Senior Product Owner

Overview

We are designing the grid of the future! 

The Senior Product Owner  – Unit4 is responsible for supporting, improving, and optimizing the company’s Unit4 platform. This role serves as a bridge between Finance, business operations, IT, vendors, and the Business Applications configuration team to ensure Unit4 continues to support critical business processes, reporting needs, controls, and operational efficiency. 

This position will work closely with Finance and business stakeholders to understand process needs, translate those needs into system requirements, guide configuration decisions, support testing and issue resolution, and help maintain a prioritized enhancement backlog. The role is ideal for someone with strong finance/business process knowledge, ERP experience, analytical thinking, and the ability to partner with both functional and technical teams. 

Responsibilities

How you can make an impact:

• Serve as a senior functional and business systems analyst for Unit4 ERP, supporting post-go-live stabilization, ongoing enhancements, process improvements, and operational support. 
• Partner closely with Finance, Accounting, Project Accounting, Billing, Operations, and other business teams to understand business needs and translate them into clear system requirements. 
• Work with the Business Applications configuration team to evaluate, design, configure, test, and deploy ERP changes. 
• Help maintain and prioritize the Unit4 enhancement backlog, balancing business value, operational urgency, compliance needs, and team capacity. 
• Support ERP-related business processes, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, project accounting, procurement, time entry, approvals, reporting, and financial controls. 
• Lead requirements gathering sessions, process reviews, fit/gap discussions, and solution design conversations with business stakeholders and system owners. 
• Document business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, test plans, support procedures, and configuration decisions. 

 

Applications Supported 

This role will primarily focus on Unit4 ERP and related finance/business application processes. The role may also support connected systems and processes involving CRM, HRIS, project management, integration, reporting, banking, procurement, time entry, and workflow platforms. 

Examples of related platforms may include Unit4, Salesforce, UKG, Workato, Snowflake, Power BI, Jira, Monday.com, banking platforms, expense systems, and other enterprise business applications. 

 

 

Qualifications

Bring your passion, here's what’s needed:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience. 
• 10 to 15+ years of experience in business systems analysis, ERP support, finance systems, business applications, accounting operations, or related roles. 
• Experience supporting ERP or finance-related systems in a business or IT environment. 
• Strong understanding of finance and accounting business processes, such as GL, AP, AR, billing, procurement, project accounting, time entry, approvals, reporting, and financial close. 
• Ability to translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, process flows, functional specifications, test plans, and configuration guidance. 
• Experience supporting system enhancements, production issues, testing, documentation, and change management. 
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills. 
• Ability to work effectively with Finance, business stakeholders, IT teams, vendors, and implementation partners. 
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain system concepts to non-technical users and business process needs to technical teams. 
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities. 
• Experience supporting business users in a post-go-live or production support environment. 

 

Qualifications 

• Hands-on experience with Unit4 ERP (required) 
• Experience with ERP implementations, post-go-live stabilization, system optimization, or finance transformation projects. 
• Experience working as a product owner, business process owner, finance systems analyst, or senior business analyst. 
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or similar tools for backlog, ticket, defect, and enhancement management.
• Experience with integrations, reporting, data validation, security roles, approval workflows, and ERP configuration.
• Familiarity with SaaS application administration, access management, audit controls, and IT change management processes. 
• Experience in a professional services, engineering, consulting, project-based, or multi-entity/multi-country business environment.
• Experience mentoring junior analysts or helping business users understand system capabilities and process impacts. 

 

Success Profile 

A successful Senior Business Systems Analyst – Unit4 ERP is a strong business partner who understands finance processes, thinks systematically, communicates clearly, and can translate business needs into practical ERP solutions. This person is comfortable working across Finance, IT, vendors, and application teams to solve problems, improve processes, and help the business get more value from Unit4.

 

Lead the Change!

Be a part of an innovative team shaping the grid of the future through advanced energy intelligence.  For more than half a century, Electric Power Engineers (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe, providing consulting expertise and energy intelligence software solutions for complex engineering and grid modeling challenges. As leaders in the renewables space, we are focused on building a modern, secure, and resilient grid.   Join us in making an impact on the communities we serve and the environment in which we live. Together we can transform the future of energy.  

 

How we support you:

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision with 100% premium coverage for you
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• MyShare Employee Ownership Program
• Work with industry leaders
• 401K, up to a 4% match (100% vested from day 1)

 

 

Location: This position will be remote US

Travel:  Occasional travel may be needed (10% or less)

 

EPE is an equal opportunity/AA/Disability/Veteran employer. The EEO is the Law poster, and its supplement are available using the following links: EEOC is the Law Poster

 

 

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