Finance & Accounting ERP Product Owner

Silco Fire & Security Company; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training & Certifications paid

Top Workplace recognition

Family-owned since 1931

Veteran-friendly environment

Job summary

Silco Fire & Security is seeking an experienced Product Owner to partner with our Finance and Accounting teams, guiding requirements, backlogs and ERP transition efforts. You will analyze needs, define clear options, and balance cost, risk and value to drive impactful solutions.

The role focuses on owning the backlog for finance reports and dashboards, ensuring accuracy and business alignment, while collaborating with IT and business stakeholders to deliver value-driven outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of combined experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst or Business Systems Analyst.
• Experience delivering in agile and hybrid environments.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and facilitation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to balance competing priorities and make data-driven decisions.
• Proficiency in data analysis and validation.
• Working knowledge of core finance and accounting processes such as purchasing, payroll, month-end close and reconciliations.
• Solid understanding of system integrations, data structures and how changes in one system affect others.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence or equivalent tools.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Finance and Accounting leadership to define and communicate a roadmap for the systems, reports and dashboards that support their teams, aligned with business goals.
• Turn opportunities and pain points into well-defined initiatives that balance near-term needs with longer-term objectives.
• Gather and document requirements through interviews, workshops and direct observation of how work gets done.
• Map current-state and future-state business processes, identifying gaps, inefficiencies, control risks and improvement opportunities.
• Write requirements, business rules and data mappings clear enough for developers and testers to act on.
• Own and prioritize the Finance and Accounting backlog based on business value, risk, effort and technical feasibility; write user stories and acceptance criteria and keep the backlog ready for sprint planning.
• Plan and coordinate user acceptance testing with business users before release.
• Analyze and validate data to support requirements, troubleshoot issues and quantify business impact.
• Own the backlog for Finance and Accounting reports and dashboards so they are accurate, trusted and aligned to how the business makes decisions; consolidate or retire redundant reports.
• Understand the technical architecture and data well enough to assess options, identify risks and dependencies, and weigh configuration, customization, integration and process-change trade-offs.
• Work closely with internal and external teams; take an active role in sprint planning, review and retrospective meetings.
• Serve as an internal consultant to Finance and Accounting, presenting good/better/best options with clear trade-offs in cost, effort, risk and value, and explaining technical constraints in business terms.
• Build trusted relationships with business users and leadership; communicate updates, progress and priorities clearly.
• Represent Finance and Accounting in the ERP replacement: requirements definition, vendor evaluation, fit-gap analysis, data migration and reconciliation, testing, cutover planning and change management.
• Help the business use the ERP transition to simplify processes and reporting rather than carry forward workarounds.
• Monitor process and system performance, identify opportunities for improvement and automation, and iterate on delivered solutions based on user feedback.

Skills

Product Owner

Business Analysis

Agile & Hybrid

Communication

Data analysis

Finance processes

Jira

Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Silco Fire & Security is seeking an experienced Product Owner to partner with our Finance and Accounting teams, guiding requirements, backlogs and ERP transition efforts. You will analyze needs, define clear options, and balance cost, risk and value to drive impactful solutions.

The role focuses on owning the backlog for finance reports and dashboards, ensuring accuracy and business alignment, while collaborating with IT and business stakeholders to deliver value-driven outcomes.