Product Owner Manager - Tax Technology - Technical Delivery

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RSM’s Center for Advanced Tax Technology (“CATT”) is a fast-paced, high-energy, collaborative environment that also happens to be one of the fastest growing tax practice groups at RSM.  The CATT team is focused on enhancing RSM US and global ability to deliver comprehensive, value-added, and efficient Tax products and services to our clients. It is a dynamic team with professionals of varying backgrounds from tax functional, tax technical, technology development, and product management. The team consults and executes on a wide range of initiatives involving process and tool development and implementation including training development, engagement management, tool design, and implementation.

JOB SUMMARY

The CATT Product Owner collaborates with Lead Product Owner(s) to translate their strategic roadmap into backlog items for custom-developed software that is used by internal RSM partners and staff as well as external clients to drive long-term scalability and sustainability of the business for a competitive advantage. To execute their area of responsibility, this role collaborates with staff, product teams, IT, other functional areas within the broader RSM firm, and field offices to ensure we achieve the vision cohesively and effectively.  The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of success leading high-performance teams, strong data analytics capabilities, a continuous improvement mindset, and a deep passion for the digital transformational journey.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Collaborates with Lead Product Owner(s) to translate their strategic roadmap into backlog items.
• Owns and prioritizes the technical and function requirements in the product backlog and maintains the product roadmap.
• Serves as a liaison between business and development; identifies what the business wants and works with the team to determine what's feasible to deliver (adherence to firm policies and standards).
• Addresses product team members' questions to ensure they deliver an acceptable, quality solution.
• Participates and champions all agile/scrum ceremonies (or adherence to Kanban principles); monitors sprint burndown charts to know when to ramp up/down the team to drive quality and velocity over time.
• May serve as a Career Advisor for FTEs or hiring manager for Contractors, which requires regular feedback, coaching, goal setting and training with assigned advisees/contractors.

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's Degree (preference given to Business or Technology or Accounting major).
• Certified Professional Scrum Product Owner or equivalent experience.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a product owner or business analyst (required).
• Results driven; high integrity; ability to influence, negotiate and build relationships; superior communications skills; make complex decisions and lead team through complex challenges (required).
• Experience with Software Development Life Cycle (required); Secure Software Development Life Cycle (preferred).
• Experience with Agile development methodologies (required).
• Self-disciplined to work in a virtual, agile, globally sourced team (required).
• Prior public accounting experience with mid to large size firm(s) or other professional services experience (preferred).

SUCCESSFUL CHARACTERISTICS / SKILLS

• Creative, out-of-the-box thinker and problem-solving experience to assess, analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve issues.
• Excellent analytical skills, extraordinary attention to detail, and ability to present recommendations to business teams based on trends, patterns, and modern best practices.
• Experience and passion for technology and providing exceptional experiences both internally for our employees and externally for clients and prospects.
• Strong ownership, bias to action, and know-how to succeed in ambiguity.
• Ability to deliver value consistently by motivating teams towards achieving goals.

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