What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner position at FastTek Global?
- We are looking for Finance Product Owner serves as the primary liaison between Finance stakeholders and technology delivery teams, ensuring financial products, platforms, and processes are aligned with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and operational needs.
- This position is a contract-to-hire role, with the potential for conversion to a full-time position after 6-12 months based on performance and business needs.
- Partners with key business owners, customers, account relationship managers, and other stakeholders in order to identify user/customer needs and to develop a product roadmap.
- Partners with the application development team in order to relay user experiences and necessary product features, including participating in daily standup meetings.
- Acts as a resource, subject matter expert, and single point of contact for the business and application development teams.
- Reviews new product feature requests and current backlogs and prioritizes work.
- Participates in writing and refining user stories and acceptance criteria, testing and demonstrating new product features and changes, and training users/customers.
- Identifies opportunities for improvement and recommends action plans to department management.
- Participates in the development of departmental strategies, goals, and objectives.
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, Computer Science, Finance, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Five (5) years of experience analyzing, documenting, maintaining, organizing, recommending, supporting, testing, or troubleshooting business needs, system requirements, or process workflows.
- and Three (3) years of information technology experience leading teams and/or projects that require customized software solutions.
- Understanding of SQL, with the ability to write and interpret SQL statements.
- Experience working with major ERP solutions, with an understanding of basic accounting principles, including accounts receivable and accounts payable.
- Experience working in or supporting a finance or accounting functions.
- Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, and experience.
- Experience using PeopleSoft (Version 9.2 or higher)
- Experience supporting commission-based payments to Producers in a medical / Dental insurance market.
- Experience working in a SAFe Agile development methodology
- Experience supporting Accounts Receivable functions
- Experience with insurance premium calculation, including:
- Dental, Vision, Life &Disability
At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.
We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!
FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.
We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.
Benefits
Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
- Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
- Vision
- Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
- Long Term Disability (100% paid)
- Life Insurance (100% paid)
- 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match
FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!
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We use AI tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications and identifying potential matches. These tools are designed to promote efficiency, consistency, and fairness, and they are always used under human oversight.
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