Product Owner FPA Function Controlling

A Snapshot of Your Day

You will serve as the primary business-facing interface for the digitalization team, driving the vision for new solutions. You will focus on three core areas: defining the product strategy and managing the development backlog, translating business needs into technical requirements while acting as a bridge between finance and engineering, and overseeing the end-to-end delivery and adoption of new digital solutions.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Product Strategy & Backlog Management

• Translate FP&A strategy into a prioritized product roadmap and backlog, focusing on business value and strategic objectives.

• Define and articulate the product vision, user stories, and acceptance criteria for new automation and digitalization initiatives.

• Act as the primary point of contact for new feature requests into the digitalization team, analyzing underlying problems to propose innovative solutions.

• Prioritize the product backlog continuously to ensure the development team is working on features that deliver the most value to the business.

• Stakeholder Engagement & Business Process Translation

• Act as the 'bridge' between finance business stakeholders and the engineering team to foster mutual understanding and alignment.

• Engage with stakeholders across Function Controlling to gather requirements, ensure consensus on solutions, and manage expectations.

• Analyze and map core Function Controlling processes, including forecasting, reporting, and cost allocation, to identify opportunities for digital transformation.

• Lead stakeholder workshops and communication efforts to keep the organization aligned on product development, release schedules, and new functionalities.

• Solution Delivery & Governance

• Coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT), quality gates, training, and support frameworks to ensure successful product deployment and adoption.

• Champion the use of automation and AI solutions while maintaining a balanced view of their benefits and limitations for the finance function.

• Ensure all product development and releases comply with corporate governance frameworks, including CYS, FIN, and IT audit requirements.

What You Bring

• University degree in Finance, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Requires a proven track record in Agile product delivery, with experience translating business requirements into digital solutions.
• Several years of professional experience in financial disciplines such as FP&A or controlling, combined with experience in a product management or business analysis role.
• Demonstrated experience managing stakeholders in a global, cross-functional environment.
• Expertise and knowledge in: Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Financial Controlling, Business Process Analysis, Cost Allocation and Internal Billing
• Familiar with Agile Methodologies, Product Roadmap Management, Requirements Gathering, User Story Development, SAP Finance Landscape
• Good in communication, having a problem solving mindset and strategic thinking

About The Team In our Transformation Office, the Project Management team plays a pivotal role in driving strategic initiatives. We focus on delivering innovative solutions, ensuring effective governance, and fostering collaboration across programs to achieve our ambitious transformation goals and enhance operational efficiency.

Who is Siemens Energy? At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
• We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
• In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical

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