Product Owner Corporate Finance, PeopleSoft

KAYGEN•Dallas, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

KAYGEN is seeking a Product Owner to support the Corporate Finance Portfolio at a large wealth management client. The role owns day-to-day delivery of finance capabilities within a digital product team, translating business outcomes and product strategy into a prioritized backlog, features, and clear user stories. The Product Owner partners with Finance stakeholders, Product Management, Engineering, and Risk/Compliance to refine requirements, define acceptance criteria, manage dependencies, support testing and release readiness, and ensure delivered features improve finance processes, controls, and reporting. The assignment runs through March 12, 2027, with a possible extension, and is hybrid with two days onsite at any Deloitte office. The Product Owner manages assigned Digital Finance capabilities and outcomes, supports discovery and business case development, defines success metrics, and uses data and stakeholder feedback to refine priorities. The role also enables sprint and PI execution, supports PI Planning, and coordinates cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, testable capabilities with effective operational handoffs. KAYGEN describes its culture as diverse, inclusive, and employee-driven, with a candidate-first approach focused on supporting career goals and professional growth.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
Five or more years of experience as a Product Owner or in a closely related role, such as Product Delivery Manager, Business Analyst, or Product Manager, delivering digital products or capabilities.
Deep expertise with PeopleSoft Finance and/or accounting principles.
Demonstrated experience owning and managing a product backlog for one or more Agile delivery teams, including prioritization, refinement, sprint planning, and release planning.
Ability to translate business and product goals into clear epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and definitions of ready and done.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making capabilities, including structuring ambiguous problems and making sound trade-offs.
Experience defining and using outcome and delivery metrics to guide prioritization and measure post-release performance.
Ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex business, process, and technical topics.
Practical experience with Agile delivery methodologies, including SAFe, Scrum, and/or Kanban.
Working knowledge of digital finance platforms, integrations, and enterprise architecture concepts.
Familiarity with product and delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, Aha!, Mural, and Asana.

Nice To Haves

MBA or advanced degree.
Experience delivering products or capabilities in Corporate Finance, FP&A, Expenditure Management, compensation, branch economics, or related finance domains.
Experience in a regulated financial-services environment with risk, controls, compliance, and audit requirements.
Strong customer advocacy and ability to represent user needs in backlog prioritization and acceptance decisions.
Ability to balance architecture, performance, scalability, security, and other non-functional requirements with business objectives.
Comfort making decisions with incomplete information and maintaining momentum in a fast-paced delivery environment.
Strong negotiation and conflict-resolution skills, particularly for prioritization, scope, and dependency trade-offs.

Responsibilities

Own and manage the product backlog for assigned product areas, value streams, and Digital Finance capabilities.
Translate portfolio and product strategy into prioritized features and user stories with clear acceptance criteria, non-functional requirements, and control or audit requirements.
Prioritize, refine, size, and maintain a dependency-aware backlog aligned with PI Objectives, firm goals, business needs, and market trends.
Identify and size opportunities with stakeholders; document problem statements, expected value, value hypotheses, assumptions, dependencies, and risks; support business case materials and prioritization decisions.
Define and socialize success metrics, review post-release outcomes using data and stakeholder feedback, and continuously adjust backlog priorities.
Drive requirements clarity, scope trade-offs, and decisions to enable delivery of complex enhancements and new capabilities.
Set Sprint Goals, resolve requirement ambiguities, make scope trade-offs, and maintain a decision log to enable sprint and PI execution.
Partner with Product Management and cross-functional technology, operations, business, compliance, legal, and risk teams to plan and execute increments, remove blockers, improve usability and efficiency, and ensure high-quality outcomes.
Coordinate testability, acceptance, release readiness, effective testing, and operational handoffs.
Support PI Planning by presenting and refining team scope, negotiating dependencies, and drafting team PI Objective inputs and capabilities.
Address evolving needs across Branch teams, Financial Advisors, and Financial Analysts.