Product Owner - D365 / Business Central Online 

Posted 05 January 2023
Salary 60000-70000
LocationSurrey
Job type Permanent
Discipline Enterprise Applications (SAP/Salesforce/MS Dynamics)
Reference57861
Contact NameCallum Gough-Mackay
Remote working Hybrid/Flexible

Job description

Product Owner - D365 / Business Central Online 

Location – Hook, Hampshire
Salary - £65,000 per annum + Car Allowance + Bonus

Purpose of the role:
The role of the Product Owner is to deliver continuous improvement and development of Finance applications, working alongside our Finance and Applications teams within the business.

This role contributes by:
  • Providing technical support to demand or change processes; transform business requirements into a backlog of software requirements; working with internal & external consultants to deliver necessary customisations or configuration changes within Finance systems, such as Business Central online.
  • Leading the delivery of product changes; The Product Owner works closely with their team to define the product backlog of features to be built to deliver maximum benefit to Constellation and its customers.
  • Liaising with Enterprise Application third party providers and help to optimize utilization of the offered service portfolio and drive customizations.
Role Accountabilities:
  • Deliver Enterprise Application Product changes for Business Central. This can include eliciting and documenting business requirements, determining and justifying cost estimates and compiling business cases, build and implementing changes.
  • Maintain good relationships with business stakeholders to identify/capture change/development needs and provide input to prioritising the delivery of these changes.   
  • Identify, where there are gaps in existing systems and what work would be needed to deliver changes. When presented with solutions, ensure that due diligence of the proposal is completed and that appropriate challenges are made.
  • Maintain good relationships with external technology partners to deliver system changes, aligning with business priorities and within acceptable timelines.
  • Elicit, understand, and challenge business processes and, in conjunction with business stakeholders and Solution Architects, propose and agree modifications where appropriate to allow a more efficient/more performant/more secure/more resilient or simply feasible solution to be put in place.
  • Build Product backlogs to summarise objectives, outline business case, scope, completion/acceptance criteria and other components of change items. Manage and maintain product backlogs from inception to delivery ensuring successful build, test and go-live
Required Skills:
  • Strong technical product knowledge and domain expertise in Business Central Online or Dynamics 365
  • High level understanding of highly transactional finance processes in a sales-oriented business.
  • Experience of, or certification in, accounting processes
  • Clear understanding of Agile software development methodologies.
  • Knowledge of software development processes and procedures and iterative delivery.
  • Understanding of integrations, APIs and Web Services.
  • Successful experience of technology projects with focus on Cloud / SAAS solutions
  • Be facilitative – must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to the teams.
  • Attitude of transparency – have the desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about delivery and grow business trust.