Deputy Product Owner (Finance)

Deputy Product Owner (Finance) | 9770 | Permanent Contract | 37 hours per week | £50,166 to £54,277 per annum (Scale L) | County Hall, Norwich

 We are looking for an experienced UK based Deputy Product Owner for ERP Oracle Financials and Procurement involves supporting the Product Owner in providing and executing the product roadmap for an organisation's finance and procurement systems within the Oracle ERP suite, as well as providing defect management support to live operational services and users.

Norfolk County Council has a broad self-service implementation following the "adopt not adapt" principle supporting up to 24K employees with multiple legal entities and payrolls that also encompasses Oracle HCM and EPM cloud applications.

Key responsibilities and required skills include:

Core Responsibilities

• Roadmap Support: Assisting in the ownership and evolution of the product roadmap for core Oracle Finance and Procurement systems, ensuring alignment with wider business goals.
• Business Analysis: Gathering, documenting, and translating complex business requirements from stakeholders into functional designs and user stories for the development teams.
• Defect & Backlog Management: Managing and prioritizing the product backlog, ensuring a clear and ready stream of work for development teams.
• System Optimization & Support: Acting as a key escalation point for system issues, analysing recurring problems, and working with IT to implement sustainable solutions and continuous improvements.
• Stakeholder Communication: Facilitating clear communication between technical teams, project managers, and finance/procurement departments, managing change across the multi-vendor, multi-system environment.
• Compliance and Risk Management: Ensuring the stability, scalability, and compliance of finance applications with regulatory requirements.
• Testing and Adoption: Supporting user acceptance testing (UAT), assisting with training, and monitoring user adoption of new functionalities and system updates. 
• Line Management:  Line management responsibility for an operational team responsible for processing integrations with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and user access requests for multiple financial systems.

 

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience with Oracle ERP: Significant experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP (Financials and Procurement modules).
• Functional Knowledge: Strong understanding of core finance and procurement business processes, such as Procure-to-Pay (P2P), General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Expenses, and Accounts Receivable
• Agile Methodology: Experience working in an agile product development environment is essential.
• Technical Familiarity: Exposure to Oracle Cloud architecture, integrations, and RICEW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Extensions, Workflows) concepts is beneficial.
• Analytical Skills: Strong business analysis, documentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills are critical for success in this role. 

 

To arrange an informal discussion or for further details on the role, please contact David Bryden at: david.bryden@norfolk.gov.uk 

 

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary

• Generous holiday entitlement 

• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service

• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependent on your job role and business need. 

• Financial benefits such as:

  • ‘Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.   

  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers

  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)

  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work

  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions

  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes

  • Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)

  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

 

We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together, make the most of our workspaces, enjoy a healthy work-life balance, and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work, with hybrid working a key feature for many roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class, enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.

Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification  to help you demonstrate how you meet the criteria. You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? See and apply for all internal and external vacancies via myOracle using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.

We would like to make you aware that priority consideration for this post may be given to current employees who are at risk due to restructure within the organisation or are in a redeployment position.  

 

Redeployment closing date: 06 February 2026 23:59

All other applicants closing date: 13 February 2026 23:59

We have miles of beautiful coastline and our unique Broads, thriving market towns and a city with a proud cultural heritage.  Our economy is growing and driven by innovation in a number of sectors, including energy and food.  We also have ambitious plans for new housing and a building programme for schools across Norfolk.  Our county a great place to live, work and visit, and is an excellent environment for businesses to start, grow and innovate.
We are the main local authority for Norfolk providing services countywide to more than 850,000 Norfolk residents. We take the lead in critical policy areas, working with 84 elected Members responsible for the strategic local government services in the county.

We provide a high quality service through involving people who use our services to shape and comment on them and by promoting efficiency and innovation.

We work in partnership with local businesses, voluntary organisations and other local authorities such as District and Parish Councils to provide the people of Norfolk with excellent services.