Lead Product Owner (Financial Planning & Analytics Automation)

X5 Group is a Russian retail trading company, managing the grocery retail chains "Pyaterochka", "Perckrestok", and "Chizhik", as well as the digital services "Vprok.ru Perckrestok", 5Post, "Mnogo Lososya" and the media platform Food.ru.

X5 Tech is an IT company and the primary digital partner for the retail chains and businesses of X5 Group. A team of over 5000 specialists develops solutions that help 372 thousand group employees work with maximum technological comfort and allow millions of customers to buy fresh products quickly and conveniently.

We are currently looking for a Lead Product Owner for the IBP platform at X5 - the largest initiative for developing end-to-end technological processes for Integrated Business Planning (IBP). This initiative has no peers in the Russian market in terms of scale. It is a cross-functional and cross-format initiative: we are engaged in creating end-to-end processes and unified plans not only within supply chains but also in commerce, finance, operations, marketing, and other functions. In 2026, the initiative consolidated at the X5 level, significantly expanded its scope, and now includes all key streams of the target IBP.

Responsibilities:

• Forming the product vision for the stream, ensuring end-to-end automation of P&L calculations without gaps between operational and financial units
• Automating management cycles - digitalizing budgeting, treasury, and management accounting processes, eliminating manual operations in reporting consolidation and profitability metric calculation
• Driver-based modeling - implementing the driver-based planning methodology, linking operational metrics (demand, prices, costs) with financial results; developing multi-scenario analysis functionality (base case, upside, downside) to assess the impact of initiatives on EBITDA
• Managing profitability initiatives - creating a digital tracker for initiatives with transparent accounting of deadlines, responsible parties, and financial effects broken down by P&L, ensuring the linkage of strategic goals with budgetary limits
• Consolidation and methodology - building a unified data model for consolidating management reporting across all legal entities and segments; standardizing rules for calculating P&L items and automating adjustments (eliminations, netting)
• Agile product development - working as a Product Owner/requirements expert in a cross-functional team (IT + finance), decomposing business requirements into a backlog, prioritizing features based on criteria of reducing time-to-report and improving forecast accuracy

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience and knowledge in product management/OR experience as an FP&A Director, designing or implementing EPM systems (SAP BPC, SAP IBP, Anaplan, Oracle Hyperion, Board, OneStream, Optimacros) OR comprehensive solutions based on Power BI/Excel with planning modules
• Deep understanding of corporate financial management processes: budgeting (OPEX/CAPEX)
• Hands-on experience in building driver-based models linking operational plans (volumes, mix, logistics) with financial results (revenue, cost, EBITDA)
• Expertise in data architecture for financial systems: understanding ETL processes, data marts, hierarchies, and attributes for consolidation; experience integrating EPM with ERP (SAP, 1C, Oracle) and BI tools
• Financial modeling skills: building complex calculation models for P&L, balance sheet, CFS, experience with scenario analysis and sensitivity of metrics to drivers
• Ability to translate complex financial methodologies into technical requirements for IT teams and vice versa
• Stakeholder management skills: interaction with the CFO, controllers, business units to align planning methodologies
• Systematic approach to reducing operational complexity: focus on automating routine operations and increasing the speed of closing management accounting

In return, we offer:

• Formal employment with official (white) salary, performance-based bonuses
• Convenient office near "Dobryninskaya" metro station / convenient office with free parking near "Volgogradsky Prospekt" metro station / MCD "Kalitniki"
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunity to work in a hybrid format
• Comprehensive voluntary health insurance (VHI) package (including coverage abroad and dentistry), life and health insurance
• Opportunity to study and develop at the company's expense: external training and seminars on professional topics, participation in the country's largest conferences, programs for developing digital and management skills (Digital Academy, Team Lead School), online and offline masterclasses, corporate university "X5 Polka", mentor school, and much more
• Motivation programs for speakers and authors: internal Speak Up School, Write Up, achievements and points for presentations, preparing speakers for the country's largest conferences, an author community on Habr, opportunity to share experience with communities of internal and external experts
• Knowledge exchange through communities: 12 technical communities from java to devops
• Vibrant corporate life with numerous events, contests, and opportunities for creative realization: regular internal meetups, demo days, open mic events, IT Specialist Day, volunteer programs, corporate entrepreneurship X5 Idea Challenge
• Care for employee well-being: 7 sports communities (running, football, volleyball, basketball, hockey, skiing, triathlon), annual Health Week
• Discounts in the X5 business ecosystem ("Pyaterochka", "Perckrestok", "Mnogo Lososya", "Perckrestok Vprok")
• Prime-zone privilege program (discounts on goods and services and special offers from partner companies)
• Financial assistance to employees facing difficult life situations.