IT Manager, Product Owner - Finance at Quench USA – Fort Worth, Texas
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About This Position
This role serves as the single point of accountability for the Finance product domain, ensuring that business needs are translated into clear, actionable requirements and that the development team delivers highquality increments aligned with strategic objectives
Responsibilities
The IT Manager, Product Owner - Finance plays a strategic role in evaluating and transforming financial business processes, identifying areas for improvement, and driving initiatives that deliver maximum business value.
Vision & Roadmap
Own and continuously refine the Finance Product Vision, ensuring alignment with Finance leadership and enterprise strategy.
Maintain a transparent, prioritized product roadmap, balancing strategic initiatives, technical debt, compliance, and operational enhancements.
Define measurable product outcomes (e.g., automation ROI, cycle time reduction, data accuracy improvements).
Communicate the roadmap across Finance, IT, and executive stakeholders to ensure alignment and shared understanding
Backlog Management
Own the endtoend product backlog, ensuring items are valuedriven, refined, and prioritized.
Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, and iteration reviews in partnership with the Scrum Master.
Ensure backlog items are sliced into incremental, deliverable units that support continuous delivery.
Make realtime scope decisions during sprints to keep the team unblocked and focused.
Stakeholder Management
Act as the primary liaison between Finance leadership and technical teams.
Facilitate crossfunctional decisionmaking and negotiate tradeoffs.
Communicate product progress, risks, and dependencies to senior leadership.
Manage relationships with thirdparty vendors and implementation partners
Process Transformation: Oversee the documentation and continuous improvement of complex financial business processes, including General Ledger, AP, AR, Tax, and Collections.
Domain Expertise
Lead evaluation and redesign of financial processes (GL, AP, AR, Tax, Collections).
Ensure system design aligns with accounting principles, compliance, and audit standards.
Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and reduce operational risk.
Partner with Finance SMEs to validate requirements and ensure solutions meet business needs.
System Integrity
Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and integrity across all financial systems and integrations.
Partner with architecture and data teams to maintain a robust data governance model.
Identify and mitigate risks related to data quality, system dependencies, and integration failures.
Agile Leadership:
Facilitate Agile ceremonies with discipline and purpose, ensuring Sprint Planning, Reviews, and Retrospectives drive transparency, alignment, and continuous improvement.
Translate strategic objectives into clear, achievable sprint goals, partnering with the Scrum Master and development team to maintain flow, remove blockers, and uphold Agile delivery standards.
Monitor delivery risks and dependencies across Finance systems, proactively escalating issues, adjusting scope, and guiding teams toward predictable, highquality delivery.
Consulting & Innovation:
Advise Finance leaders on technology-enabled process improvements, offering datadriven recommendations that balance innovation with operational feasibility.
Evaluate emerging financial technologies and industry trends, identifying opportunities to modernize the Finance ecosystem and strengthen automation, compliance, and scalability.
Facilitate ideation and solutioning workshops with Finance SMEs and IT partners to explore new capabilities, challenge assumptions, and cocreate forwardlooking enhancements.
Qualifications
Experience: Minimum of 5-7 years of Product Owner experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership or managerial capacity.
Education: 4-year degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or relevant work experience.
Technical Expertise: Strong technical knowledge of Salesforce.com, Zuora billing, and Certinia (FinancialForce).
Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of core finance and accounting business processes.
Agile Proficiency: Expert knowledge of Agile best practices, including requirements gathering, process mapping, and user story development.
Soft Skills: Mature presence and poise to engage with senior leadership, with excellent communication and technical writing skills.
"Quenchy": A collaborative team player with a positive outlook and a "company and team first" attitude.
Nice to have:
Prior consulting experience
Familiarity with SQL and/or PowerBI
CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner), IIBA, or PMI-PBA certification.