Product Manager

DLA Piper International; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

DLA Piper International is looking for a BI Product Manager to join their Finance BI, Data & Reporting team in Sheffield. This role involves engaging with stakeholders to define business requirements and manage product roadmaps. You will be at the forefront of embedding AI into reporting processes for improved decision-making.

The ideal candidate should have a passion for creating best-in-class reporting and possess strong analytical skills. Familiarity with finance processes and data manipulation is desired, along with excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in reporting processes, ideally within a legal or finance setting.
• Strong analytical skills to access and interrogate data effectively.
• Awareness of BI Reporting tools and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and generate global metrics and executive reporting.
• Manage product roadmap and stakeholder prioritization.
• Collaborate with engineering to translate requirements into action.

Skills

Passion for reporting processes

Understanding of finance processes

Data analysis skills

Experience with SAP HANA

Agile methodologies

Excellent communication skills

Job description

The BI Product Manager is responsible for their own stakeholders and product areas within the Finance BI, Data & Reporting team. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of the Firm’s data and insight capabilities, working within a team that is at the forefront of adopting Artificial Intelligence to solve real business challenges. The team is actively embedding AI into its own ways of working and delivering innovative AI-powered features within the Insight product, creating tangible value for users across the business.

The Product Management team maintains individual product backlogs that contribute to the overall backlog for the Data & BI product, Insight, which is managed by the Senior BI Product Manager.

The stakeholders include the Firm’s Executive team, fee earners, Partners, Finance teams, and other business support functions. Responsibilities include regular engagement with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements, support prioritisation activities, assist in the creation of prototypes for stakeholder review, and provide analysis to support the delivery of the BI, Data & Reporting team's roadmap.

The BI Product Managers work closely with the engineering function within the BI, Data & Reporting team, providing business requirements, defining data expectations, and guiding desired outcomes to translate the product roadmap into actionable user stories and deliverable solutions.

The role maintains and nurtures relationships with key members of the product’s user community and develops a strong understanding of the financial processes and business functions that underpin their requirements.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Global metric design and generation, Management & Executive reporting, as well as opportunities to be involved in other areas of the business dealing with Client Reporting or Performance Reporting
• Management and autonomy over own roadmap content and prioritisation representing the product managers area of responsibility – aligned to key stakeholders
• Working with key stakeholders to ensure new features / reports match core business processes associated with financial metric calculation and application
• Ensuring the application of solid accounting principles to the calculation and presentation of key financial metrics within the reporting process
• Ensuring an effective story-based process for the description and prioritisation of user requirements such that they can be well understood and acted upon by the Engineering team, using Agile methodologies
• Managing feedback & queries from the Business via the firms ticketing system – including the investigation to probable root causes
• Support the BI Operations Manager with training activities – including one on one training with Partners / Fee earners / Secretaries or finance colleagues. As well as wider presentations to larger groups
• Analysis of key information to enable the effective documentation of requirements, and presentation of stories to the engineering team can be provided

About you

• Demonstrate a passion for the creation and delivery of best-in-class reporting processes and products
• An understanding of Finance processes within a large organisation, particularly a law firm, would be highly desirable. Experience of using Snap is desirable
• An ability to access and interrogate data, to support basic analysis and report prototyping
• Some awareness of the reporting and data manipulation capabilities available within the SAP HANA suite, including integration with other, third-party tools appropriate for BI Reporting, would be advantageous. A desire to learn is essential, prior knowledge is not
• Some understanding and practical use of Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum
• Excellent written and verbal skill for the communication of complex processes

We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

We are committed to being accessible and accommodating any reasonable adjustments needed throughout the recruitment process to ensure an inclusive experience for all. If you need any support or adjustments, please let us know.

If you think you may need adjustments or additional support to enable you participate in our recruitment process, please contact our Recruitment team and we will be happy to support you.