Finance Automation Product Manager

Finance at Primark

What’s a career at Primark all about? The positive impact you’re making, the experiences you’re having and the people you’re with. You’re our inspiration. Embrace what sets you apart, own your career and develop in ways you never expected. Leave your mark. And do it your way.

What You’ll Get

People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best.Let’s talk lifestyle: Healthcare, pension, and potential bonus. 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more. Because Primark is all about tailoring to you, we offer Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.

What You’ll Do as 

Finance Automation Product Manager

The Finance Automation Development Manager will be responsible for the management of a team who design, build, and implement automation solutions using best-in-class software development, artificial intelligence, robotic, and analytics tools. This is a key role within the Finance Transformation team with an opportunity to influence Finance strategy and deliver a strategic evolution of Primark’s finance technology solutions to improve the finance user experience.In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:

• Ensure the team deliver measurable value to the customer using Agile methodologies.
• Set, monitor, and deliver stretch targets aligned to the overall Finance Transformation strategy.
• Coach and develop team members’ performance, offering feedback and demonstrating the desired skills and expected work ethic.
• Develop and implement automation solutions to increase efficiency and streamline business processes
• Working closely with Finance leadership, set a deliverable strategic vision for which Finance processes can be scaled for growth using automation solutions
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify areas for automation and propose innovative solutions to meet business needs
• Influence senior stakeholders and Directors across the business particularly in Finance and Technology.
• Analyse automation candidates, establish their feasibility, priority and accurately estimate development effort
• Develop and maintain project documentation, including design specifications and test plans.
• Understand the risks, assumptions, and dependencies associated with the processes and the development.
• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos.
• Contribute and assist your Finance customers to create user acceptance tests (UAT) and Hypercare/Post Live Monitoring scenarios, identifying all the potential scenarios, the process exceptions, and their expected outcomes
• Support your stakeholders across Finance throughout the UAT and Hypercare/Post Live monitoring rollout phases.
• Ensure all automations are built in compliance with Primark’s internal control / security / audit requirements
• Act as a central point of knowledge and control for business processes, communicating with the Finance Teams to answer any queries that arise during the development and testing of an automated solution

What You’ll Bring

Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:

• 5-7 years’ experience designing automated process solutions (preferably using Automation Anywhere, Alteryx, MS Power Platform, Python, and Tableau / PowerBI).
• 3+ years’ experience managing a team of developers / product owners / BAs.
• 3+ years’ experience of Scrum methodology and Agile development practices.
• 2+ years’ experience managing external resources in an onshore / offshore model
• Experience in low code / orchestration application development would be beneficial
• Experience / interest in developing generative AI solutions or prototypes would be beneficial, in particular using MS Copilot
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or SQL beneficial
• Finance background and/or a knowledge of industry-leading ERPs (Oracle Financials etc.) would be an advantage.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Detail-oriented and organized.
• Knowledge of data analytics and visualization.
• Good inter-personal skills, communicating well with process SMEs, business process owners, and other members of the Finance Transformation team.
• Team management skills, including time management, decision making, delegation, prioritisation and emotional intelligence.
• A self-starter who delivers high quality work and can adapt to challenges, either individually or as part of a team.
• Ability to understand a business process from an idea and to conceptualize it as an automated solution.
• Understanding of low code and object-oriented programming.
• Understanding of formal change control and defect management disciplines.
• Experience in monitoring, reporting, and auditing.

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