
- Expertise in Budgeting & Planning
- Expertise in Grants & Project Management (PGM)
- Expertise in Accounting
- Expertise in Finance
- Expertise in Oracle Cloud COTS lifecycle
- Expertise in defining mandatory quarterly upgrade testing and validation stories
- Expertise in ensuring non-profit specific configurations and compliance reports remain intact
- Expertise in defining and supporting user acceptance testing for configuration changes and new module rollouts
- Expertise in ensuring seamless integration with the organization's contract management solution
- Expertise in managing the continuous Oracle Cloud COTS lifecycle
- Expertise in defining priorities (Epics, Features, and Stories)
- Expertise in managing the backlog
- Expertise in ensuring streamlined execution
- Expertise in acting as the customer advocate for the organization's core financial integrity and compliance systems
- Expertise in drafting concise epics, features, and stories
- Expertise in capturing required metadata to enable an accurate product roadmap and reporting
- Expertise in drafting well defined user stories
- Expertise in creating acceptance criteria, definitions of done and failures
- Expertise in establishing feedback loops with the customer to measure and track the value delivered, specifically focusing on ROI, audit readiness, and reporting accuracy
- Expertise in contributing to the portfolio-level product roadmap by drafting Idea's in the lean business case format in the Jira Product Discovery board for roadmap consideration based on customer insights
- Expertise in building and maintaining strategic relationships with Oracle and third-party vendors for issue resolution and optimization of the ERP platform
- Expertise in managing competing priorities (e.g., compliance mandates vs. feature enhancements) and delivering value in complex environments
- Expertise in strong analytical, troubleshooting, and technical understanding
- Expertise in ability to lead without direct authority and influence stakeholders to align on the product vision and objectives
- Expertise in ability to think critically and solve multifaceted challenges/opportunities, analyze and solve complex problems
- Expertise in ability to understand business goals, market trends, and customer needs
- Expertise in excellent time management and prioritization skills
- Expertise in strong facilitation, communication and presentation skills
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience with EPM data integration, specifically bridging the gap between sub-ledger accounting, ERP financial data, and downstream budgeting and planning modules
- SAFe product owner certification or PO certification from a recognized organization such as Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org is a plus
- Deep functional understanding of non-profit accounting principles, grant compliance, and fund accounting
- Familiarity with other methodologies such as Kanban or Lean
- Experience with SAAS, PAAS, mobile apps, back-office systems, hardware, and services and various product categories a plus
- Experience building custom financial reports and data extracts (e.g., using Oracle OTBI/BIP)
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