Senior Product Owner IT Accountancy & Control

<p><span><span>Summary: </span></span></p><p><span> </span></p><p></p>Do you like developing and implementing a strategic roadmap for Accounting and Control, increasing the Agile and IT maturity of the team? Apply now!<p><span> </span></p><p><span><span>Job Description:</span></span></p><p><span> </span></p><p>As our Senior Product Owner  (PO), you are primarily responsible for maximizing the value delivered by the IT Accounting and Control delivery team. You will closely work together with the Business Owner of  Finance to translate business demand to the strategic roadmap (initiatives), and the domain roadmap (epics), and then pull them to the team backlog (user stories). The PO is the team’s primary customer advocate and is responsible for aligning business and technology strategy, which results into enabling the team to balance the needs of multiple stakeholders while continuously evolving the solution.</p><p></p><p><span>Main responsibilities</span></p><p></p><ul><li><b>Product Vision and Roadmap</b>: Develop and maintain a vision and roadmap for both run and change initiatives, drawing on market insights and IT trends.</li></ul><ul><li><b>Backlog Management</b>: Prioritize and manage the Team Backlog based on value, pulling relevant epics from the Domain Backlog, and ensuring that only “ready” items are assigned to the team.</li></ul><ul><li><b>Stakeholder Alignment</b>: Engage with stakeholders (e.g., Business Owner, Domain Architect, IT Manager, Portfolio Office) to gather input and balance priorities based on value.</li></ul><ul><li><b>Delivery Support</b>: Empower the Delivery Team by providing tools and automated solutions, clearly defining backlog items, and aligning release plans with stakeholders and dependent teams.</li></ul><ul><li><b>Data Quality and Governance</b>: Ensure data governance and quality standards are embedded within team processes to support accuracy, compliance, and consistency, particularly for ETL and automated processes.</li></ul><ul><li><b>Technical Acumen in Financial Systems:</b> Understand the technical architecture, dependencies, and context of financial systems, including outsourced and third-party components, to ensure alignment with NIBC’s goals.</li></ul><ul><li><b>Cross-Team Collaboration</b>: Regularly meet with stakeholders to validate progress, lead Sprint Reviews, and refine product strategy while contributing to the Senior Product Owner  and Agile Centers of Expertise.</li></ul><ul><li><b>Transparency and Communication</b>: Keep the Team Backlog visible to both team members and stakeholders, and communicate delivery progress and achievements.</li></ul><ul><li><b>Performance Metrics</b>: Track and optimize KPIs (e.g., engagement, productivity, quality, time to market, and value) to drive continuous improvement.</li></ul><ul><li><b>Non-Functional Controls</b>: Perform necessary controls on the IT product/service to maintain operational standards.</li></ul><p></p><p>Your challenge</p><p>You will start at NIBC while we just embarked on the second phase of our agile journey. We extended the Agile Way-of-Working (WoW) towards the business and appointed Business Owners (BOs). Each IT team has a dedicated Senior Product Owner  and Scrum Master. We have implemented a consistent Agile WoW based on Scrum and SAFe elements accros all IT teams.</p><p>You will be working with the team that will be responsible for the IT landscape that enables the Accounting and product control value stream. Together with the Scrum Master and the team, you will shape the team and increase their maturity.</p><p>For change there is an ambitious roadmap for the coming years, here are the challenges ahead.</p><p></p><p>The roadmap for the coming years includes the following key initiatives</p><p></p><ul><li><b>Maximize Team Value:</b> Work to ensure the team’s projects and priorities (the team backlog) are closely aligned with the needs of our customers and stakeholders. This alignment will help the team deliver meaningful value and directly address user needs.</li></ul><ul><li><b>Automate Expected Credit Loss (ECL) Processes:</b> Lead the implementation of automated ECL processes across all stages of the value chain, creating a more efficient, reliable, and responsive system that can adapt to evolving business needs.</li></ul><ul><li><b>Enhance Finance Accounting and Closing Processes:</b> Collaborate closely with the Business Owner and end users to adopt industry best practices that streamline and improve the accounting and closing processes. This will help create a faster, more accurate, and transparent financial reporting structure.</li></ul><ul><li><b>Reduce On-Premises Footprint:</b> Work to rationalize the on-premises IT environment by evaluating and reducing dependence on in-house systems. This will streamline infrastructure, reduce costs, and allow the team to focus more on strategic technology initiatives.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Your Team</b></p><p>As Senior Product Owner , you’ll lea