At a Glance
- Tasks: Shape the future of data and insights by managing product areas within a dynamic team.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking firm embracing AI to tackle real business challenges.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, inclusive culture, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Enjoy a supportive environment with excellent career development opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a tangible impact on innovative AI-powered features that benefit users across the business.
- Qualifications: Passion for reporting processes, understanding of finance, and eagerness to learn.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 65000 £ per year.
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 Product Management team maintains individual product backlogs that contribute to the overall backlog for the Data & BI product, Insight, which is managed by the Senior BI Product Manager. 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.
- Provide analysis to support the delivery of the BI, Data & Reporting team's roadmap.
- 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.
- Maintain and nurture relationships with key members of the product’s user community and develop a strong understanding of the financial processes and business functions that underpin their requirements.
Main 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 manager's 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 firm's 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.
About You:
- 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 skills for the communication of complex processes.
About Us:
We are committed to being accessible and accommodating any reasonable adjustments needed throughout the recruitment process to ensure an inclusive experience for all. If you need any support or adjustments, please let us know. Where local legislation permits, we will conduct relevant pre-engagement screening checks prior to your first day.
Product Manager in Sheffield employer: DLA Piper
DLA Piper is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic and inclusive work culture that fosters collaboration across its global teams. With a strong commitment to employee growth, you will have access to continuous professional development opportunities while working in the vibrant city of London, known for its rich legal landscape and multicultural environment. Join us to make a meaningful impact as you navigate complex legal challenges in a supportive and innovative setting.
