Product Manager (Accounting SME)

What you'll do

• Provide expert knowledge and insights in accounting practices.
• Proficiency in accounting software and technology solutions, including experience with system conversions and integrations.
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills, with the ability to guide stakeholders through complex public policy implementation and business processes.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.
• Assist in the development and review of program documentation, training content, and manuals.
• Collaborate with various teams from legal, public policy, business, and operations to ensure accuracy and relevance of accounting processes and systems.
• Identify potential areas for process improvement and suggest changes to enhance efficiency.
• Conduct thorough research to stay updated on changes in accounting standards and regulations.
• Review and approve content developed by others for accuracy and completeness.
• Answer specific queries and provide guidance based on expert accounting and software development knowledge.
• Lead and manage the integration of accounting software solutions to improve process efficiency and data accuracy.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to software implementation and integration.
• Collaborate with IT teams to ensure smooth and effective audit logging, system integrations and system monitoring.
• Provide training and support to team members on new software applications and tools.
• Define the vision, goals, and measures of success for the products and services you manage.
• Work with designers, business analysts, and technical leads to discover and synthesize market research, user needs, business requirements, and technical approaches.
• Define the direction, scope, and priority of projects, from high-level initiatives to specific features, user stories, and business metrics.
• Proactively socialize, iterate on, and build buy-in for product initiatives with the team, government partners, and other contractors.
• Collaborate with the project management team to prioritize roadmaps and inbound units of work.
• Represent Nava's outcome-centric and user-centric approach in discovery meetings with agencies and contractors.
• Understand and communicate the needs of end users and population segments we serve and government partners we work with.
• Measure product progress toward business goals or user needs and translate data insights into action.
• Make tactical decisions to improve the design, define requirements, and generate stakeholder buy-in for our desired path forward.

Required skills

• At least three (3) years of experience as a Product Manager of a cross-functional team
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in accounting.
• Strong understanding of financial measurement tools and accounting principles.
• Experience with budgeting, financial reporting, and compliance with state government regulations.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Experience running and/or shipping consumer web applications
• Ability to generate very strong product plans and build buy-in across the team, our government partners, and other contractors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical, user experience, and project management trade-offs; enthusiastic communicator
• Strong bias towards action; ability to step up into team gaps and ambiguous situations to structure the team’s action plan
• Ability to execute with incomplete information; great product instincts and an ability to create order from divergent needs
• Ability to define a product objective and logically reverse engineer the path and communications to achieve the objective
• Ability to identify market trends and shifts that will affect product direction and update plans based on future expectations
• An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and positive mindset