Product Owner

Product Owner

Client: Altimetrik / Paypal

San Jose, CA (Remote until Covid)

Job Responsibilities:

• Proactive partnership across product, payments, treasury, engineering, and operations teams to define treasury business requirements in different pillars that enable key operational capabilities and efficiencies
• Design and implement solutions to automate cash management operational processes that maintain the integrity of financial recognition and controls
• Drive the cash management product feature development including discovery, prioritization, design, development, user acceptance testing and launch
• Effectively collaborate and communicate product roadmaps, project status, risks and dependencies to management, stakeholders and delivery teams
• Partner with treasury and accounting/finance to identify, prioritize and implement solutions for current state issues or process deficiencies

Requirements:

• Minimum of 6 years of experience, combined experience in accounting, finance systems and product management required
• Solid understanding of accounting standards and financial reconciliation processes
• Strong system and data flow knowledge with ability to learn and adapt to new product flows and software technologies
• Highly dependable, with ability to drive things to conclusion across cross functional teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate ideas in meetings and presentations
• Able to take initiative and work independently; however, collaboration as part of a uniquely qualified team is required
• Must handle multiple priorities with a strong attention to detail in written documentation
• Demonstrated organizational agility and the ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment with matrix reporting structure
• Energetic, creative and able to deliver innovative solutions
• Exhibit the highest standards of integrity and be pleasant & fun to work with
• Highly comfortable with data and making data-backed product decisions
• Ability to translate product needs into technical requirements, understand technology dependencies, and discuss technical trade-offs
• Strong collaboration skills, able to drive and influence complex decision-making with various stakeholder groups and build consensus
• Ability to work with large amounts of data: facts, figures, and number crunching.
• Ability to work independently, at times with minimal guidance and ambiguous data to create actionable insights
• Good understanding of Payments Platform / Transaction Model is a big Plus.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree required. Finance or Accounting degree preferred.
• Experience in banking or fintech preferred