Digital Finance Product Owner - Hybrid

Digital Finance Product Owner - Hybrid 

Digital Finance Product Owner 

Advanced (6-9 years of US experience)

Additional Details for Role           

HYBRID position requiring 2 in-office days at local Deloitte office p/week. Travel costs are not reimbursable. Include feedback tracker with submission.

Product Owner to support the Corporate Finance Portfolio at wealth management client, translating product vision into a prioritized backlog and actionable user stories while leading day-to-day delivery of digital finance solutions across Financial Planning & Analysis and Core Finance. The role partners with Finance, Product, Engineering, and Risk stakeholders to define requirements, manage delivery, support testing and releases, and ensure solutions improve finance processes, controls, and reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Own and manage the product backlog for assigned product areas and value streams within the Digital Finance Portfolio, acting as the day-to-day owner of related capabilities and outcomes. Translate portfolio/product strategy into features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria, and prioritize work to align with firm objectives, business needs, and market trends.

• Identify and size opportunities in partnership with stakeholders; support business case development by documenting problem statements, expected value, assumptions, dependencies, and risks. Define and socialize success metrics for backlog items, review outcomes post-release, and continuously refine priorities based on data and stakeholder feedback.

• Drive clarity, decisions, and acceptance to enable delivery of complex enhancements and new capabilities by driving requirements clarity, scope tradeoffs, and release readiness to meet evolving needs of Corporate Finance.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to plan and execute increments, improve usability and efficiency, remove blockers, and ensure high-quality outcomes through effective testing and acceptance

• Own the Team Product Backlog refinement and prioritization by ensuring backlog is refined, sized, dependency-aware. Confirm acceptance criteria, NFRs, and control requirements for planned scope.

• Own the Team Product Backlog for Corporate Finance capabilities; prioritize, refine, and maintain readiness aligned to PI Objectives and firm goals.

• Partner with Product Management to translate portfolio/product strategy into features and stories; define clear acceptance criteria, NFRs, and control/audit requirements.

• Drive discovery and sizing inputs with stakeholders; document problem statements, value hypotheses, assumptions, dependencies, and risks; support business case materials and prioritization decisions.

• Define and socialize success metrics; validate outcomes post-release using data and stakeholder feedback; continuously adjust backlog priorities.

• Enable sprint and PI execution by setting Sprint Goals, making scope tradeoffs, resolving requirement ambiguities quickly, and maintaining a decision log.

• Coordinate cross-functional alignment to ensure testability, acceptance, release readiness, and operational handoffs.

• Support PI Planning by presenting/refining team scope, negotiating dependencies, and drafting team PI Objective inputs and capacity-based scope proposals.

• Translate product intent into a clear Sprint Goal and top outcomes

• Provide transparent status, risks, and impediments to Agile Release Train (ART) stakeholders and product leadership, with explicit visibility into controls and dependencies.

• Communicate backlog priorities, delivery progress, risks and key scope decisions to ART stakeholders and Product leadership.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field); MBA/advanced degree preferred.

• 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner (or closely related roles such as Product Delivery Manager / Business Analyst) delivering Finance products.

• Strong domain experience in FP&A and Core Finance