About the job
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Manager - AR and Cash Application Product Owner to be located in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Thriving on a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our employees and committed to inclusion. Proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Do you seek big, complex, ambiguous problems? Are you passionate about having a meaningful impact on the experience, effectiveness, and efficiency of your colleagues through innovative technology solutions? Do you want to be a part of a 133-year-old startup?
This individual will be the ultimate Product owner of AR and Cash Application processes implementation into the companies Accounting systems and will work at the intersection of business & technology to define strategies that combine a deep understanding of business objectives, challenges, with technology solutions and extending them into development execution, value realization & ongoing product management.
In this role, you will own setting the strategic direction for finance technology products focused on architecting SAP Central Finance / S/4 HANA, and our migration to transactional processing capabilities in conjunction with our greenfield ERP Roadmap for Supply Chain, as the enterprise embarks on an ambitious transformational agenda. Additionally, in this role, you will own our Enterprise Performance management integration governance, enabling us to ensure that we optimize our greenfield integrated planning solutions across commercial, supply chain and finance.
Key Responsibilities
- As the platform lead and product owner of the AR and Cash Application, partner with Finance, IT, and project management to be responsible for the deployment across sectors. Build and prioritize the financial system portfolio, capturing the demand from the business.
- Leads Design and Delivery of SAP Finance solutions. This role requires a broad in-depth knowledge of Finance business processes and SAP FICO (Finance and Controlling) module, integration with SAP and Non-SAP Systems.
- Business Problem Definition: understanding and translating business problems faced by the finance function into a value case & comprehensive set of solutions spanning process, technology, data, governance & user experience supported by defined, baseline value realization key performance indicators
- External Insights: understanding external trends and insights related to finance process & technology, including macro level shifts in compliance regimes (e.g. BEPS, SAF-T, US Tax Reform) to provide foresight vital to advise strategies
- Solution Design: ensuring that product development efforts incorporate an approach that starts with experimentation to validate expected impact, includes human centered design, embraces agile principles, incorporates external insights, required end to end process optimizations, and compliance engagement
- Architecture: partnering with the finance architecture team to define the role each system plays within our landscape aligned with business capabilities
- Internal Partnerships: acting as the primary trusted advisor to senior finance & technology leaders across all lifecycles of product development starting with inception through to value realization & ongoing continuous improvement, and communication of progress against strategic objectives
- Product Management: partnering with product management teams to ensure roadmaps are oriented to deliver finance business & technology strategy, value creation objectives, and measurable key performance indicators
- External Partnerships: leading vendor relationships to influence development roadmaps & ensure that our needs will be met by our technology partners
- Team Leadership: direct a team of finance technology strategy professionals across multiple domains
Required:
- Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Degree
- 12 years of SAP implementation experience within FICO, S/4 HANA, SAP Central Finance
- Experience of Accounts Receivable business processes: Receivable Management, Cash Flow and Integration with Sales and Distribution
- Experience of SAP Treasury, Banking, Fund Management & sub-ledger accounting
- strong knowledge of Reporting and Interface design with other applications
- Integration expert for unifying the entire Order-2-Cash business process covering: Creation and maintenance of customer master records, Customer transaction processing (including invoices, credits, and payments) integrated with SD, MM modules, Debtor's management, including credit control.
- The ability to manage a team of professionals and external consultants
- 3+ years of people management experience
- Problem solving and process improvements skills
- Experience working in a matrix environment
- Key problem-solving skills in developing communication strategies and actions
- Requires high degree of independent judgment and decision making
- Master's Degree with focus on Computer Science or Computer Engineering or MBA
- Experience in Heath Care and Science Industry
- Experience working in Gxp environment
- Individual must be proficient in creating defects and test scripts using HPALM or JIRA.
- Standout colleague with good communication skills and be customer oriented, aiming at effective collaboration with internal and external partners
Up to 20% domestic and international travel required
location: NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey
job type: Permanent
salary: $160,000 - 200,000 per year
work hours: 9am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities
- As the platform lead and product owner of the AR and Cash Application, partner with Finance, IT, and project management to be responsible for the deployment across sectors. Build and prioritize the financial system portfolio, capturing the demand from the business.
- Leads Design and Delivery of SAP Finance solutions. This role requires a broad in-depth knowledge of Finance business processes and SAP FICO (Finance and Controlling) module, integration with SAP and Non-SAP Systems.
- Business Problem Definition: understanding and translating business problems faced by the finance function into a value case & comprehensive set of solutions spanning process, technology, data, governance & user experience supported by defined, baseline value realization key performance indicators
- External Insights: understanding external trends and insights related to finance process & technology, including macro level shifts in compliance regimes (e.g. BEPS, SAF-T, US Tax Reform) to provide foresight vital to advise strategies
- Solution Design: ensuring that product development efforts incorporate an approach that starts with experimentation to validate expected impact, includes human centered design, embraces agile principles, incorporates external insights, required end to end process optimizations, and compliance engagement
- Architecture: partnering with the finance architecture team to define the role each system plays within our landscape aligned with business capabilities
- Internal Partnerships: acting as the primary trusted advisor to senior finance & technology leaders across all lifecycles of product development starting with inception through to value realization & ongoing continuous improvement, and communication of progress against strategic objectives
- Product Management: partnering with product management teams to ensure roadmaps are oriented to deliver finance business & technology strategy, value creation objectives, and measurable key performance indicators
- External Partnerships: leading vendor relationships to influence development roadmaps & ensure that our needs will be met by our technology partners
- Team Leadership: direct a team of finance technology strategy professionals across multiple domains
qualifications:
- Experience level: Manager
- Minimum 10 years of experience
- Education: Bachelors (required)
skills:
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