Product Owner - Financial Data & Reporting

Product Owner - Finance Data & Reporting Contract Remote-Friendly (Anywhere in the U.S.) No Sponsorship About The Doyle Group The Doyle Group is a proven partner for Placement and Consulting services, headquartered in Denver, CO. Our core mission is to forge genuine partnerships with our clients who seek strategic talent solutions and to assist highly skilled candidates looking for their next career opportunity. With over 30 years of industry experience, our consultative approach allows us to provide a higher level of guidance and insight, empowering our clients to secure top IT talent that fits seamlessly into their team and culture. We look forward to collaborating to help you achieve your career goals. Position Summary Our client, an organization operating in a highly regulated insurance environment, is looking for a Product Owner to support a newly formed finance-focused product domain. This role sits at the center of mission-critical financial systems — policyholder payments and dividends, collections, projections, audit reporting, and reconciliations — and is a contract opportunity with remote flexibility anywhere in the United States. This Product Owner operates as a true PO/BA hybrid. The work is heavily backend, data, and process oriented, with significantly less emphasis on UI or customer-facing product design. Success here depends less on backlog theory and more on hands-on execution: personally writing clear, unambiguous user stories, running efficient agile ceremonies, and staying engaged in technical discussions with a development team that includes both long-tenured staff and newer contractors. You'll partner closely with finance stakeholders to document currently undocumented, legacy financial logic, support an active migration off legacy platforms onto modern ones (including a parallel reporting-tool migration), and help the business build internal ownership in an area where no dedicated subject matter expert exists today. The team values speed balanced with quality — favoring simple, working solutions that can be iterated on over exhaustive, fully-polished approaches that slow momentum. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship. Responsibilities Own and prioritize the backlog for a newly established finance domain, aligning work to business goals, operational risk, and platform modernization effortsPersonally write high-quality, unambiguous user stories and acceptance criteria in GitLab, ensuring they meet Definition of Ready before entering a sprintRun efficient backlog refinement sessions, ensuring stories are understood by the team and sliced correctlyFacilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and reviews; help unblock dependencies and keep the team focused on committed goalsEstablish trust with the development team; respect the team's technical expertise while owning the "what" and "why"Shield the team from scope creep, shifting priorities, and external noise during active sprintsPartner with finance stakeholders, technical teams, and business partners to gather requirements and translate complex business processes into epics, features, and user storiesDrive discovery and documentation of current-state financial workflows, system logic, dependencies, and upstream/downstream data impactsUncover and map business processes that are not yet well documented, including legacy logic embedded in long-standing systemsFacilitate the transition of financial processes and reporting workflows from legacy environments to modern platformsSupport data cleanup and data quality initiatives by identifying process gaps, inconsistencies, and root causes of reporting inaccuraciesAct as the first line of defense for the development team's day-to-day questions to prevent unnecessary context-switching and delaysBuild relationships with external domain teams to evaluate, score, and prioritize data issues with material business impactCreate and maintain documentation that enables stronger business ownership and long-term knowledge transferCommunicate roadmap progress in terms of how it improves financial systems reliability, stability, and year-end financial outcomes MINIMUM EXPERIENCE 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or a blended PO/BA professional in an agile environmentDirect, hands-on ownership of the full ticket lifecycle — personally authoring user stories and acceptance criteria rather than relying on others to write themProven experience working on backend, data-intensive, or process-heavy initiatives rather than primarily UI-focused product workA track record of proactive, visible engagement in meetings and technical discussions — comfortable staying present and engaged rather than working heads-down and disconnectedDemonstrated ability to balance thoroughness with delivery speed, favoring simple, working solutions that can be iterated on over exhaustive analysisComfortable operating with ambiguous ownership boundaries across a mixed team of tenured staff and newer contractors, and proactive about seeking clarificationStrong ability to gather requirements, document workflows, and translate complex business needs into clear technical work itemsWorking knowledge of core financial processes and systems, such as:Cash receipts and financial reconciliationsFinancial and regulatory reportingPayment processing integrations (e.g., lockbox, ACH, card networks, third-party payment gateways)Cloud data warehouse environments (e.g., BigQuery or similar)Experience supporting agile ceremonies such as backlog grooming, sprint planning, and story refinementBachelor's degree or equivalent professional experienceMust be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the futureADDITIONAL PLUS Experience in insurance, fintech, or another highly regulated environmentExposure to dividend processing, unclaimed-property/escheatment compliance, or 1099-related financial workflowsExperience with reporting platforms or analytics environments such as MicroStrategy, Looker, or similar toolsExposure to Salesforce or other platform modernization effortsAbility to run reports, interpret reporting logic, or partner closely with reporting and analytics teamsExposure to AI-assisted tooling (e.g., Copilot) used to interrogate legacy code and understand current-state logicExperience with legacy system transformation, data cleanup, or migration initiatives SALARY / WAGE RANGE $55.00–$70.00/hour Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, location, and experience, and may fall outside of the range shown. The Doyle Group offers a competitive rewards package, which includes a 401(k), healthcare coverage, and other benefits.