Finance Product Owner

Job Description

We are a global law firm with a powerful strategic focus and real momentum. Our industry-focused strategy is seeing us take on pioneering work in places that others have yet to reach. Our shared values define our culture and our workplace. You will find us to be unusually collegial, team-oriented, and ready to innovate. We work seamlessly across practices, offices and around the world. This elimination of boundaries has allowed us to evolve into a law firm that works as hard for its culture as it does for its clients.

Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking a dedicated and experienced Finance Product Owner to manage the product lifecycle for assigned products. This includes managing the vision and roadmap for products and services based on input from stakeholders, customers, market research and industry insight.  The ideal candidate will have a strong background working with billing and accounting, financial systems, along with a deep understanding of financial processes within a legal environment. Experience with Aderant is highly preferred.

This role works under minimal supervision, relying on experience and judgment to ensure the appropriate activities have been carried out for new applications. The successful candidate will demonstrate proficiency with a highly collaborative approach, exhibiting excellent problem solving, organizational and interpersonal skills.

This position is ideally located in Houston, Texas, but can be based in any of our US offices. We offer a hybrid schedule which is primarily remote with in-office meetings as needed each month. The position reports into the Application Portfolio Manager. 

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to

• Developing and maintaining advanced functional knowledge of finance business process related to assigned applications and use of systems integrated assigned applications.

• Defining the vision, strategy, roadmap, release plan, and ongoing prioritization assigned finance applications; including defining the minimum viable product for releases

• Managing the finance product lifecycle from concept to decommissioning; including managing the product and release backlog

• Understanding and Defining customer problems, use cases, value propositions

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of financial systems with business objectives.

• Validation of customer pain points and requirements while acting as the primary point of contact for all finance-related product inquiries and issues.

• Partnering with stakeholders to develop business cases to gain approval for product or service investment

• Partnering with Enterprise Architecture in vendor selection and management to ensure alignment to product delivery strategy

• Coordinating with UX to ensure design meets functional needs

• Ensuring traceability of requirements from stakeholders to product release

• Partnering with the Change Management and Training teams to develop and implement a successful change management and training program

• Soliciting user feedback for product and delivery improvement

• Collaborating with peers to determine resource needs on projects and sustaining teams.

• Conducting and participating as needed in reviews for requirements, application design testing strategy, and change control activities

• Communicating status and change requests to stakeholders

• Point of Contact within the Application Services team to share overall customer needs, vision, and direction.  Agile execution through management of the product backlog, epics, user stories, iteration plans and feature acceptance. 

• Coordinating with stakeholders to develop acceptance criteria, sample data, and User Acceptance Testing  

• Providing inputs into end-user training, materials, and support

• Prioritizing features for releases based upon agreed Critical Success Factors – including features and bug fixes

• Making tradeoff decisions between scope and schedule within agreed constraints

Other duties

Please note this job description does not cover or contain all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information science, or Business -related field preferred

• Minimum three years of experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner

• Minimum of three years of experience in a finance or accounting role, preferably within a law firm.

• Strong understanding of billing and accounting processes.

• Experience with financial software systems; Aderant experience is highly preferred.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Detail-oriented with a high level of accuracy in work.

• Proficient in using Product, and Requirements management tools like Azure DevOps

• Proficient with Excel and other core Microsoft applications

• Requires knowledge of the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and must be able to execute within both Agile and Waterfall deliveries of the SDLC

• Proficiency in analyzing software applications and assessing individual features and modules to determine fit for business purpose

• Preferred experience in the legal industry

• Preferred experience with Finance solutions

• Preferred certifications: Product Owner Professional (PO)

Equal Employment Opportunity/M/F/disability/protected veteran status

Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is committed to providing employees with a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that supports you, your health, and your family. Benefit packages include access to three medical plans, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance. Employees can also access pre-tax benefits such as health savings and flexible spending accounts. Norton Rose Fulbright helps provide financial security by allowing employees to participate in a 401(k) savings plan and profit-sharing plans if eligible. Full- time employees are eligible to access fertility benefits designed to support fertility and family-forming journeys.

In addition to the Firm’s health and welfare benefits above, we offer a competitive paid time off plan, which provides a minimum of 20 days off based on your role and tenure with the firm. The firm offers a generous paid parental leave benefit allowing parents to take a minimum of 14 weeks of paid leave to bond with your newborn, or adopted child(ren). Employees are also entitled to 11 Firm holidays.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal laws and their implementing regulations that require the collection and recording of certain data and information. The information we receive will not be used to make any decision regarding employment and will be kept separate from your application. Similarly, self-identification information is kept confidential and used only in accordance with applicable federal laws and regulations. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to providing reasonable accommodation as an Equal Opportunity Employer to applicants with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation to complete your application, please contact us.hr@nortonrosefulbright.com. Please provide your contact information and a description of your accessibility issue. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

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