Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Sr. Product Owner with Workday experience in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid).
Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.
Contract Duration: 24 Months
This role has a unique opportunity to strengthen our Workday US/North America Payroll product. We are going through an exciting implementation of Canada payroll, and also delivering custom built solutions leveraging Workday Extend. We continue to look at innovative ways to deliver payroll for our employees and this role has a unique ability to influence and deliver that roadmap.
In this role, you will:
Advise leadership to develop or influence business plans, business requirements, direct product design and implementation for complex HR business and technical needs
Oversee overall product management and strategic focus for the most technical, complex, and diverse HR products and services
Lead the strategy and resolution of complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth understanding of potential synergies and opportunities companywide
Deliver solutions that are long-term, large scale, and require consideration of global market dynamics, trends, regulatory impact, and risk management
Provide vision, direction, and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are strategically focused
Articulate the Payroll product vision, define scope, prioritize backlog, establish goals, and provide direction for teams to design, develop, and deliver technology and processes for updating, upgrading technologies and vendor relationships
Manage processes and routines needed to ensure that the product predictably delivers value, adjust planning in situations that may include financial, control, or process roadblocks
Inspect pre-release progress, recommend changes, and ensure timelines are met
Develop and monitor product roadmap and key performance indicators, identify improvement opportunities, and ensure regulatory and policy compliance
Ensure cross-functional dependencies and business readiness needs are articulated, managed, and addressed to successfully execute work with quality and on-time
Engage with leaders, stakeholders, subject matter experts, scrum masters, project managers and delivery team companywide
Serve as an expert advisor to executives on complex, visible, and diverse solutions
Required Qualifications:
7+ years of Product Management, product development, strategic planning, process management, change delivery, or agile product owner experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications:
3+ years Agile experience
7+ years of HR Systems experience (e.g., Workday, Peoplesoft, SAP, ServiceNow HRSD (Human Resource Service Delivery), Oracle, or similar)
6+ years of Workday Payroll experience leading a product team
5+ years of experience with SaaS (Software as a Service) based payroll vendors (e.g., ADP, Earned Wage Access, etc.)
Experience implementing Workday Payroll functionality in US and Canada (international) preferred
3+ years of experience with ServiceNow HR Service Delivery (HRSD)
Experience consulting, implementing, and owning Human Resource products and tools
Experience leading scrum teams in an Agile environment and strong Agile knowledge
Experience influencing and managing cross-functional work streams to execute initiatives with quality and on-time
Experience leading and facilitating workshops and discussions to effectively gather requirements and achieve a detailed understanding of client objectives and desired outcomes
Experience integrating systems with third-party service vendors