Workday Financials Platform Owner

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• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution 

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• Career advancement opportunities 

• Student loan repayment options 

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments 

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General Summary:

This role serves as the Workday Financials Platform Owner within Finance Technology, leading application support and platform strategy for Workday and supporting other key Finance tools. The successful candidate will partner closely with Finance stakeholders, cross-functional Workday leads (including HR, sourcing, and IT), and the vendor to deliver both tactical support and strategic enhancements. We’re looking for someone who is energized by the possibilities of Workday Financials and eager to champion innovation – whether through quick wins or transformative initiatives. A background in accounting or finance, or a demonstrated ability to collaborate deeply with those teams, is highly valued. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of Finance technology at Unum while driving meaningful impact across the enterprise.

An Agile leader, the Senior “Sr.” Product Owner collaborates closely with IT and business stakeholders to drive capability development of complex transformational efforts in support of excellent customer experience. The Sr. Product Owner manages the scrum team delivery of supporting capabilities needed for execution of the roadmap, driving feature definition and keeping the teams focused on delivering what matters most. The Sr. Product Owner is also accountable for operational readiness and mobilizes the right people to prepare the business to effectively accept, use and support new capabilities before they are delivered to production. The Sr. Product Owner may provide coaching and direction to Product Owners if needed based on the scope and complexity of their assigned roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Contributes to business case development and cost benefit analysis within their product scope
• Ensures delivery roadmap is aligned to the Strategic 1-2 year product roadmap
• Influences business partners and secures buy in to opportunities reflected on the product roadmap
• Designs and adjusts product and adoption KPIs as product matures and derives cascading metrics down through to the development and delivery activities
• Drives development, through partnership with UX, of continuously updated client personas based on evolving market and client needs. Operates as a client experience expert within the product management organization.
• Translates client needs from discovery into product backlog work items
• Heavily influences prioritization of short and long term product roadmap based on continuous integration of client feedback 
• Builds and maintains an updated and prioritized product backlog
• Accountable to ensure the backlog represents technical bodies of work required for long term technical integrity.
• Accountable for creation and ownership of product backlog work items including acceptance criteria (Features, User Stories)
• Leads and fully optimizes methodology adoption outlined in product area. Eg. Customer Journey, Agile Methodologies, Program Execution Framework ie. Program Ways of Working
• Maintain and model best practices on a set of tactical agile techniques in relation to work decomposition, planning, estimation, backlog tooling, status reporting
• Bring thought leadership and develops others on possibilities in this pro