Product Owner, Concur​
About this position
Within Accor Tech, the product owner is responsible for the full life cycle of the expenses, request, invoice and travel tool, CONCUR from a financial solution standpoint. This includes the full life cycle of the application, run and build - whether these are handled in-house or outsourced.
The product owner is bridging the gap between business needs and technical functionalities​
Responsibilities
RUN
• Maintain core solution, ensuring they meet internal control standards and compliance requirements.​
• Backlog​
• Oversee hosting and manage functional and technical third-party providers ​
• Manage third-party contracts, support and licenses linked to the software strategy​
• Improved and further refined, priorities reassessed, and the backlog must be kept current and up to date.​
• Ensure the Security and Compliance (Privacy Policy, GDPR) of the platform.​
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the team.​
• Perform a weekly reporting for head of finance community​
BUILD
• Roadmap aligned with Internal Control, Finance and businesses, and ensure the execution in line with the application ​
• Lead the planning, budget, execution, and successful delivery of complex projects.​
• Collaborate with business process owners and other stakeholders to ensure ongoing alignment with strategy during execution.​
• Maintain a hands-on approach to software architecture, design, and coding.​
• Ensure and supervise the product development lifecycle, encompassing requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance aligned with the editor.​
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in technology, integrating them into the design and development of new systems and features.​
• Define roadmap to ensure scalability, steady level of performance and sustainability of the solution
Requirements
Educational background
• Business school graduated ​
• Proven track record of maintaining a (set of) application(s) around travel and expenses processes (performance, security, functional, availability) and internal control processes ​
• Complete knowledge of IT processes (incident, problem and change management)​
• Several experiences in managing application teams.​
• Knowledge of Service Now
Competencies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Delivery-focused person
• Fluent in English
• Ability to communicate (written / verbally) very clearly
• Strong Knowledge of SAP CONCUR Expenses, Request, Invoice and Travel modules
• Strong travel module skills