Product Owner - Cost Recovery
Can you translate complex financial processes into intuitive features that deliver accuracy, insight, and real customer value?
About Us:
At YAVICA, people are at the heart of everything we do. Founded in 2017 by a group of industry experts and tech enthusiasts, we have grown into a diverse and talented team from across the globe.
Spanning Asia, Europe, and North America, we combine our unique perspectives and skills with a shared mission: to provide the best end-to-end business solution for real estate visionaries. Our solutions are embedded in Microsoft Dynamics 365, leveraging its power to deliver innovative, scalable, and efficient tools for the real estate industry.
What makes YAVICA different? It’s our people. Here, every voice matters, and we support each other in achieving great things. We’re passionate about the real estate industry and the technology that fuels it, and we’re excited about the future as we continue to grow together.
About the role:
As the Product Owner for the Cost Recovery features of our YAVICA ERP product, you will be responsible for gathering and prioritising product requirements, ensuring alignment with business goals, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver a high-quality software solution. Cost recovery – the practice of recovering property operating costs such as maintenance and utilities from tenants – is a core function of property management and a complex, demanding area of our product.
The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of financial concepts such as reconciliation, an analytical mindset, and be comfortable working with large datasets and complicated calculations.
In this role, your key responsibilities are to:
Work closely with the Product Manager to understand the product vision, customer requirements, and feature priorities
Maintain the product backlog, ensuring all features are captured, clearly written, and reflect current priorities and statuses
Conceptualise and produce functional designs that meet customer needs, including diagrams, mock-ups, and documents
Engage with customers and other stakeholders to ensure designs meet requirements; capture feedback, and keep them informed
Stay on top of latest Microsoft features, evaluate and make recommendations where appropriate
Work closely with other Product Owners and the Head of Product Ownership to align features across teams; to ensure deliverables meet standards; to obtain peer review and endorsement on solution designs
Collaborate with technical architects to ensure technical and functional designs are aligned
Collaborate with developers to clarify acceptance criteria, answer questions, and make decisions during feature implementation
Be accountable for product quality, working with Junior Product Owner and testing resources to define acceptance criteria, test scenarios, and testcases for automated and manual testing
Perform acceptance testing of delivered features
Participate in defect triage, validation, resolution and testing
Ensure documentation and training materials accurately reflect features and functionality of the solution
You might be a great fit if you have:
A qualification in a relevant field (Computer Science, Accounting, Business, etc.)
Domain knowledge in Real Estate or Property Management processes or software.
Communication skills: excellent written and verbal communication, to articulate functional designs, engage with stakeholders, and align team members on deliverables; clearly convey functional designs and acceptance criteria.
UI/UX skills: familiarity with design standards, usability, user experience principles, and user-centric design.
Customer understanding: understanding business processes, roles, and the underlying “why” of customer needs.
Analytical skills: analysing business processes; identifying solutions that satisfy a range of use cases; analysing solution options for suitability; identifying minimum viable product; researching and evaluating tools and approaches.
Technical skills: sufficient experience in software development to engage effectively with technical teams on design and decisions.
Time management: strong organisational skills, ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines, and help delivery to stay on track.
Collaboration and teamwork: ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders for successful delivery
Do you share our core values?
We believe that our values define who we are and how we work. If these resonate with you, we’d love to have you join us:
Empathy
People are the backbone of our business. We foster a healthy and supportive culture internally as well as in our customer and partner relationships.
Integrity
We do the right thing — even when no one is watching. We are admired and respected for our commitment to follow through and to do what’s right, not just what’s easy.
Consistency
As a global company, it’s important to us that all stakeholders experience consistency in everything we do and represent. We take pride in being dependable.
Transparency
We are committed to openness in all situations — even when we fail. We believe in clear communication delivered in a timely manner and take responsibility for our actions.
Respect
We demonstrate respect in all our interactions. We approach challenges and opportunities with positivity and seek to resolve matters in a constructive and meaningful way.
What we offer:
At YAVICA, we care deeply about creating an environment where people thrive, both personally and professionally. Here’s what you can look forward to as part of our team:
Work-life harmony: We offer flexibility to help you balance your work and personal life in a way that works best for you.
Hybrid working: Whether you’re collaborating in the office or focusing from home, our hybrid work model empowers you to do your best work, wherever you are.
Collaborative culture: No micromanagement here. We trust our team members and value everyone’s input. Your ideas and contributions matter.
Growth opportunities: We’re invested in your development. Enjoy opportunities for training, skill-building, and career progression as YAVICA continues to grow.
The tools to succeed: You’ll receive all the equipment you need to excel - from hardware to software, we set you up for success.
Time to recharge: Paid time off isn’t just a perk; it’s essential. Take the time you need to rest, explore, and come back refreshed.
Well-being matters: Your health is important to us. Our private health subscription ensures you have the coverage you need to feel your best.
We celebrate individuality and diversity, committed to fostering a workplace where everyone is valued, regardless of background, identity, or ability. Join us in creating something extraordinary together.
If this sounds like a role for you, apply today.
If you have additional questions, reach out to career@yavica.com.
- Department
- Product
- Role
- Product Owner
- Locations
- Romania
- Remote status
- Hybrid
Romania
A unique career - Join us
About YAVICA
We’re more than 200 passionate members of the YAVICA team spread across offices worldwide from Asia to Europe to North America.
Our organisation consists of multiple nationalities and age variety which forms a dynamic team filled with great competencies and personalities, but all passionate about the real estate industry and the technology that fuels it.