Product Owner

Reuben Cooley Inc.; Cary (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Reuben Cooley Inc. in Cary, NC seeks a Senior Product Owner with deep ERP Finance experience to own the Finance data, integration, and reporting backlog for a major modernization effort.

You will bridge Finance business teams, Workday consultants, and Azure data engineers, turning complex requirements into trusted data products with strong governance and scalable design. The ideal candidate has 8+ years in ERP Finance, proven ability to elicit requirements, write user stories, and lead UAT in an

Qualifications

• 8+ years in ERP Finance, Finance Systems, finance data, business analysis, functional consulting, or product ownership.
• Strong functional knowledge of Finance modules in at least one major ERP platform (Workday, PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics).
• Solid knowledge of GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, financial close, reconciliations, financial controls, and financial reporting.
• Experience on ERP implementation, modernization, migration, or finance transformation programs, including go-lives.
• Proven ability to elicit requirements, produce user stories, acceptance criteria, process and data documentation, and UAT scenarios.
• Comfort operating with CFO stakeholders and data engineers on mappings and defects.
• Experience in Agile delivery using Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Own the Finance data, integration, and reporting backlog for the ERP modernization program.
• Bridge Finance business teams, Workday functional consultants, and Azure data engineering teams.
• Translate requirements into well-governed, data-driven finance products and capabilities.
• Collaborate across data mappings, transformations, and testing with engineers and QA.

Skills

ERP Finance

Finance data

User stories

UAT scenarios

Agile delivery

Stakeholder mgmt

Backlog mgmt

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Workday

PeopleSoft

SAP

Oracle

Dynamics

Job description

Job Title: Senior Product Owner: Finance Data & ERP Modernization

Location: Cary, NC (hybrid)

Experience: 8+ years

Summary:

We are looking for a senior Product Owner with deep ERP Finance functional experience to own the Finance data, integration, and reporting backlog for this transformation. You will sit between Finance business teams, Workday functional consultants, and the Azure data engineering team, turning close, reporting, and control requirements into a trusted, well-governed set of finance data products.

Required

• 8+ years in ERP Finance, Finance Systems, finance data, business analysis, functional consulting, or product ownership, including time as the accountable Product Owner or functional lead on a significant workstream.
• Strong functional knowledge of Finance modules in at least one major ERP platform: Workday, PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics.
• Solid command of GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, financial close, reconciliations, financial controls, and financial reporting.
• Demonstrated experience on ERP implementation, modernization, migration, or finance transformation programs, ideally including at least one full lifecycle through go-live.
• Proven ability to elicit requirements and produce user stories, acceptance criteria, process and data documentation, and UAT scenarios.
• Comfort operating across both worlds: credible with CFO-organization stakeholders and equally effective with data engineers on mappings, transformations, and defects.
• Experience in Agile delivery using Jira, Azure DevOps, or a comparable backlog-management tool.

Preferred:

• Insurance or financial services experience, with exposure to statutory reporting, insurance accounting (STAT/GAAP), or data from actuarial, investment, reinsurance, or risk functions.
• Hands-on experience with PeopleSoft Financials and/or Workday Financial Management, including Workday integration patterns (EIB, Core Connectors, Prism) or FDM design.
• Experience with finance data migration, data integration, data warehousing, or building certified data products.
• Familiarity with Azure, Databricks, ADF, ADLS Gen 2, Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, or Snowflake, enough to reason about feasibility and cost with engineers.
• Exposure to FP&A, budgeting, planning, consolidation, procurement, or enterprise reporting tools (e.g., Adaptive, Anaplan, Power BI, OneStream).
• Product Owner, Agile/Scrum (CSPO, PSPO), ERP Finance, or accounting certification (CPA, CMA) a plus.