Product Manager from Orangepeople
Glendale, CA 91201
About the Job
We use the Intellectual Property Management (IPM) system to manage the revenue accounting function for the global licensing contracts. The Product Manager Revenue Accounting Solutions should have a Finance or Accounting background to leverage during engagement with Controllership and Finance business partners. This individual will engage with Controllership, Revenue Accounting, and Finance teams from each Line of Business. The Product Manager needs to have a global perspective, looking across all regions when developing solutions to meet the needs of the organization. The Product Manager will ensure IT processes are repeatable, recommending smart approaches to gather requirements and deliver projects while providing business value. The Product Manager will identify and assess potential "forward-thinking" solutions for both technical and business feasibility.
The Product Manager will focus on 5 key areas of responsibility: Business Engagement, Project Delivery, Project Management, Quality Assurance, and Production Support while interacting with on and offshore development resources, vendors, professional service providers, and global business partners.
Responsibilities:
- Business Engagement
- Follow established demand management and governance processes to engage global business partners on requirements gathering and request prioritization.
- Develop business analysis deliverables, including but not limited to, workflows and process models, detailed business requirements, use cases, business rules, release notes, change management documentation, project approval requests, etc.
- Conduct reviews and obtain consensus on requirements with global business users as well as with internal application teams.
- Project Delivery
- Partner with the project delivery team to assess technical feasibility and obtain estimates for backlog items.
- Review design documents and obtain regional consensus and user approvals.
- Manage blockers and impediments to the release plan.
- Identify and mitigate project risks.
- Demonstrate knowledge and mastery of Agile project methodology and change management principles.
- Project Management
- Develop and maintain project plans to track milestones and detailed tasks and drive the implementation of projects.
- Write and communicate project status including, but not limited to weekly project status reports.
- Manage resource allocations across projects.
- Quality Assurance
- Oversee planning, organization, coordination, and execution of quality assurance activities.
- Create test strategy, and test scenarios, and produce and execute test scripts for new applications and enhancements.
- Conduct functional, integration, and user acceptance testing for new applications and enhancements to existing applications.
- Ensure a stable and predictable operating environment for the user community, which includes proper problem identification, timely escalation and resolution, and thorough testing of software changes.
- Production Support
- Lead analysis efforts to resolve day-to-day production issues which are escalated from Level 1/Level 2 Support Teams.
Functional responsibilities:
- Demonstrate strong working knowledge of accounting, finance, and IT standards.
- Demonstrates an advanced level of knowledge of the concepts, capabilities, and integration of relational databases and packaged software.
- Assists in the management of lower-level team member performance by providing leadership and direction, setting clear expectations, and communicating feedback regularly.
Basic Qualifications:
- 8+ years in business systems analysis with at least 5 years of experience with large-scale and complex systems.
- Understanding of the Licensing and Consumer Products industry with demonstrated domain experience in Revenue Accounting, Finance, and Contract Management Systems including, but not limited to contract processes and practices, licensee royalty statement submission processes, and royalty and revenue transaction processing.
- Experience with highly integrated accounting applications, including interfaces to SAP, forecasting, data warehouses, master data management, and product master is desirable.
- Knowledge of KPIs and terms to support reporting for Revenue Accounting, Contract Management, Legal, and Category Management business partners.
- Experience with MicroStrategy reporting or equivalent reporting system.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and client engagement skills.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to lead cross-team projects.
- 5+ years of Project Management experience on complex-level projects is desirable.
- Scrum Master and Agile certification are preferred.
- Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Project, Visio, Google Docs, SharePoint, and Jira.
Required Education:
- BA in Comp Sci, IS, Eng, Finance, Accounting, etc.
Preferred Education:
- MBA or other advanced degree.
Benefits:
- 401(k).
- Dental Insurance.
- Health insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity, equality, inclusion, and respect for people.
- The salary will be determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant education, qualifications, experience, technical skills, and business needs.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Participate in OrangePeople monthly team meetings, and participate in team-building efforts.
- Contribute to OrangePeople technical discussions, peer reviews, etc.
- Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base.
- Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested.
About us:
OrangePeople is an Enterprise Architecture and Project Management solutions company. Our most valuable asset is our people: dynamic, creative thinkers, who are passionate about doing quality work. As a member of the OrangePeople team, you will have access to industry-leading consulting practices, strategies & and technologies, innovative training & and education. An ideal Orange Person is a technology leader with a proven track record of technical achievements and a strong process/methodology orientation.
