Senior Finance Product Owner - Project Accounting

What you'll do:

Job Summary:    
  
 The Accounting Senior Product Owner will set and communicate the product vision, develop and maintain the product roadmap, and define key operational processes like the product release schedule. The individual in this role will work closely with business partners and customers to define epics that align with key business objectives for the Scrum or Kanban team.

This Senior Product Owner tracks and manages product funding and defines work priorities for individuals dedicated to the product team.  They will balance new features against continuous improvement, system health, and support.  

The Senior Product Owner works directly with a team of analysts, engineers and other product team members to execute the product roadmap, guide the product development lifecycle, define user stories, and provide voice of the customer within product processes. This position is responsible for maximizing the value , prioritizing, and managing the product backlog.  

The Product Owner is responsbile for simple products with small levels of impact on Eaton Business Outcomes. Work on these products is foundational to the business. 

The Product Owner will set and communicate the product vision, develop and maintain the product roadmap, and define influence key operational processes like the product release schedule. The individual in this role will work closely with business partners and customers to define epics that align with key business objectives for the Scrum or Kanban team.

The Product Owner tracks and manages product funding and defines work priorities for individuals dedicated to the product team.  They will balance new features against continuous improvement, system health, and support.  

The Product Owner works directly with analysts, engineers and other product team members to execute the product roadmap, guide the product development lifecycle, define user stories, and provide voice of the customer within product processes.

** Please note.. this role requires someone with significant Corporate Finance/Accounting principles to wotk with our internal finance teams. Finance Product Ownership or Project Management experience alone is not enough for this role. Previous experience working as a Sr Finance/Accounting professional will be required for this role. 

What you’ll do:

Job Responsibilities:    
    
- Define and communicate the product vision, roadmap, and epics to meet customer and business needs
- Own the product backlog, managing and prioritizing user stories, decomposing epics into features, and continuous improvement work
- Plan, manage, and track product funding. Is fully responsible for product budget and profit plan
- Develops and maintains product-specific persona and customer journeys
- Work closely with business stakeholders and customers, understanding their priorities and defining business outcomes and KPIs for the product in collaboration with those key stakeholders
- Communicate goals for product increments and releases. Define goals for team sprints.
- Support the onboarding of internal and external resources
- Accountable for product support, stability, and governance: including data, policy, cybersecurity, and usage
- Act as a functional expert in areas related to the product
- Define product processes (e.g., release schedule) and support process improvement activities across product processes (Lean, Agile, Scrum, DevSecOps, etc.)
- Understand the different types of projects and full end to end lifecycles to enable robust process definitions with other key capability owners.
- Understand commercial, business and go-to-market strategies where applicable.
- Support a Secure Product Development Lifecycle approach that establishes a strong cybersecurity focus and culture across the entire engineering lifecycle.
- Manage contracts with software and service vendors to support the product stratgegy
- Drive development of features that provide rigorous project financial tracking and cost control.
- Champion capabilities like project budgeting, cost forecasting, and profitability analysis to give stakeholders real-time visibility into project spend vs. budget. Set product outcomes around improved cost transparency
- Embed robust financial controls and comp