Product Owner - Tax Centre of Excellence

Job description

AutoReq ID

135176BR

Job Title

Product Owner - Tax Centre of Excellence

Country

United Kingdom

Location

Glasgow

Function

Tax

Service Line

Tax Central

Service Line Information

KPMG Overview

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax & Pensions, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges.

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.

Job Description

The Role


The Product Owner will work as part of our Tax Centre of Excellence Technology team. The role will be to support our tax delivery experts in designing technology to increase our process efficiency. The PO will serve the product development team as the customer proxy and will review and contribute to the product vision and roadmap maintained by the wider product management team. You will work with our team of tax experts to ensure all business and software requirements are gathered, organised and understood. In addition you will be the line manager for a team of analysts responsible for the running of our Robotics, Data Analytics and Document Production platforms.

Roles and Responsibilities

- Communicate and meet with internal and external stakeholders to translate the business vision and needs of stakeholders into actionable user stories.
- Work with project managers and technical leads to determine scope and priorities for product development cycles
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure that they understand the vision for the product and adhere to delivery timelines
- Running steering/working group sessions with stakeholders
- Analysis of business benefits realisation
- Explain complex processes to the tax teams in a simple, easy to understand way
- Manage development budget and manage budget requests for future development pipeline
- Translate complex user experiences into software requirements
- Be responsible for Document Production and Data Analytics platform and oversee implementation of specific business use cases by analyst team.

The Person


Experience and Background

- Passionate about delivering excellent products
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Requirements engineering and documentation
- Experience working on multiple scrum projects
- Knowledge of agile methodologies
- Experience using QlikSense/QlikView or similar business intelligence tools (desirable)
- Experience using SQL (desirable)
- Experience managing .Net web application development
- Experience implementing technology for a shared services centre.
- Strong academic track record in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or similar, relevant course (desirable)
- At least 5 years in a product development environment, including 2-3 years as a Product Owner or Business Analyst with state-of-the-art software systems

Our Deal

If the chance to work with interesting clients and innovative technology wasn’t rewarding enough, we’ll motivate you in other ways too. At KPMG you can expect real responsibilities and opportunities to grow professionally.

‘Our Deal’ sets out all the different ways you’ll be rewarded at KPMG. Among other things you can benefit from honest conversations about your career as well as a range of other rewards. In all these ways and more, we have created an environment that can bring out the best in you.

Flexible Working

While some of our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, we are supportive where possible of helping you to achieve a balance between your home and work demands.

We are happy to discuss individual requirements and our range of flexible working arrangements could be of interest. Furthermore, as part of the recruitment process, we can put you in touch with people who work flexibly so you can understand from them what our culture is like.

Applying with a Disability

KPMG are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity employer and we seek to attract and retain the best people from the widest possible talent pool. As a member of the Business Disability Forum we're committed to ensuring that you are treated fairly throughout our Recruitment Process. Should you be successful after the initial application stage, please discuss any reasonable adjustments that you may require, with your recruitment contact.

KPMG's commitment to diversity

KPMG consistently features in the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for, which has been recognised with a special achievement award to mark our 10 years in the Top 25. We are proud of the value we place on individuality; we want you to bring your full self to work and truly maximise your potential. We believe that your individuality helps us to deliver the best results for our clients. Diversity of background, diversity of experience, diversity of perspective - that's the KPMG difference. But, don't take our word for it, find out more about diversity at KPMG.

Returning to work after a break

At KPMG, we appreciate that returning to work after an extended career break can be daunting. We understand that those with experience who have taken a career break have a wealth of experience and knowledge to offer our organisation, which helps us to achieve our business goals. We will support you to refresh your skills, develop your confidence and provide a supportive network across the firm to help you best integrate into the working environment. This role welcomes applications for individuals who have been out of work for 18 months or more and who have previous relevant experience.

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