Senior Product Owner / Project Manager Forecast and Budget Innovation

Senior Product Owner / Project Manager Forecast and Budget Innovation bij ABN AMRO

At a glance

Are you ready to lead innovation and drive transformation in budgeting and forecasting at ABN AMRO? Do you get enthusiastic when you hear the words creating digital solutions, managing a complex project, and driving process optimization? We are looking for a skilled Product Owner/project lead for the OneForecast program and team. In the OneForecast program, you will have the opportunity to improve the Controlling community's processes with Tagetik. This program aims to enhance budgeting and forecasting by introducing automation, improving reliability, and standardizing procedures, ultimately moving towards data-driven and predictive forecasting. If improving the key steering processes of the bank sounds like a challenge to you, then this role is just the job for you!

Your job

You will be the Product Owner / Project Manager of the project scrum team (10-15 FTE) that drives and implements the innovation and improvement of budgeting and forecasting in Tagetik (the tooling) for the Controlling community in a program called: OneForecast 2.0. The OneForecast 2.0 program is a pivotal project, aiming to improve the budgeting and forecasting processes of Controlling through a more automated, robust and standardised way of working. Ultimately the goal is to move to data driven forecasting and predictive forecasting.

Next to that, you own a product that is already live and in use by CFO teams across the bank. This is called OneForecast 1.0. You make sure with the team that the monthly, quarterly and yearly processes stay up to date and run reliably.
In your role as Product Owner you ensure the prioritization, planning and execution for OneForecast 1.0, OneForecast program 2.0 as well as the associated stakeholder management. Your stakeholders include the MT Controlling and the OneForecast 2.0 Sounding Board in particular. This is an important element of your role. You understand how to influence and have impact in a wide range of stakeholders and how to manage and converge towards clear choices in a high demand environment with scarcity of capacity. Together with the other Product Owners you support the Domain Lead in creating a prioritized roadmap which is frequently optimized and updated according to a quickly changing environment. You manage the dependencies the team faces with other teams and departments within Finance & Risk.

Although you don’t have a formal managerial role, informally you have attention for coaching and development of employees, especially the business developers in the team.

Working environment

The OneForecast team is part of the Controlling Domain. The Domain consists of 4 scrum teams (in total approximately 50 fte). The other teams focus on processing the actuals every month and reporting the results towards the Executive Board.

We believe in balancing work with fun, so we make sure to include social activities alongside our professional interactions. Each month, we host a casual get-together with the Domain where we share updates over some snacks and drinks. Additionally, we organize regular fun events—last year, we enjoyed a table football tournament and even tried sheep herding!

Your profile

• 5-8 years of experience in a similar position (work and reason at university level), preferably within the banking sector;
• Experience and knowledge of Finance (preferably forecasting and budgeting);
• Experience with leading a formal project/program and change management in a complex environment with stakeholders on senior management level, preferably finance or risk IT;
• Experience with Tagetik (or similar budget and forecast tooling, preferably with implementations.

We are offering

We offer you a challenging environment. You will work with colleagues with a passion for the job and who have a high standard for performance. You will be offered an excellent opportunity to develop yourself.

Furthermore we offer:

• The gross monthly salary (min. Eur. 6.793 - max. Eur. 9.704) is based on a 36-hour work week, including vacation pay and benefit budget. A 40-hour work week is also possible. Salary determination and salary level is based on the knowledge, experience and potential you bring.
• The Benefit Budget is 11% of your salary. The Benefit Budget allows you to acquire additional employment benefits. If you make no purchases or reservations in the Benefit Shop in a given month, you are paid one twelfth of your Benefit Budget that month.
• Five weeks of vacation per year. You have the option to purchase an additional four weeks per year.
• Personal development Budget of € 1,000 per year, which you can accumulate up to € 3,000.
• An annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands.
• An excellent pension scheme.

Waarom ABN AMRO?

• Bouwen aan de bank van de toekomst
• Een diverse en inclusieve cultuur
• Veel interne doorgroeimogelijkheden

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

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Contact

Wil je meer weten over deze vacature? Neem contact op met Okke Faber via okke.faber@nl.abnamro.com.