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Amplify Education, a K–12 education technology leader serving 18+ million students and teachers across all 50 states and six continents, seeks a Product Owner to partner with Accounting and FP&A teams. You will own the Record to Report, Revenue, and FP&A product lifecycles, defining product vision and strategy while driving roadmap initiatives that translate complex financial workflows and compliance requirements into intuitive product features.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with Controllers, Revenue Management, and FP&A teams to define and prioritize product vision and strategy for Revenue finance functions, including General Ledger, Revenue Recognition (ASC 606), Financial Audits, Month-End Close, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
- Optimize FP&A budgeting software (Pigment) to support strategic financial analysis and forecasting during budgeting cycles.
- Own the Record to Report value chain by managing and prioritizing the product roadmap for NetSuite, BlackLine, and Pigment to align with enterprise goals.
- Act as primary Subject Matter Expert bridging technical accounting (ASC 606, month-end close, audit readiness) with system architecture, ensuring NetSuite Advanced Revenue Management (ARM), BlackLine, Zip, and Pigment comply with evolving accounting standards.
- Collaborate with business analysts to convert business requirements into clearly articulated epics and user stories following Agile frameworks.
- Work closely with development and system administration teams to develop process and technical solutions, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality standards.
- Measure and analyze product performance and organizational feedback to identify process improvement areas and inform future development.
- Build and manage product documentation, organizational change management, training plans, and supporting materials.
- Ensure technology stack aligns with company strategy and long-term goals.
- Partner with cross-functional Product Owners to manage Amplify's financial ecosystem, ensuring upstream operational data (Billing, AR) flows correctly into Revenue and General Ledger reporting.
- Plan, facilitate, and monitor User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for implementations, improvements, and system upgrades.
- Partner across IT, Security, and Audit to define, document, monitor, and improve General IT Controls (GITC) governance supporting regulatory and internal compliance.
- Collaborate with other Business Systems Product Owners to identify changes to upstream or downstream processes impacting financial transactions and reporting.
- Lead product delivery within agile/Scrum teams by auditing and refining the backlog to prioritize high-impact automation against enhancements.
Requirements:
- 5–7+ years of experience as a Product Owner or similar role
- Experience with NetSuite ARM (Advanced Revenue Management)
- Experience with ASC 606 for accounting and finance processes, particularly revenue recognition, journal entries, Record to Report and Close cycles, and consolidations
- Experience with at least one full SaaS-based ERP implementation
- Experience with Pigment for FP&A solutions (or Anaplan/Workday Adaptive Planning)
- Experience with Month-End Closing tools, specifically BlackLine
- Experience developing, testing, and deploying customizations, custom objects, system configurations, and new functionality based on evolving business needs and solving integration problems (e.g., Salesforce, Concur, Workday, data warehouses)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing clear product requirements and user stories
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to use data for decision-making and prioritization
- Minimum 3–4 years of experience in agile development environments
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and manage multiple business initiatives simultaneously
- Strong project management experience (Agile or Waterfall) with ability to identify tasks and estimate work accurately
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technologies, Finance, Accounting, or related field
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience with associated financial applications (Concur, BlackLine or other closing software, Pigment budgeting software)
- Solid understanding of general ledger, revenue recognition (physical and digital products and subscriptions), planning, payroll, and reporting
- Familiarity with process areas including Order to Cash, Record to Report, Budgeting & Forecasting
- Strong NetSuite ERP Financials solution implementation and/or administration experience
- Experience working with large datasets using Excel, Looker, Alteryx, or related tools
