Finance Product Owner - Team Lead

ENGINEERINGUK; Watford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization on a transformative journey to enhance the National Lottery experience. This role offers the opportunity to lead a dynamic team, driving innovation and ensuring compliance while working with cutting-edge technologies. You will collaborate with diverse stakeholders, manage product lifecycles, and contribute to a mission that prioritizes social value. If you are passionate about making a difference and thrive in a collaborative environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you to shine and help shape the future of the National Lottery.

Benefits

Flexible Working Hours

Health Insurance

Professional Development Opportunities

Employee Assistance Program

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with SAP FICO and integrations.
• Hands-on product management experience across the product life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Finance Product Owner Team and manage the product backlog.
• Collaborate with business owners to define strategy and roadmap.

Skills

SAP FICO

Coupa P2P

Bottomline PTX

SAP Concur

Product Management

ITIL v3

Stakeholder Communication

Problem-solving

Team Leadership

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Relevant Certifications

Tools

SAP

Coupa

Bottomline

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Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.

About us:
We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group - a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus and Italy. We are the operator of the Fourth Licence (10-year licence) for the UK National Lottery since February 2024.

We've developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better. Our aim is to create one of the UK's most inclusive organisations - where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.

While the main contribution of the National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, large-scale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.

Role Purpose:
Reporting to the Head of Corporate Technology, the Finance Product Owner Lead will lead the Finance Product Owner Team working hand-in-hand with the SAP Basis Team, the internal Finance Team and third-parties including SAP, Coupa and Bottomline, to provide functional expertise of the applications and processes used in Finance at Allwyn. They will provide support to the Finance Systems team and the wider Finance & Procurement teams around the functional capabilities of their applications. They will work with the business owners to understand and document changes in requirements, building a prioritised backlog of features, and work with the architects and developers to deliver those changes into Production. They will also work with the Service Delivery team on incident and problem resolution, ensuring a service that is Fit for Purpose and meeting the needs of the business.

Role Responsibilities:

• Provide functional expertise of the Finance systems used by Allwyn's Finance team, including SAP (FICO), Coupa (P2P) and Bottomline PTX (BACS).
• Collaborate with business owners & end users to define the strategy and build the roadmap for Finance applications.
• Work with application owners on the scoping and designing of new features, and maintain a prioritized backlog of features to be delivered.
• Working with both internal and third-party technical teams to develop and test new features and deliver them into Production.
• Ensure the applications comply with all external requirements, including privacy regulations and security standards.
• Monitor KPIs and use data to measure the success of the product.
• Support the Service Delivery team in managing incidents and problems to resolution to ensure minimal impact to the business.
• Analyse incidents, identify trends and proactively work to reduce recurrence.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Extensive Functional Consultant expertise of SAP FICO, including managing and maintaining integrations for other systems into SAP.
• Experience of Coupa P2P
• Experience of Bottomline PTX
• Experience of SAP Concur
• Experience of leading a team of technical specialists.
• Previous experience as a Product Owner or similar role in product management.
• Hands-on experience managing all stages of the product life-cycle, including requirements gathering and testing.
• Technical background with knowledge of software development methodologies.
• Experience of management of incidents and problems using ITIL v3 methodology.
• Strong second-line support background.
• Proven ability to build rapport with stakeholders and communicate clearly
• Experience of communicating with all levels of departmental management
• Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills plus attention to detail.
• Act with integrity and due care, skill and diligence in carrying out your duties.
• A belief in high quality and a commitment to structured ITIL working practices such as Change and Problem Management, testing procedures and documentation, and adherence to the company baselines and standards.
• Demonstration of a professional, team-oriented approach coupled with strong self-motivation and personal initiative.
• Experience of lottery or similar line of business preferred.
• Good organizational skills.

Our goal is to create one of the UK's most inclusive organisations - where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.
Allwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer which prides itself in being diverse and inclusive. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or victimisation in the workplace. All employment decisions at Allwyn are based on the business needs, the job requirements, and the individual qualifications. Allwyn encourages applications from individuals regardless of age, disability (visible or hidden), sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Company

Our vision is to grow the National Lottery responsibly, making itbigger,betterandsafer for all, with more to good causes.

Bigger because we will significantly increase Good Causes contributions by the end of the Fourth Licence through responsible growth of people playing.

Better because we will modernise technology and operations, refresh games and support shops while improving the use of data and digital.

Safer because participant protection underpins everything we do.

What is unique about us?

Our preparations to transform the National Lottery will be a once-in-a-lifetime type of project in the lottery industry, anywhere in the world. Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.

Our approach

In Allwyn, the National Lottery will have an operator that has social value at its heart. We will raise more funding for Good Causes, while running our own business in an environmentally and socially responsible way. That’s why we have committed to an ambitious Social Value framework, which is woven into the way we do business. We believe that lotteries must serve everyone across society, not just those who play. So whether as an employee, a supplier, a retailer or any of the stakeholders that we interact with, we will be powering good across the UK.

Our goal is to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.

We are working to make the National Lottery truly accessible in a safe way, whether as a player, a retailer or an employee. We are proud to have been a partner with Purple since 2021 to support our work to embed accessibility into everything we do. Purple has carried out an accessibility audit on our office in Watford, is working with us to have truly inclusive workplace policies, and we have exciting plans to do so much more to make our games, both in-store and online, safely accessible.

Come and help us shape what the future of the National Lottery could look like.

Media Clips

“I became an amputee in 2021 and I struggled to find my place back in the working world until Allwyn welcomed me with open arms. They have always focused on what I bring to the table and it is apparent that my disability is not what defines me within the company, but my skill. Allwyn has a noticeable strong focus on accessibility and inclusion, which makes me feel seen and like I have found a permanent home for my career.”Lorna Jeanes, Transition Co-ordinator.

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