Financial Product Manager

Product Manager

Duration: 1+ year contract

Location: Des Moines, IA (Hybrid / 100% Remote)

Notes from manager:

What we need in this PM Mid Level

Financial and or accounting GL background helpful

Detailed oriented

Maybe lead for our area depending on background, but either way will have help from PM.

An ability to dig into the details deeply, document, communicate well, and collaborate in a space with lots of unknowns.

Partners with a Product Manager, Senior Product Manager, Program Manager, Directors, Delivery Managers, Technical contacts and project group

Develops understanding of product strategy.

Accountable for understanding and defining key business outcomes and requirements

In partnership with PM or Senior PM, identifies opportunities/problems to solve and articulates hypotheses.

Is accountable for success of product delivery in collaboration with technology and non-technology partners.

In partnership with other members of a team, work to remove impediments and manage dependencies that the team may face

Ensures the product team has the business, customer, user, and stakeholder context required to solve problems effectively and efficiently.

Collaborates with team to break down work in a manner which frequently releases valuable product changes.

Typically plays the role of product owner for SCRUM teams, collaborating on story creation and refinement, definition and success criteria, prioritization, and accepts work as done.

Participate in team/agile ceremonies (effective structure & routines).

Partner with team members to deliver value with quality.

Communicates product releases to stakeholders & partners.

About the Project

Financial Journey Foundation (FJF) It is an enterprise-wide, cross-business initiative to upgrade our financial accounting systems and lay a stronger foundation for future growth. At its core, FJF replaces our obsolete PeopleSoft system with Oracle’s cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)—modernizing how finance work is done across the company. FJF will impact other business systems, processes and data management that informs decision-making, and the skills needed in supporting roles.

1.We're Replacing Aging Systems with Modern Tools- The FJF is transitioning from legacy systems like PeopleSoft to a cloud-based ERP, streamlining processes and reducing manual work to better support global operations.

2. FJF Will Enable More Business Agility- Expect improved access to consistent data, better reporting tools, and automation that frees up time for higher-value work and enabling greater business agility to quicky adapt to business changes or disruptions.

WSRS had kickoff on 11/4/25

Contractor will work with another PM in our Platform space who came from Finance and has more background regarding this project.

Data conversion: will begin late February 2026 and will continue iteratively through early 4Q26. Resources will be needed for validation and to resolve variances.

System Integration Testing (SIT): March 9, 2026 - April 3, 2026. For systems sending information to the Oracle solution (inbound), the target is for all integrations to be updated and ready for testing. Testing for systems receiving data from the Oracle solution (outbound) will follow shortly after.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT): mid-July through mid-August.

Day 1 MVP for going live 1/1/2027.

Qualifications:

2+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education.

Prior experience in a product environment and exposure to the Product Manager role.

Experience with strategic thinking and decision making in a professional context.

Experience with managing multiple workloads and/or competing priorities in a professional context.

Experience with stakeholder and relationship management in a professional context.

Demonstrated experience leading, influencing, and negotiating in a professional team environment.

Demonstrated experience leveraging diverse perspectives and using data to inform action.

1+ year working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with engineering teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

Product Strategy:

Partners with a Product Manager or Senior Product Manager to understand the product strategy for a lower complexity / sensitivity product.

Develops understanding of product strategy in context of the enterprise and business strategies.

Responsible for executing against the strategy as part of a product team(s) 5%

Product Discovery:

Accountable for understanding and defining key business outcomes and requirements for their product.

In partnership with PM or Senior PM, identifies opportunities/problems to solve and articulates hypotheses.

Leads the product team (design, engineering, and various business roles) in ideating and running experiments.

Executes experiments as part of a product team (in partnership with design, engineering, and various business roles).

Assesses value of experiments, collaborates to draw out insights, and shares learnings with key partners and stakeholders. Based on learnings, determines which work should be prioritized into the product.

Accountable, with Product Manager or Senior Product Manager, for improving or maintaining an effective parallel discovery and delivery model.

Product Delivery:

Is accountable for success of product delivery in collaboration with technology and non-technology partners.

In partnership with other members of a team, work to remove impediments and manage dependencies that the team may face in the pursuit of value creation.

Ensures the product team has the business, customer, user, and stakeholder context required to solve problems effectively and efficiently.

Collaborates with team to break down work in a manner which frequently releases valuable product changes.

Typically plays the role of product owner for SCRUM teams, collaborating on story creation and refinement, definition and success criteria, prioritization, and accepts work as done.

Participate in team/agile ceremonies (effective structure & routines).

Partner with team members to deliver value with quality.

Communicates product releases to stakeholders & partners.

Product Assessment:

Consults with Product Manager or Sr. Product Manager to ensure every goal-aligned unit of value created by the team(s) is measurable and can show progress towards product goals.

Monitors and communicates product health, impact of product releases, and progress against product goals.

Responsible for assessment practices of a team(s).

Responsible and accountable for meeting product outcomes and if necessary, making enhancements to the go to market strategy, product, etc. to meet them. 10%

Stakeholder Management and Communication:

Communicates discovery and delivery priorities, results of experiments, quantifiable progress to goals, and delivery health of their product with stakeholders.

Communicates effectively as part of the product management team supporting a broader product family or portfolio.

Identifies opportunities to improve the product management practice within their sphere of responsibility; and works as part of the product management team to continuously improve.