Exciting Opportunity: Product Owner IT Accounting & Control

Do you thrive on developing and managing the IT landscape for our NIBC Finance Accounting & Control domain?

Job Description

As our Product Owner (PO), you will play a key role in maximizing the value delivered by the Accounting & Control IT delivery team. You will collaborate closely with the Business Owner of Finance and the IT Manager Finance & Risk to translate business demands into strategic roadmaps, detailing initiatives and domain roadmaps as epics, which you will then guide into the team backlog as user stories. As the team's primary advocate, you will align business and technology strategies, enabling the team to balance multiple stakeholders needs while continuously evolving solutions and ensuring compliance with the wide range of IT regulations within the banking domain.

Main Responsibilities

• Craft and maintain a product vision and roadmap for both run and change activities, drawing from market insights and IT trends.
• Manage and prioritize the Team Backlog based on value, and guide epics from the Domain Backlog into the Team Backlog.
• Ensure the team only works on items that are refined, acting as a safeguard and facilitator.
• Act as a sparring partner for the team, ensuring the solutions follow best practices for accounting systems and ETL processes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including the Business Owner, end users, Domain Architect, IT Manager, and Transformation Office, valuing all perspectives while setting priorities based on value.
• Support the delivery team in maximizing value delivery through tools and automated solutions, and clearly articulate the items on the team backlog.
• Grasp the critical success factors for Accounting & Control by understanding the context of financial closures and what matters most in this process.
• Actively contribute to the Product Owner Center of Expertise.
• Coordinate release plans with key stakeholders and other teams when dependencies exist, while incorporating the team’s estimates.
• Conduct non-functional controls on the IT product or service delivered by the team, ensuring IT solutions are secure and compliant.

Your Challenge

In 2024, we expanded the Agile Way of Working (WoW) to include the business side by appointing Business Owners (BOs), who gather all functional needs and demands for their respective business domains. Each IT team now has a dedicated Product Owner and Scrum Master. You will join the Accounting & Control IT delivery team, which is responsible for managing the IT landscape that supports the Finance domain. The main challenge is implementing reporting and mapping requirements for ABN AMRO and facilitating the upcoming integration into the ABN AMRO technical landscape. At the same time, you will help ensure the smooth operation and continuous improvement of business-as-usual (BAU) processes, which are pivotal to NIBC’s financial reporting.

Your Team

You will step into the role of Product Owner for the IT Accounting & Control delivery team at NIBC. This dynamic team is at the heart of managing the IT landscape for our Finance business domain, where we provide essential IT support for NIBC’s general ledger and reporting capabilities.

As PO, you will become part of the broader IT Finance & Risk department, which includes the IT Accounting & Control team, the IT Regulatory Reporting team, and the IT Risk, Legal & Compliance team. An IT Service Manager also works in the department. You will report to the Head of IT Finance, Risk & Retail; team members report to the IT Manager Finance & Risk.

NIBC as an IT Employer

We are closely connected, with few management layers and short lines of communication. If you have a good idea today, you may be executing it tomorrow.

What’s in It for You?

NIBC is an ambitious environment where we work together to create a fantastic workplace in which you feel safe and challenged to become the best version of yourself. To increase our professionalism, we focus on giving each other continuous feedback.

In addition, you will receive a competitive salary, plus:

• Several ways to support your personal and professional development, including a personal development budget to spend at your own discretion and a professional budget provided by your manager to support your development at work.
• Working in a hybrid way to maintain a healthy work-life balance while still being connected and collaborating physically with each other. NIBC's guideline is to spend at least half of the working time at the office.
• Travel expenses covered, or a first-class NS Business Card.
• 32 holidays (which do not have to be registered).
• Excellent pension scheme (26% NIBC contribution).
• A voucher to improve your home office.
• The opportunity to take ownership and show initiative in your role. We are always open to new ideas and encourage you to use your voice.
• Our Grow to Make a Difference program enables you to take charge of your own development, with broad growth opportunities within IT.
• Two staff associations: YoungNIBC and MyLeisure.
• A vitality program and annual company-wide sports and leisure days.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Laptop and a company phone.
• Excellent facilities at the office, including a coffee corner, restaurant, and bar.
• A fun workplace.

What Do You Bring?

Our ideal candidate is a proactive and collaborative Product Owner with:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or comparable relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of relevant working experience in a leading role within an Agile IT banking environment.
• Experience with, and knowledge of, finance functions, products, and systems in a banking environment.
• Experience with, and knowledge of, IT, specifically application management and ETL processes.
• Knowledge of IT-related banking regulations and relevant IT standards and best practices.
• A high level of initiative, ownership, and self-motivation, with the ability to work in a team environment.
• Great communication skills; fluent written and verbal English. Proficiency in Dutch is an advantage.
• Knowledge of and experience with Agile and Scrum are required.
• Preferably: Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) / Certified Scrum Product Owner.
• Preferably: Professional Scrum Product Owner – Advanced (PSPO-A).
• Understanding of the SAFe model.