Product Owner, Finance Revenue Systems - Pandora

Company: Sirius XM
Location: Oakland
Posted on: June 8, 2021

Job Description:

SiriusXM and Pandora have joined together to create the leading audio entertainment company in the U.S. Together, we are uniquely positioned to lead a new era of audio entertainment by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio experiences to millions of listeners -- in the car, at home and on the go. Our talent, content, technology and innovation continue to be at the forefront, and we want you to be a part of it! Check out our current openings below and at www.siriusxm.com/careers.

Position Summary:

We have a great position available for an outstanding Product Owner as a part of Enterprise Systems group. In this Techno-functional role, you will be mainly working with finance team and responsible for day-2-day support, maintaining, and enhancing our back-end Java and PostgreSQL technologies that drive our automated revenue recognition processes. We use Zuora Revpro for Ad Revenue recognition and a custom-built application for Subscription Revenue recognition. Exciting opportunity to also learn and bring in your analysis skills at forefront with analysis of key back office application like Ad revenue recognition, ERP, CRM and helping business streamline their business process through it.

As a member of our highly motivated and collaborative team, you will be working with business stakeholders, project managers, and developers, and should be dedicated to excellence & have a strong sense of personal responsibility. Strong written & verbal communication skills are must.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Understand how Zuora REVPRO packaged application and custom Subscription Revenue System used for two different revenue recognition processes.
• Partner with business stakeholders and capture new enhancement requests to integrate new payment aggregators, tweaking calculations, new reports, etc. and turn into functional documentation.
• Develop and implement functional requirement captured
• As a part of day-2-day support - Own, analyze, debug and resolve any data issues in the revenue recognition process, work with integration team and business stakeholders for resolution.
• Support Finance Month-end close processes, help reconciliation needs
• Explain technical issues to a variety of audiences such as developers, business stakeholders.
• Supervise Enterprise Software Development and assigns programming tasks/projects to Software Development consultant if any
• Confirms program operation by conducting tests: modifying program sequence and/or codes.
• Writing and maintaining user documentation.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA, BS or equivalent degree required.
• Minimum 6 plus years of relevant IT experience

Requirements and General Skills:

• Self-Motivated to learn new applications & technology, adapting to changes, taking responsibility in a fast pace organization
• Interpersonal skills and ability to interact and work with staff at all levels.
• Excellent problem solving, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on projects.
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

Technical Skills:

• Knowledge of how financial transactions are performed in transactional system & finance acumen is MUST.
• 6+ years of demonstrated expertise in Java applications is a must; Experience using Java, J2EE(5.0), Servlets 2.5/3.0, JSP 2.1/2.2, JSF, EJB 2.0, JDBC, JNDI, HTML5, DHTML, XML & JavaScript
• 3+ years working with RDBMS systems, preferably PostgreSQL or Oracle, with demonstrated SQL skill. Candidate should have high confidence & solid work experience in all operational database activities (creating and understanding ERDs, changing schemas, tuning performance, etc.)
• Experience in deployment and administration of J2EE Application Servers and Containers, e.g. Tomcat, Spring, etc.
• 3+ years of experience working confidently in Unix / Linux environments
• Experience with and understanding of build automation tools such as Maven and Jenkins, and their role within the SDLC
• Coding and debugging against Java APIs. Contributes, and has open source examples available for review on Git, GitHub, Butbucket, etc.
• Experience with unit testing automation technologies such as JUnit, Mockito, DBUnit, etc.
• Ability to quickly build POCs / prototypes / wireframes to assist in designing high-level product concepts and capabilities
• Core analytical skills related to understanding and analyzing business use cases
• Comfortable working with Change Management and Release Management processes.
• Having .net experience Big data experience with Hive / Hadoop and HDFS is a plus
• Any prior experience with any financial system like Oracle ERP, Zuora REVPRO is plus.

More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://jobs.jobvite.com/siriusxm#benefits

Our goal at SiriusXM+Pandora is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism and cooperation. SiriusXM+Pandora is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the Company in its sole discretion without notice.

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