The Product Owner is responsible for defining the vision and roadmap, leading the prioritization of initiatives, and overseeing the solution architecture for Information Technology (IT) applications supporting the Procure to Pay, Accounting, Treasury and Compliance functions. The Product Owner designs the experience of aligning desired business outcomes to a roadmap of IT initiatives and communicating the plan and the achievement of those outcomes to business and IT management.

This role has a matrixed job structure. A Team Member in a matrixed job has multiple reporting relationships. Reporting lines are often based on functional and business groups in which the job supports, with functional department typically being the primary. In this role, the primary reporting relationship is to the Chief Financial Officer, and secondly to the Chief Information Technology Officer. Identified managers set explicit expectations and have input into this role’s job performance.

Primary Duties, Responsibilities, and Tasks:

• Works with senior business stakeholders to assess the maturity, criticality, and state of business capabilities in Procure to Pay, Accounting, Treasury, and Compliance.
• Assesses the use of existing and emerging technologies in supporting the area's objectives.
• Develops a long-term business application roadmap that addresses end-to-end business capability needs with input from industry best practices.
• Leads the requirements definition and solution design for the major initiatives in the roadmap.
• Oversees the design of all system changes in the area, ensuring we implement scalable, future-proof solutions.
• Works in partnership with the business to create business cases and define Rentun On Investment for major initiatives.
• Leads/participates in vendor and application evaluations to select the appropriate technology to support business needs.
• Collaborates with IT delivery teams by providing architectural guidance to ensure successful implementations.
• Collaborates with the Financial Planning and Analysis team in designing and developing insights capability for Finance.
• Engages with system and process experts to perform thorough impact analysis to all connected systems with the big picture in mind.
• Prepares executive level presentations and proposals as well as detailed requirement and design documentation.
• Proactively seeks out new system features and capabilities to address Finance challenges.
• Works with key applications/technology included in scope: NetSuite Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
• Upholds a work environment that promotes teamwork, partnership, recognition, mutual respect, and collaboration, while role modeling the company values, behaviors, and culture of One.Team.Chumash.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• High School diploma or GED certificate.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent work experience.
• Five years of specific product management experience required.
• Advanced computer proficiency utilizing Microsoft applications, email. and Internet.
• Ability to utilize deep understanding of Finance processes and systems.
• Must apply for, receive, and maintain a Gaming License from the Tribal Gaming Agency.
• Native American hiring preference applies.

Skills, Abilities, and Competencies:

• Entrepreneurship/Intrapreneurship Recognizing (market or business) opportunities for current/new products/services and finance, considering them in a businesslike manner (profit focus, cost savings, delivery timing) and taking action; taking risks and achieving a business advantage.
• Data Gathering and Analytics Collecting, consolidating, and using relevant information; recognizing important information; tracing possible causes of problems, and searching for practical data/solutions.
• Oral Communication Shaping and expressing ideas and information in an effective manner.
• Written Communication Expressing ideas and opinions clearly in properly structured, well organized, and grammatically correct reports or documents; utilizing language and terminology that is understandable for the reader.
• Achievement Orientation Being persistent and showing perseverance on achieving concrete and tangible results out of personal responsibility; getting optimum results from situations; being ready to take action and show tenacity in case of obstacles or resistance.
• Planning and Organizing Setting priorities and defining actions, time, and resources needed to achieve predefined goals.
• Technical Expertise and Usage Acquiring and applying technical and functional knowledge in a technological area.

Physical Requirements of the Position:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by the Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Clear vision (close, distant, peripheral, and depth perception) is needed for navigating office and casino environments; reading and reviewing reports and policies; operating data processing equipment; and other essential job functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member is regularly required to talk and hear.
• The Team Member is frequently required to sit and use hands to manipulate, handle, or feel.
• The Team Member is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell.
• The Team Member must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.

Working Conditions:

• While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member is occasionally exposed to tobacco smoke, moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.
• The Team Member is usually subject to inside environmental conditions, which provide protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The Team Member is occasionally subject to outside environmental conditions and to wet and/or humid conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Other Information:

• This job description does not list all the duties of the job. You may be instructed by management to perform other tasks or functions.
• You will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description.