Product Owner – D365 and Onestream

Landsec; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading real estate company in London is seeking an experienced Product Owner to set the strategic direction for D365 and OneStream functionalities. You will manage product roadmaps, optimize processes, and lead a cross-functional team. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with D365 and OneStream, strong decision-making skills, and is a qualified accountant. This role offers a hybrid working environment and an attractive benefits package.

Benefits

Performance based annual bonus plan

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Enhanced pension contributions

Private medical insurance

Up to 4 volunteer days per year

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of D365 and OneStream.
• Proven experience overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills combined with strong presentation and public speaking skills.
• Degree educated or relevant professional background.
• Qualified accountant.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the management and optimisation of strategic products across the company.
• Formulate the vision, strategy and roadmap for the set of products.
• Support optimisation transformation objectives through D365 and OneStream.
• Lead a team of approximately 4 direct reports.
• Quickly build market knowledge and assess new product opportunities.

Skills

D365 experience

OneStream experience

Decision making

Facilitation

Cross-functional team management

Supplier management

Negotiation skills

Digital tools knowledge

Presentation skills

Education

Degree educated or relevant professional background

Qualified accountant

Tools

Miro

Jira

Job description

We are Landsec

We identify and shape places that create opportunity, enhance quality of life, and bring joy to the people connected to them. This is how we’ve created the UK’s leading portfolio of urban places and one of the largest real estate companies in Europe.

Our £10 billion portfolio is built around premium workplaces, the country’s pre-eminent retail platform, and a residential pipeline that will redefine urban life. We’ve honed this ability over 80 years. Spotting the opportunities, building the partnerships, and continually adapting to shape the places that meet the needs of a changing world. Places where life happens. Where businesses grow. And where cities are defined.

Location

This role is based in London Victoria, and offers hybrid working, with majority of the working week in the office. We recommend discussing arrangements with the hiring manager.

The role

• As Product Owner, you are responsible for setting the strategic direction for the D365 and OneStream solution functionality to meet the Finance organisation needs and providing oversight of the optimisation transformation objectives.

• You will drive product strategy, roadmap and execution and have the ability to take a business idea from inception to production, delivering significant business value in the process. You will also advise and support the business with process improvements. This could involve improved reporting, changing existing processes to fully utilise product functionality.

Principle accountabilities

• Accountable for the management and optimisation of strategic products across the company

• Formulate the vision, strategy and roadmap for the set of products you work on in the portfolio (product mix, new products, retirement of old products), and work with others in aligning the strategic priorities, dependencies and roadmap across the product portfolio

• Working with the Finance organisation to support optimisation transformation objectives through the use of D365 and Onestream, together with advising on wider process improvements

• Lead a team of c4 direct reports

• Ensuring alignment of D365 and Onestream and supporting wider data governance processes

• Finance Transformation Delivery Forum member accountable for providing roadmap for optimisations

• Quickly build market knowledge and assess new product opportunities (gathering ideas, research, carrying out analysis, refining and prioritising new requirements)

• Plan and co-ordinate significant product efforts that have dependencies on multiple product and engineering teams

• Steer sprint/release planning sessions by work with your engineering counterparts to plan sprints/ releases that deliver maximum business value with the least effort

• Identify and drive improvements to the way in which product performance and service levels are measured to ensure product quality, reliability and security

• Manage the supplier strategy for your product domain identifying third party suppliers and business partners, and managing existing relationships

• Lead discovery work around a minimum viable product (MVP) for any new product/ feature, and engineering teams to prototype and validate an MVP

• Help the team in breaking down a complex piece of work/ epic into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster

• Provide leadership and direction to cross functional team(s) on short-term tasks/ near-term priorities

• Are accountable for the performance/ adoption of your product and work towards increasing it

• Contribute towards hiring/ building a great pool of Product Owners for your own and other functions

Decision making authority

• Recommending roadmap for optimisations to Finance Transformation Delivery Forum for approval

• Execution of changes within approved roadmap

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience of D365 and OneStream

• Proven experience overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle

• Strong decision making and prioritization skills

• Excellent facilitation skills to effectively gather requirements from senior business leaders

• Highly effective cross-functional team management

• Exceptional writing and editing skills combined with strong presentation and public speaking skills

• Supplier management and negotiation skills

• Working knowledge of digital tools including Miro and Jira

• Degree educated or relevant professional background

• Qualified accountant

Life and Benefits at Landsec

We have a great benefits package, there to support you with your work-life balance and in moments that matter. We offer fantastic Learning and Development opportunities to help you grow and reach your potential and we also play our part in supporting the communities where we live and work.

Below are some of our core benefits, make sure to visit our My Total Reward page for more information.

• Performance based annual bonus plan

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) rising to 27 days after 2 years and the option to purchase up to 10 additional days each year. Enjoy an additional three-day December festive break on top of your leave and a special ‘My Day’ to take off for whatever you choose.

• Enhanced pension contributions – Landsec will contribute up to 10.5% subject to your contribution.

• Private medical insurance, Health Cash Plan, Life assurance and income protection.

• Enhanced maternity, adoption, shared parental leave policies (view our Family policies page for details)

• Two different share plans enabling you to share in the success you will help to build

• Up to 4 working days to volunteer per year and 'Give As You Earn' programmes allowing you to donate to charities straight out of your pay and we top up by 20%

And when it comes to your health and wellbeing you will also have access to other benefits: our employee assistance programme, digital GP, cycle to work scheme, a mindfulness app and a health app supporting fertility and menopause

Diversity and Inclusion

At Landsec, we value diversity & inclusion. We work to better reflect the diversity of the communities we work within and empower everyone who works at Landsec to realise their potential.

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