Product Owner

BDO; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

BDO is the leading mid-tier professional services provider globally. In 2024, our core service lines (Audit & Assurance, Tax, Advisory, and Business Services & Outsourcing) generated annual revenues of over US$15 billion. With a worldwide community of over 119k professionals operating in 166 countries and territories, we’re dedicated to helping our clients navigate complex financial and strategic challenges, aligned to our core purpose ‘People helping people.’

A great place to work

Building a thriving global team is an essential pillar of our bold new vision Global solutions. Driven to be the best. - so it’s no surprise that our offices around the world are regularly recognised with awards and accolades. We’re a people-powered business, with a diverse, dynamic and inclusive international team who are committed to excellence, innovation, and integrity.

Make a difference

We believe that businesses have an economic imperative and an ethical responsibility to contribute towards a more sustainable and equitable world. In 2021, as part of the Net Zero Financial Service Providers Alliance, we pledged to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 or sooner. In addition, we’re #BDOproud to support thousands of colleagues around the globe who regularly participate in activities to ‘give back’ to the communities in which we operate.

Professional growth

Our collaborative, international environment fosters professional growth and development, to ensure that all our people thrive. We’re committed to transferring and sharing resources, knowledge, skills, and experience across our organisation, and our Global Mobility Programme provides the gateway to a whole world of opportunities.

Position: Product Owner

The purpose of the Product Owner is to work with our firms to ensure they successfully increase the value of their digital development efforts. This is achieved by defining, designing and prioritising digital product features of the programs/services (APT, IAM and Global Portal) provided by BDO Global IT.

The Product Owner translates the product vision into the product roadmap and weighs the different requirements coming from different stakeholders to realise the highest business value. Product Owners lead the Product Teams and are accountable for developing, managing, and supporting their Product(s).

The Product Owner is responsible for:

• Managing the relationship with their Business Owner.
• Working with Business Owner on prioritisation of the backlog.
• Setting the roadmap for their Product to determine the inclusion of feature releases in each version.
• Managing the Team to support their Product (you make it, you own it, you fix it).
• Delivering any upgrades or enhancements required for their Product.
• Facilitating any required user acceptance of upgrades to minimise business disruption.
• Communicating and articulating the benefits of any new features and how they can help BDO deliver on its strategic goals.
• Assisting in the adoption of new features to empower the users of their Product.
• Maintaining the quality of their Product.

Each Product Owner will be accountable for recommending the tools their Team will require to successfully support and develop their Product(s). These tools will be reviewed in the context of an agreed and approved set of tools to ensure consistency in process, capability, and delivery.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology or a related discipline (e.g. University degree), entry-level vendor-aligned certification (e.g. Scrum alliance/Scrum org.) required
• At least 5 years’ experience as a Product Owner in a complex, professional global environment
• Data driven and demonstrated experience using big data, analysis and research to produce product decisions
• Experience developing, analysing and designing digital products and software
• Strong stakeholder management skills at all levels with excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Strong understanding of Agile/ITIL methodologies
• Proactive self-starter capable of managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrate expertise in product lifecycle, UX/CX design and analysis understanding
• Knowledge of Microsoft Operating Systems (e.g. Windows 7/8/10)
• Knowledge of MS Office productivity, communication & collaboration technologies (e.g. MS Office/Skype etc.)
• Effectively demonstrate teamwork skills, problem solving skills, initiative and integrity
• Excellent English language proficiency and good interpersonal communication skills.

About us

BDO is an international network of independent public accounting, tax and advisory firms ('the BDO network'), which performs professional services under the name of BDO (‘the BDO Member Firms’). BDO is the brand name for the BDO network and for each of the BDO Member Firms.

Service provision within the BDO network is coordinated by Brussels Worldwide Services BV (BWS), a limited liability company incorporated in Belgium with VAT/BTW number BE 0820.820.829, RPR Brussels. Each of BDO International Limited (the governing entity of the BDO network), BWS and BDO Member Firms is a separate legal entity and has no liability for another such entity's acts or omissions. Nothing in the arrangements or rules of the BDO network shall constitute or imply an agency relationship or a partnership between BDO International Limited, BWS and/or the member firms of the BDO network.

More information on BDO can be found on www.bdo.global.

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries
• Accounting, Financial Services, and Business Consulting and Services