Middle Office Finance Product Owner

Key Responsibilities

The Middle Office Finance Product Owner has a key role in the transformation process of Allianz Partners. It has end to end responsibility towards the Finance Global Function.

This person acts as a main interface globally between the Finance function and Allianz Technology in charge to provide IT services. The PO needs to ensure the consistency of the MO Finance activities through the system but also maintaining the quality of the delivery during the phase of development and post delivery in Production.

Through this role you will have the following main responsabilities:

• Working closely with the Finance delivery manager, you will define the annual plan for continuous improvements to the Middle Office Finance functionality on the target platform and drive defect resolution in a timely and effective manner.
• Supporting the Finance delivery manager, this person is responsible for driving process improvement through the target systems, both cross systems and cross LoB. The PO supports the strategy of Allianz Partners which relies on the implementation of the target platform to improve efficiency and productivity.
• Responsible of the quality during each release to the target platform in close collaboration with key stakeholders, including, pre-release quality, prioritization of epics/ requirements by release to support the quarterly business review and annual plans and complete process validation cross line of business.
• This role is responsible for managing defect resolution and post implementation, this will include management of the backlog to ensure defects are appropriately prioritized and planned within the quarterly business reviews for implementation.
• This person is responsible for providing visibility of Middle Office Finance features in the course of target platform (ACM) transformation program, including:
• Creation of the list of features delivered in the course of release and do the mapping with functional processes cross-LOB for all target platform implementations.
• Supporting the Finance Delivery manager in term of delivery for Global platform checkpoints meetings, Steerco meetings based on past releases.
• Prioritization planning.
  
  

What You Bring

• Minimum 2 years of experience working with Agile methodology.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in business needs gathering and analysis.
• Strong customer orientation and ability to design processes from both customer & functional perspectives.
• Ablility to interact with senior level management.
• Experience in conducting functional workshops.
• Good level of English - both spoken and written.
• Experience in change management (e.g providing trainings, building training materials etc).
• Any Agile/Project management related certification is a plus.
  
  

What We Offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged.

Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

51185 | Product Management | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation. Great to have you on board. Let's care for tomorrow.

Note: Diversity of minds is an integral part of Allianz’ company culture. One means to achieve diverse teams is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company encourages its employees to have motivation in gaining varied skills from different positions and to collect experiences from across Allianz Group.