BI Product Manager – (Finance, SAP Hana, Power BI, Insight, SNAP)

BI Product Manager – (Finance, SAP Hana, Power BI, Insight, SNAP)

Location – Sheffield (Hybrid)

Do you have at least 5 years of experience as Business Intelligence focused Product Manager?

Commercially minded with good business acumen alongside technical ability?

Experience with Power BI, SAP Hana, Insight, SNAP?

Legal Sector Experience? (Ideal but not essential)

The Role

My client, (A Leading International Law Firm) both have an urgent requirement to appoint an experienced Business Intelligence focused Product Manager to join their friendly and supportive Finance, BI, Data and Reporting team based at their prestigious offices in Sheffield on a hybrid basis.

The BI Product Manager role has responsibility over specific specialist area's that are served by the Finance BI, Data & Reporting team, and have ownership of specific areas of the overall finance BI, Data & reporting team's roadmap for delivery. These areas include Client Reporting, Profitability, Integrations, Overall UX, Billing & Cash data.

The Product Management team maintains individual product backlogs that contribute to the overall backlog for the Data & BI product, Insight.

The BI Product Managers work closely with the engineering function within the BI, Data & Reporting team, providing business requirements, defining data expectations, and guiding desired outcomes to translate the product roadmap into actionable user stories and deliverable solutions.

The role maintains and nurtures relationships with key members of the product’s user community and develops a strong understanding of the financial processes and business functions that underpin their requirements.

Tasks will include regular communication with key stakeholders to understand business requirements, help prioritise requirements, assist in the creation of prototypes to be presented to stakeholders, and analysis supporting the overall delivery of the BI, Data and Reporting team's roadmap. Expect involvement in training and communication of change and value delivered by the roadmap.

The product managers are key in driving the Finance Data and Reporting roadmap forward, and most importantly they are key in the delivery of new features on the Insight dashboards, and the Automation of Management reporting. They will play a key role in the upcoming US alignment project. They are the drivers to providing work to the engineering team to deliver against an ambitious roadmap which has proven delivery of value to the business over the last 4 years.

The BI Product Manager is responsible for their own stakeholders and product areas within the Finance BI, Data & Reporting team. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of the Firm’s data and insight capabilities, working within a team that is at the forefront of adopting Artificial Intelligence to solve real business challenges. The team is actively embedding AI into its own ways of working and delivering innovative AI-powered features within the Insight product, creating tangible value for users across the business.

The stakeholders include the Firm’s Executive team, fee earners, Partners, Finance teams, and other business support functions. Responsibilities include regular engagement with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements, support prioritisation activities, assist in the creation of prototypes for stakeholder review, and provide analysis to support the delivery of the BI, Data & Reporting team's roadmap.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Global metric design and generation, Management & Executive reporting, as well as opportunities to be involved in other areas of the business dealing with Client Reporting or Performance Reporting.
• Management and autonomy over own roadmap content and prioritisation representing the product managers area of responsibility – aligned to key stakeholders.
• Working with key stakeholders to ensure new features / reports match core business processes associated with financial metric calculation and application.
• Ensuring the application of solid accounting principles to the calculation and presentation of key financial metrics within the reporting process.
• Ensuring an effective story-based process for the description and prioritisation of user requirements such that they can be well understood and acted upon by the Engineering team, using Agile methodologies.
• Managing feedback & queries from the Business via the firms ticketing system – including the investigation to probable root causes.
• Support the BI Operations Manager with training activities – including one on one training with Partners / Fee earners / Secretaries or finance colleagues. As well as wider presentations to larger groups.
• Analysis of key information to enable the effective documentation of requirements, and presentation of stories to the engineering team can be provided.

Key Skills & Experience

• Demonstrate a passion for the creation and delivery of best-in-class reporting processes and products.
• An understanding of Finance processes within a large organisation, particularly a law firm, would be highly desirable. Experience of using Snap is desirable.
• An ability to access and interrogate data, to support basic analysis and report prototyping.
• Some awareness of the reporting and data manipulation capabilities available within the SAP HANA suite, including integration with other, third-party tools appropriate for BI Reporting, would be advantageous. A desire to learn is essential, prior knowledge is not.
• Some understanding and practical use of Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum.
• Excellent written and verbal skill for the communication of complex processes.

My clients both offer a very competitive salary, annual bonus, excellent benefits and flexible hybrid working within a friendly, professional and supportive team and there are excellent opportunities for further development within the businesses, globally.