Product Manager - Finance Data & Analytics

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Job Summary 

The Product Manager will support Finance Data & Analytics by designing, developing, and managing the lifecycle of Finance-focused data products from concept through delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement. This role translates Finance business needs into clear product requirements, partners cross-functionally with engineering and business stakeholders, and helps deliver scalable analytics, reporting, and BI capabilities that improve decision-making and operational efficiency. 

The ideal candidate combines product management discipline with financial knowledge, data analytics experience, SQL/technical capability, and a strong self-starter mindset. This role requires someone who can ramp quickly, operate in a fast-paced environment, and manage product development end to end while staying closely aligned with Finance stakeholders and technology teams. 

Key Responsibilities 

Product Lifecycle Management 

• Manage Finance data product development from discovery and requirements through delivery, UAT, adoption, and ongoing enhancement. 

• Identify improvements to existing product processes and develop a strong understanding of related business processes, data flows, and technology dependencies. 

Product Strategy, Vision, and Roadmap 

• Support product strategy and roadmap development by translating Finance stakeholder needs into prioritized product capabilities. 

• Complete ad-hoc assignments that help shape product direction, backlog priorities, and delivery sequencing. 

Market, Business, and Customer Analysis 

• Research business needs, stakeholder pain points, reporting gaps, and opportunities to improve Finance data products and analytics outcomes. 

• Prepare analysis and recommendations related to financial position, operational needs, and product value. 

Business Case and Value Definition 

• Collaborate on business cases, opportunity reviews, and financial models with more senior team members and Finance stakeholders. 

• Define measurable success criteria and product value drivers, including adoption, efficiency, quality, and stakeholder impact. 

Data Analytics and BI Enablement 

• Use data analytics to define metrics, interpret trends, identify insights, and inform product decisions. 

• Partner with BI, analytics, and engineering teams to support dashboards, reporting, semantic layer needs, and self-service analytics capabilities. 

• BI capability is a plus, including experience with dashboards, reporting tools, semantic layers, data visualization, or self-service analytics. 

Technical Partnership and SQL 

• Apply SQL experience and technical background to partner effectively with data engineering, analytics, and business teams. 

• Help clarify data requirements, validate logic, support UAT, and communicate technical concepts in business-friendly language. 

Backlog Prioritization and Delivery Execution 

• Support backlog refinement, requirements elaboration, prioritization, dependency tracking, and delivery readiness. 

• Collaborate closely with technology teams to ensure requirements are actionable, testable, and aligned to business outcomes. 

Test Case Definition and UAT Coordination 

• Refine allowable configurations, define test cases, coordinate UAT, validate outputs, and support stakeholder sign-off. 

• Document decisions, open questions, risks, and follow-up actions to drive alignment and delivery transparency. 

Stakeholder Management and Cross-Functional Collaboration 

• Manage stakeholder expectations within and across Finance, data engineering, analytics, operations, and other cross-functional teams. 

• Proactively include the right stakeholders, communicate clearly, and support training or enablement where needed. 

Qualifications and Ramp Expectations 

• 5+ years of relevant experience preferred. 

• Bachelor's degree preferred. 

• Financial acumen and working knowledge of Finance business processes, with the ability to translate Finance needs into product requirements and data solutions. 

• Hands-on SQL experience and a strong technical background. 

• AI data product solutions experience 

• Data analytics experience, including defining metrics, interpreting trends, and using data to inform decisions. 

• BI capability is a plus, including exposure to dashboards, reporting tools, semantic layers, or self-service analytics. 

• Self-learner and self-starter who can ramp quickly, take ownership, and operate independently with appropriate guidance. 

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities, cross-functional dependencies, and delivery timelines. 

• Experience managing product development end to end, from discovery and requirements through prioritization, delivery, testing, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement. 

Success Profile 

• Strong communicator who can bridge Finance, business, analytics, and technical teams. 

• Structured problem solver who can break ambiguous needs into clear requirements, priorities, and delivery actions. 

• Collaborative partner who values transparency, proactive follow-up, and stakeholder alignment. 

• Product-minded owner who balances business value, data quality, technical feasibility, and user adoption.