Corporate Finance - General Ledger Product Owner Analyst

General Ledger Product Owner Analyst

The Firmwide Finance Business Architecture team (FFBA) is accountable for leading large-scale data, infrastructure, accounting standard and business process change management events and the Chief Data Office for Finance and Treasury & Chief Investment Office (TCIO). The team also provides a centralized program management and business analysis capability, targeted program governance, and consistent application of program management standards including system testing and change management practices, with a current focus on overseeing the Data Acquisition framework for strategic and legacy Finance, TCIO, and Wholesale Credit Risk platforms.

As a General Ledger Product Owner Analyst on the Change Management team within the Firmwide Finance Business Architecture, you will play a key role in supporting project planning, execution, and tracking to ensure successful delivery of strategic line of business programs and general ledger initiatives. This role involves working closely cross functional teams to coordinate tasks, monitor development and testing, and deploying projects to the general ledger. In this role, you will help improve project efficiency by maintaining documentation, identifying risks, and streamlining workflows. This role also partners closely with Line of Business stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and technology teams across Finance and Program Management teams.

Job responsibilities:

• Organizing, scheduling, coordinating, and controlling project activities and resources
• Identifying issues and risks including defining a mitigation strategy and effective risk management approaches
• Working closely with partners to resolve issues and roadblocks and escalate to managers and stakeholders as needed
• Ensuring operational readiness through both rigorous testing and implementation management
• Supporting operating model impact assessments and documentation of changes, and driving the implementation communication
• Driving components of the various initiatives, coordinating across technology and the businesses
• Defining and executing project deliverables, including business requirements
• Creating project scorecards, providing senior management updates

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 1+ years of related professional experience as a Project Manager and/or Business Analyst
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business
• Jira & Confluence experience to effectively manage projects and support teams best practices
• Strong critical and creative thinking skills with ability to synthesize complex data sets to develop business insights and translate to practical solutions
• Strong partnership skills; experience working with and influencing key stakeholders in drive strategic decisions and preparing succinct presentations
• Ability to perform in a high pressure and fast paced environment
• Highly disciplined, self-motivated, and delivery-focused individual who is able to work independently
• Excellent analytical and communication skills (verbal and written)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience with project delivery discipline, Agile discipline a plus