Job Title: Product Owner (Finance Applications) Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 per annum Car Allowance Benefits Location: Hybrid working, home & weekly trips to BCA Hook, Hampshire Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 40 hours Job Status: Permanent Who we are The Constellation Automotive Group is the largest vertically integrated digital car marketplace in Europe, combining the leading digital brands across the segments of Consumer to Business (C2B), Business to Business (B2B) and Business to Consumer (B2C). Across our digital platforms we exceed £20billion of Gross Merchandises Value (‘GMV’) on an annual basis. This includes market leading brands such as BCA, We Buy Any Car, cinch and Marshall. https://www.constellationautomotive.com The Constellation Technology Team provides a group-wide set of Technology Products and Services across the Constellation Automotive Group. We are a central function working across the following domains: Technology Operations, Cyber Security, Product, Engineering, Enterprise Applications, Logistics, Architecture and Portfolio; across the UK and Europe. Now, this is where you fit in…. The role of the Product Owner is to deliver continuous improvement and development of Finance applications, working alongside our Finance and Applications teams within the business. Key Responsibilities: Deliver Enterprise Application Product changes for Business Central. This can include eliciting and documenting business requirements, determining and justifying cost estimates and compiling business cases, designing, building and implementing changes. This role includes supervisory responsibilities for Finance Application Product Analysts (currently 2 members of staff) covering other Finance systems such as Access Dimensions, Wholesale Finance, Emburse Enterprise, Bottomline PTX, Sage, etc. Maintain good relationships with business stakeholders to identify/capture change/development needs and provide input to prioritising the delivery of these changes. Maintain good relationships with external technology partners, including developers to deliver system changes, aligning with business priorities and within acceptable timelines. Identify where there are gaps in existing systems and what work would be needed to deliver changes. When presented with solutions, ensure that due diligence of the proposal is completed and that appropriate challenges are made. Elicit, understand, and challenge business processes and, in conjunction with business stakeholders and Solution Architects, propose and agree modifications where appropriate to allow a more efficient/more performant/more secure/more resilient and feasible solution to be put in place. Build Product backlogs to summarise objectives, outline business case, scope, completion/acceptance criteria and other components of change items. Manage and maintain product backlogs from inception to delivery ensuring successful build, test and go-live whilst following established change processes within Constellation Group. Define technical requirements and design in consultation with testing, internal infrastructure, InfoSec, service delivery and other teams. Key Skills: Strong technical Finance product knowledge and domain expertise in Business Central Online High level understanding of transactional finance processes in a sales-oriented business. Knowledge of software development processes and procedures and iterative delivery. Understanding of integrations, APIs and Web Services. Successful experience of technology projects with focus on Cloud / SAAS solutions Logical mind-set – when presented with a problem you will be able to logically gather the facts and put a full, holistic picture together of the challenge and the opportunity. Where you can relate the problem to the Finance application products and propose solutions.. Self-management - you will possess advanced emotional intelligence and self-awareness. You will display an astute understanding of your own strengths and weaknesses and not hesitate to reach out for help in areas where you know you need support. You will have a thirst for learning and a desire to continuously improve. Stakeholder support - You will develop and maintain close relationships with key individuals throughout IT and the Business, Building and inspiring teams – You will be skilled in understanding requirements and pain points from potentially disparate groups of people and will be able to unite and understand the impact and options from an enterprise applications point of view to provide guidance and suggest solutions. Influencing skills and emotional intelligence will be critical in this regard. You will also be an excellent team player when acting as a contributor. You will also have coaching skills for your team as act as a sounding board for peers. Be facilitative – must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to the teams. Attitude of transparency – have the desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about delivery and grow business trust. We’ve put everything in place to ensure you thrive. Competitive salaries, strong core values and an excellent benefits package that includes: Company Pension Scheme An Employee Assistance Programme Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave Access to trained Mental Health First Aiders And so much more… As the automotive industry changes, we’re changing with it - putting our people in the front seat for the journey. We’re the number one in what we do for a reason and that’s because of the people we have on our teams. If you want to be a part of a business like this; unrivalled, exciting and appreciative of the work you do, join BCA. INDLP