Product Owner IT Accounting & Control

nibcatwork; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel expenses covered

NS Business Card

Hybrid work model

32 holidays

Job summary

NIBC is seeking a Product Owner for the IT Accounting & Control delivery team to translate business needs into strategic roadmaps and backlogs, balancing stakeholder demands while ensuring regulatory compliance in a banking IT landscape.

You will collaborate with Finance Business Owners, IT managers, domain architects, and other stakeholders to guide epics, refine items, and maximize value delivery across run and change activities, including regulatory reporting and BAU improvements.

Responsibilities

• Craft and maintain a product vision and roadmap for run and change activities, drawing from market insights and IT trends.
• Manage and prioritize the Team Backlog based on value, and guide epics from the Domain Backlog into the Team Backlog.
• Ensure the team only works on items that are refined, acting as a safeguard and facilitator.
• Act as a sparring partner for the team, ensuring the solutions follow best practices for accounting systems and ETL processes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including the Business Owner, end users, Domain Architect, IT Manager, and Transformation Office, valuing all perspectives while setting priorities based on value.
• Support the delivery team in maximizing value delivery through tools and automated solutions, and clearly articulate the items on the team backlog.
• Grasp the critical success factors for Accounting & Control by understanding the context of financial closures and what matters most in this process.
• Actively contribute to the Product Owner Center of Expertise.
• Coordinate release plans with key stakeholders and other teams when dependencies exist, while incorporating the team's estimates.
• Conduct non-functional controls on the IT product or service delivered by the team, ensuring IT solutions are secure and compliant

Job description

Summary:

Do you thrive on developing and managing the IT landscape for our NIBC Finance Accounting & Control domain?

Job Description:

As our Product Owner (PO), you will play a key role in maximizing the value delivered by the Accounting & Control IT delivery team. You will collaborate closely with the Business Owner of Finance and the IT Manager Finance & Risk to translate business demands into strategic roadmaps, detailing initiatives and domain roadmaps as epics, which you will then guide into the team backlog as user stories. As the team's primary advocate, you will align business and technology strategies, enabling the team to balance multiple stakeholders needs while continuously evolving solutions and ensuring compliance with the wide range of IT regulations within the banking domain.

Main Responsibilities

• Craft and maintain a product vision and roadmap for both run and change activities, drawing from market insights and IT trends.
• Manage and prioritize the Team Backlog based on value, and guide epics from the Domain Backlog into the Team Backlog.
• Ensure the team only works on items that are refined, acting as a safeguard and facilitator.
• Act as a sparring partner for the team, ensuring the solutions follow best practices for accounting systems and ETL processes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including the Business Owner, end users, Domain Architect, IT Manager, and Transformation Office, valuing all perspectives while setting priorities based on value.
• Support the delivery team in maximizing value delivery through tools and automated solutions, and clearly articulate the items on the team backlog.
• Grasp the critical success factors for Accounting & Control by understanding the context of financial closures and what matters most in this process.
• Actively contribute to the Product Owner Center of Expertise.
• Coordinate release plans with key stakeholders and other teams when dependencies exist, while incorporating the team's estimates.
• Conduct non-functional controls on the IT product or service delivered by the team, ensuring IT solutions are secure and compliant

Your Challenge

In 2024, we expanded the Agile Way of Working (WoW) to include the business side by appointing Business Owners (BOs), who gather all functional needs and demands for their respective business domains. Each IT team now has a dedicated Product Owner and Scrum Master. You will join the Accounting & Control IT delivery team, which is responsible for managing the IT landscape that supports the Finance domain. The main challenge is implementing reporting and mapping requirements for ABN AMRO and facilitating the upcoming integration into the ABN AMRO technical landscape. At the same time, you will help ensure the smooth operation and continuous improvement of business-as-usual (BAU) processes, which are pivotal to NIBC's financial reporting.

Your Team

You will step into the role of Product Owner for the IT Accounting & Control delivery team at NIBC. This dynamic team is at the heart of managing the IT landscape for our Finance business domain, where we provide essential IT support for NIBC's general ledger and reporting capabilities.

As PO, you will become part of the broader IT Finance & Risk department, which includes the IT Accounting & Control team, the IT Regulatory Reporting team, and the IT Risk, Legal & Compliance team. An IT Service Manager also works in the department. You will report to the Head of IT Finance, Risk & Retail; team members report to the IT Manager Finance & Risk.

NIBC as an IT Employer

NIBC is on an exciting transformation journey, evolving from a traditional financial services provider into a digital banking company. We are committed to a forward-thinking, can-do attitude, known as our "THINK YES" mentality. Our IT team is a catalyst for digital innovation, driving meaningful changes in our client relationships and business processes. We are closely connected, with few management layers and short lines of communication. If you have a good idea today, you may be executing it tomorrow.

What's in It for You?

NIBC is an ambitious environment where we work together to create a fantastic workplace in which you feel safe and challenged to become the best version of yourself. To increase our professionalism, we focus on giving each other continuous feedback.

In addition, you will receive a competitive salary, plus:

Several ways to support your personal and professional development, including:

• A personal development budget to spend at your own discretion
• A professional budget provided by your manager to support your development at work
• Working in a hybrid way to maintain a healthy work-life balance while still being connected and collaborating physically with each other. This is one of the drivers of our entrepreneurial and inventive culture. NIBC's guideline is to spend at least half of the working time at the office.
• Travel expenses covered, or a first-class NS Business Card
• 32 holidays (whic