Business Analyst/Product Owner with financial experience

For one of our clients, we are looking for a Product Owner/Business Analyst responsible for maximizing product value delivered by a cross-functional development team building a next-generation HR/ERP platform.

Acting as the main link between finance SMEs and the delivery team, you will translate complex accounting and operational workflows into a clear product roadmap and prioritized backlog, ensuring solutions align with customer needs, business objectives, and quality standards within an Agile environment.
Requirements:
Experience & Knowledge

- Minimum 2 years in a PO role, or 3–5 years in a similar BA/PO position in a Scrum environment

- Proven experience delivering complex IT/software products in the accounting/finance domain

- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum frameworks and the full product development lifecycle

- Experience working with cross-functional and distributed teams

- Ability to balance business priorities, technical constraints, and user needs

- Experience collaborating with multiple Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) — accountants, finance controllers, auditors

Skills

- Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable experience

- Experience in Payments (preparation, processing, validation and execution)

- Experience in Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences

- Proven ability to build alignment across diverse stakeholders and drive decisions that unlock the next actionable piece of work

- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities

- Ability to clearly define and communicate product requirements and decisions

- Experience in creating high-quality user stories, acceptance criteria, and product documentation

- Strong prioritization and decision-making skills — comfortable cutting scope and making calls under uncertainty

- Ability to work independently while maintaining a high level of transparency

Tools & Practices

- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps and Miro

· AI proficiency
· Familiarity with UX principles

- Understanding of API-based systems and integrations relevant to ERP ecosystems

· Data-driven mindset
Nice to Have

- Domain experience with ERP or HR systems

- Understanding of core accounting principles (double-entry bookkeeping, period-end close, multi-entity reporting)

- Familiarity with Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) as a collaborative way of working - using structured examples and shared language to introduce and validate new domains or implementation phases before development begins

- Professional certification: CBAP, PSPO or equivalent

Main responsibilities:

- Work closely with SMEs to define and scope upcoming implementation phases

- Translate business needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria, in collaboration with the technical team

- Communicate, follow and understand the client's product vision, strategy, and roadmap

- Collaborate with client, development teams, UX/UI, QA and Scrum Master/PM

- Accept or reject completed work based on acceptance criteria

- Support the testing process, ensuring delivered features meet defined acceptance criteria and business expectations

- Introduce new domains and phases using Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) as a structured, team-wide way of working

- Report on delivered work and communicate outcomes to stakeholders, maintaining visibility of progress against the roadmap

- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and demos

- Manage dependencies and mitigate delivery risks

- Drive product improvements using data, feedback, and KPIs as expert and align with the client

Originally posted on Himalayas