Product Owner – Regulatory Reporting & Financial Data

About the Role

We are seeking a highly analytical and execution-focused Product Owner – Regulatory Reporting & Financial Data to support critical regulatory reporting and financial data initiatives within a banking or financial services environment. This is not a strategic product management role. We are looking for a hands-on Product Owner who operates similar to a Business Data Analyst, partnering closely with Finance, Regulatory Reporting, and Technology teams to drive requirements refinement, source-to-target data mapping, backlog management, and data quality initiatives. The ideal candidate has deep experience working with financial and regulatory reporting data, understands how data moves throughout a financial institution, and can effectively bridge business and technical teams to ensure accurate and timely delivery of reporting solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead source-to-target mapping efforts for financial and regulatory reporting data across multiple data sources and platforms.
• Partner with Finance, Accounting, Regulatory Reporting, and Technology stakeholders to gather, refine, and prioritize business and data requirements.
• Translate business requirements into detailed mapping specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation.
• Analyze data, profile datasets, identify data quality issues, and investigate root causes of reporting discrepancies.
• Utilize SQL to query, validate, and analyze data for reporting and data quality purposes.
• Own and manage the product backlog, including story refinement, prioritization, and sprint planning activities.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and collaborate with delivery teams in a Scrum-based environment.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions to drive alignment across business and technology stakeholders.
• Communicate project progress, data dependencies, and implementation impacts to senior leadership and operational teams.
• Ensure regulatory reporting requirements are accurately reflected in data mappings and downstream reporting processes.

Required Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience as a Product Owner, Data Product Owner, or Business Data Analyst in an Agile environment, with a strong focus on execution, delivery, and requirements management rather than product strategy or roadmap ownership.
• Experience supporting Finance, Accounting, or Regulatory Reporting functions within a banking or financial services organization.
• Strong understanding of financial data elements and regulatory reporting data, including how data is sourced, transformed, validated, reconciled, and consumed.
• Proven experience leading source-to-target mapping initiatives across multiple systems, applications, and data platforms.
• Ability to profile data, perform data analysis, identify data quality issues, and investigate root causes of reporting discrepancies.
• Experience translating business requirements into detailed mapping specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation.
• Strong backlog management experience, including story creation, refinement, prioritization, and sprint planning activities.
• Solid understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, with experience operating within Scrum-based teams.
• Hands-on SQL skills with the ability to write queries for data validation, joins, filtering, aggregations, data quality analysis, reconciliations, and data investigations.
• Experience working with enterprise data warehouses or large-scale data environments and partnering closely with data engineering and technology teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to facilitate discussions and gain alignment across Finance, Regulatory Reporting, Technology, and senior leadership teams.
• Proven ability to lead requirements-gathering sessions, mapping workshops, and cross-functional discussions to drive successful delivery of regulatory reporting initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Product Owner certification (CSPO, PSPO, or similar).
• Experience with Axiom and/or Workiva.
• Snowflake Data Warehouse experience.
• Experience with Oracle Financials ecosystem, including: Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Financial Data Intelligence (FDI), and Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW).