About the position
Koch is hiring a Data Product Owner to safeguard and maximize the current and future value of Koch Finance Data Assets. We are looking for a contribution motivated individual with a strong technical acumen, creative problem-solving skills, and experience leading complex initiatives across multiple teams to help deliver valuable tax data products, partner with leaders to understand data needs and support the businesses data-driven initiatives. The DMET (Data Management, Enablement and Transformation) team is focused on developing a long-term sustainable capability utilizing data and technology to transform finance. This includes a diverse group with multiple teams focused on data platform technologies, specific data products and transformation with an emphasis on data security. Our strategy will empower the finance and tax organizations to create superior value while consuming fewer resources, unlocking analytical capabilities, mitigating risk, and meeting ever-changing regulatory requirements.
Responsibilities
- Safeguard and maximize the current and future value of Koch Finance Data Assets.
- Lead and promote data asset management initiatives.
- Own the Finance Data Products that align with the broader Koch data vision and strategies.
- Ensure quality data products that are easily reusable, readily available, easy to replicate or combine, highly transferable and high quality.
- Establish a sound security model and ensure access controls are in place and actively managed.
- Develop a data governance model that protects the data assets while allowing for growth and transformation.
- Collaborate with the Data Governance team to drive continuous improvement.
- Partner with the Data Delivery and Data Program teams to deliver valuable Finance Data Products.
- Understand data needs of Capability leaders and stakeholders, adapt to changing requirements, and drive cross-capability delivery.
- Partner with Tax Transformation groups to enable tax process transformation through the data product.
- Develop and manage team agile backlog and roadmap.
- Lead and mentor team members to focus on the right priorities that drive the highest value for product.
Requirements
- Experience in data delivery and analytics, technical, or business relevant function.
- Experience in product or project leadership.
- Experience building business knowledge through meaningful partnerships at the individual contributor and leadership levels.
- Experience in understanding and correcting data and process discrepancies, identifying anomalies, root cause analysis, identifying solution alternatives, and driving resolution.
- Experience communicating and presenting to all levels within an organization.
- Experience working in complex financial systems.
- Experience with prioritizing, managing and influencing multiple teams to align individual delivery components to a single organizational goal.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with global tax reporting or tax compliance.
- Experience using Azure Dev Ops for product or project management.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to create synergies/draw connections across multiple platforms/disparate systems to drive consistency and reuse in data.
- Demonstrate deep curiosity and willingness to trace gaps in metadata back to the originator to address and resolve issues proactively at the source.
- Experience in leadership or participating on Agile teams.
- Intermediate understanding of the data development life cycle and data management principles (ETL/ELT process, SDLC, metadata management, data quality, etc.).
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision insurance.
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
- Life insurance, ADD, disability.
- Retirement plan.
- Paid vacation/time off.
- Educational assistance.
- Infertility assistance.
- Paid parental leave.
- Adoption assistance.
