Finance Product Owner

Job Purpose: The Finance Product Owner (FPO) is a product management function
in Finance Application and Master Management responsible for managing the
development and delivery of financial systems enhancements and support for
Finance globally. Working alongside the Finance Product Manager (FPM), the FPO
ensures that the company has access to the best-in-class financial systems,
applications, and management information, which are used internally by Finance
and across the business to inform and enable commercial decisions. In addition
to managing the development and delivery of financial systems enhancements,
the FPO is responsible for implementing and ensuring compliance with effective
policies and processes for financial systems access and master data updates.
This ensures appropriate control over the Group's assets and accurate
processing of financial information. With primary focus as a product owner of
a corporate payment gateway system, you will be responsible for ensuring the
successful development and delivery of the payment gateway system while
ensuring compliance with applicable policies and regulations, alignment with
customer needs, and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. Job
Accountabilities - Lead the product management for the corporate payment
gateway system and other finance products in the portfolio, including
understanding business process changes, requirements, feature refinement,
solution design, user experience definition, testing, training, and
coordinating the delivery of features to production in coordination with IT. -
Represent the end-users and stakeholders of the payment gateway system and
ensure alignment with Technical Product Owners (TPO) for product roadmap
management and Scrum Masters (SM) from IT to ensure successful delivery of the
program increment plan. - Act as a product specialist on strategic and
operational projects related to the payment gateway system and ensure
collaboration with other product owners internally and externally to design
integrated solutions for optimized data flow across multiple systems while
ensuring financial controls are in place. - Ensure compliance with Service
Level Agreements (SLAs) related to application support requests (ASRs) by
engaging with IT and external vendors & banks, as required. Provide functional
consultancy to the support team on issues, identify product improvements based
on data insights, and ensure accurate financial information processing. -
Ensure alignment of payment gateway processes to applicable policies for User
Access Management and Functional Master Management, including periodic reviews
to ensure a self-checking mechanism on key user access & functional masters. -
Write Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), user guides, and
setup/configuration documents for the payment gateway system to guide the team
in maintaining the system and ensure accurate financial information
processing. - Support the training plan driven by Financial Product Managers
(FPMs) to address identified training needs from across the stakeholder groups
to enable better utilization of technology & adoption. - Manage own
performance and continuous learning plan, help improve the performance of the
unit, and support the development of other team members to ensure successful
succession planning.
Qualifications & Experience: - Finance & Insurance/Finance Management : ‎5+
Years - Degree or Honours (‎12+‎3 or equivalent) :Degree in Technology, Finance
or Accounting related would be preferred. - Experience: - Experience in large
multi-national companies in a Supervisory capacity, focussed on applications /
product management. Functional (Finance and/or Accounting) knowledge is highly
desired. - Knowledge/skills: - Functional product knowledge of Financial
Applications highly desired which include but not limited to: ERP Finance
(Oracle Financials eBS preferred), Airline Revenue Accounting, Direct
Operating Costs, Payment Gateway, Treasury, Planning, Forecasting,
Consolidation & Budgeting - Reporting / Analytics :Ability to understand the
wider impact of financial applications, understand how it fits in the overall
technology landscape and how it enables the finance function - Basic
Accounting & Taxation knowledge - Advanced Operational Finance Knowledge -
Ability to understand finance processes from a financial applications
perspective - Experience in handling master management functions, preferably
in an airline or aviation group - Advanced product management skills
Salary & Benefits: Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary
and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on
flights and hotels stays around the world. You can find out more information
about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website
www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on what's it like to live and
work in our cosmopolitan home city, can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle
section.