Technical Product Owner

About Chartered Accountants Ireland

Chartered Accountants Ireland is Ireland’s leading professional accountancy body, representing over 39,000 members in over 100 countries and educating 6,600 students. Its members provide leadership across both the public and private sector, bringing experience, trusted expertise, and strict standards to all aspects of their work. As the largest professional body on the island of Ireland, Chartered Accountants Ireland engages with several stakeholders including governments, policy makers, regulators, and business groups on key issues affecting the profession and the wider economy. Chartered Accountants Ireland supports members at every stage of their career from education to qualification to continuing professional development. 

Institute Values

The Institute seeks to ensure an environment based on its values of Innovation with Ambition, Collaboration for Impact, Speed and Simplicity, Trust, Inclusion, and For Tomorrow, For Good. Candidates should be able to demonstrate how these may apply to them in the role for which they are applying and how their previous experience is relevant to them.

Summary of Role

We are at the beginning of an exciting journey to introduce new applications that will better serve our students, members, firms, and other users. This initiative is part of a broader effort to modernize both user-facing processes and internal operations. The Product Owner role offers a unique opportunity to help shape the future while assisting the implementation of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform.

As part of a collaborative team of three Product Owners/Business Analysts, the successful candidate will take ownership of functional requirements and support non-functional requirements in partnership with the Solution Architect and Operations team. This includes working closely with suppliers and stakeholders across the organisation—such as Architects, QA, and Operations—to ensure the solution meets expectations and delivers value.

The Product Owner will continuously review solutions to identify synergies and enhance both user experience and internal workflows. A data-driven approach and focus on KPIs will guide prioritization and decision-making. While the primary focus will be on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, the role may also assist other areas such as Dynamics 365 CE or the website during implementation. Post-launch, the Product Owner will be responsible for ongoing improvements and adoption of new functionality within the Finance solution.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and facilitate workshops with key stakeholders to identify the business needs, key risks, dependencies etc.
• Analyse the requirements against the functionality of the platform and find the best way to meet the requirements.
• Work with the business to identify ongoing opportunities to deliver better customer experience or better ways of working in a structured manner.
• Gather and align with end-users the functional and non-functional requirements, aligning them towards industry’s best practice.
• Work with stakeholders and document detailed design and acceptance criteria for both functional and non-functional requirements and for project deliverables.
• Execute gap analysis against proposed technologies.
• Assume responsibility for planning requirements gathering and requirements management.
• Organise, review and/or release of the documentation when required.
• Assist the development teams by clarifying the requirements and design.
• Initiate communication inside and outside the team to ensure effective implementation of the proposed solution.

The candidate

Skills and Experience

• Experience in gathering requirements for a large-scale application replacement project.
• Experience working with financial applications MS Dynamics 365.
• F&O/Business Central or earlier versions of Dynamics are essential as well as good knowledge of functional opportunities and best practices in MS Dynamics 365.
• Experience working with MS Power Platform and CE.
• Experience in collaborative collaboration data design with customers and/or end-users.
• Experience in writing user stories and product backlog.
• Experience managing senior Finance stakeholders.
• Experience with Scrum and Agile and ideally the ability to demonstrate thought leadership and coaching in these new ways of working.

The successful candidate will have the following:

• Strong facilitation skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Effective communication and writing skills.
• Strong teamwork skills with a positive attitude.
• Strong user research skills and detail oriented.
• Flexible in new situations, enjoys a challenge and continuously learning.
• Ability to work independently and in an ambiguous environment.
• Experience in working in a hybrid environment.

Flexible work arrangements

The Institute is seeking and encourages applications from experienced candidates who may be looking for flexible work arrangements. If such arrangements are being sought please bring these to the attention of your interviewer.

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Chartered Accountants Ireland is an equal opportunities employer.

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Technical Product Owner

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