Finance Systems Product Owner

Job Description

Overview

The Finance Systems Product Owner is a senior member of the ITS Finance Systems Leadership Team, responsible for setting the strategic direction for the Finance applications estate and shaping the priorities, standards and operating model that support the organisation’s evolving needs. With primary accountability for the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Fusion platforms and its integrated services, the role provides strategic product and operational leadership, defines the product roadmap, and translates business priorities into clear, value led outcomes. Working closely with Finance, enterprise architecture, internal delivery teams, strategic partners and the wider business, the role ensures solutions are secure, resilient, compliant and aligned with enterprise strategy and standards.

The role also provides visible leadership across ITS Finance Systems and leads and develops a multidisciplinary team to deliver reliable services, continuous improvement and the transition towards a modern, product centric operating model. This includes setting clear objectives, building product and leadership capability through coaching, mentoring and knowledge sharing, and establishing structured career development opportunities. The role creates an inclusive, collaborative and high performing culture that promotes innovation, accountability, succession planning and continuous learning.

Your role

• •Set the strategic direction, target state architecture and multiyear roadmap for Oracle E Business Suite and the wider Finance applications estate, in collaboration with the Director, Finance Systems Architecture and Innovation. M3- Finance Systems Product Owner UK 1/4 AtkinsRéalis - Baseline / Référence
• •Own the end to end product lifecycle, ensuring solutions across Oracle modules and integrated applications are scalable, supportable and aligned with enterprise standards and business strategy.
• •Own and prioritise the product backlog, balancing business value, regulatory obligations, technical sustainability, cyber security and delivery capacity.
• •Establish effective demand intake, assessment and change governance, providing clear recommendations and trade offs to support timely investment decisions.
• •Partner with senior leaders across the Finance Centre of Excellence, Finance Operations and divisional teams to anticipate evolving needs and translate them into deliverable product outcomes.
• •Provide end to end accountability for Finance systems service delivery, embedding appropriate software development lifecycle, ITIL and operational governance practices. • Direct internal delivery teams and systems integration partners, ensuring initiatives are delivered safely, predictably and to agreed scope, quality, cost and outcome expectations.
• •Provide product leadership across the Oracle applications estate, guiding multidisciplinary teams and ensuring designs follow Oracle good practice and enterprise architecture principles.
• •Lead, coach and develop the Finance Systems product team by setting clear objectives, building technical, functional and leadership capability, and creating structured career and succession pathways.
• •Create an inclusive, collaborative and innovative culture through mentoring, knowledge sharing, communities of practice and regular forums that turn external insight into practical improvement.
• •Champion standardisation, simplification and automation across the service, using performance insight, retrospectives and lessons learned to maintain a prioritised pipeline of improvements.
• •Define and deliver application lifecycle roadmaps that keep products evergreen, address technical debt and reduce cyber and operational risk.
• •Safeguard data integrity, financial controls and system stability, partnering with Service Delivery leads to maintain reliable, high performing operations and resolve recurring issues.
• •Work in collaboration with the FS Engineering lead to maintain operational resilience by ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery plans are current, tested at least annually and supported by prompt remediation of identified risks.
• •Manage strategic relationships with Oracle, SaaS providers and systems integrators, holding suppliers accountable for performance, service levels, commercial commitments, risk management and continuous improvement.

Key Accountabilities

• •Accountable for defining and maintaining the Finance Systems product vision, strategy, target state and multiyear roadmap, aligned with business priorities and enterprise architecture.
• •Accountable for the end-to-end performance, availability, resilience, security and supportability of Oracle E-Business Suite and the wider Finance applications estate.
• •Accountable for product investment prioritisation and backlog governance, ensuring resources are directed towards the highest-value business, regulatory, risk and technical outcomes.
• •Accountable for the controlled delivery of product changes and transformation initiatives to agreed scope, quality, cost, timescale and measurable benefits. AtkinsRéalis - Baseline / Référence 2/4
• •Accountable for maintaining effective IT general controls, audit readiness, data integrity, segregation of duties and compliance with applicable cyber security and enterprise standards.
• •Accountable for application lifecycle management, including evergreen planning, vulnerability remediation, technical debt reduction and tested business continuity and disaster recovery arrangements.
• •Accountable for product budgets, forecasts, supplier performance and commercial value, ensuring transparent financial management and effective use of internal and external resources.
• •Accountable for building and sustaining a capable, inclusive and high-performing product team with clear objectives, succession plans and development pathways.
• •Accountable for effective senior stakeholder engagement, providing clear performance insight, risks, dependencies, trade-offs and recommendations to support timely decisions.
• •Accountable for measurable continuous improvement across Finance Systems, including service quality, user experience, process simplification, automation and adoption of product centric ways of working.

About you

Essential Experience

• •Substantial leadership experience across large, complex Finance application estates. • Solid oracle E-Business product understanding with the ability when needed to get hands on to support complex issue resolution.
• •Strong functional experience implementing, supporting or optimising Oracle E-Business Suite R12 and Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials.
• •Proven success leading multidisciplinary teams , working with large global teams including offshore managed service providers.
• •Experience in developing product strategies and roadmaps, with a good understanding of Oracles EBS and Fusion product strategies.
• •Understanding of Oracle integration patterns and reporting tools.
• •Provern experience leading teams through technical product upgrades, delivering major Oracle change, upgrade or cloud transformation initiatives.
• •Strong senior stakeholder and governance experience.
• •Experience managing strategic suppliers, managed service providers and systems integrators.
• •Experience managing operational budgets, ideally with experience of delivering cost optimisations.
• •Good understanding of ITGC, ISO270001 and cyber essentials plus requirements AtkinsRéalis - Baseline / Référence 3/4
• •Sound knowledge of IT service management support with ITIL certification.
• •Proven people leadership, analytical and problem-solving capability, with a track record of developing teams.

Desirable Experience

• •Experience leading Oracle Fusion Cloud implementations, migrations or support teams.
• •Experience in a global, multi-entity or regulated organisation, including mergers, acquisitions, divestments or other complex Finance systems integration.
• •Familiarity with Agile product management.

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