Senior Product Owner (Finance Technology/ERP)

In this role, you will be responsible for building scalable and sustainable architecture, org strategy, solution design and serve as a Manager and thought leader for the Finance Technology area with emphasis on Tax/Reporting/ERP technologies and supporting Products.

You will work closely with stakeholders in the Finance area including Tax, AP, AR and GL workstreams. You will collaborate with cross functional teams and lead the development efforts to create technical solutions based on a deep understanding of business requirements. You will play a critical role in defining the technical strategy and shaping the future of our Finance applications.

What You'll do:

• Work with business partners on prioritization and proactively anticipate gaps and overlaps within the Tax, AP, AR and GL functions
• Provide optimized solutions based on business needs and technology capabilities
• Serve as a Manager or independently driven individual contributor for the projects and provide best practices and strategic platform direction
• Lead requirement gathering sessions with business team members in multiple Finance functions such as Cash, AP, AR, Tax and other Boundary/Third Party applications.
• Ensured compliance with financial regulations and standards, including IFRS and GAAP, through effective SAP solutions. Focused on ensuring compliance adherence with SAP GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance).
• Implement automated payment processing solutions and optimize vendor payment workflows
• Design and implement robust GL posting logic and account determination strategies
• Own the Tax functionality technical workstream and the Reporting workstream within the Enterprise Technology group.
• Stay abreast of technology trends and industry best practices and influence others to seek best-in-class solutions/technology to resolve business challenges
• Lead an agile team and effectively resolve issues/conflicts while owning the quality of the system developed
• Establish trusted relationships with crossfunctional teams, vendors, and implementation partners and drive key design decisions
• Collaborate with the team to ensure that they follow best practices when architecting, programming or documenting solutions
• Coordinate activities for month-end close procedures, including AP clearing and GL reconciliation

What you bring:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or in a related field
• 6+ years of experience in architecting and designing solutions using SAP Platform
• Deep understanding of Accounts Payable processes, including vendor master data management, invoice processing, payment runs, and bank integration
• Expert knowledge of General Ledger functions including chart of accounts, posting schemas, and financial statement preparation
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA Finance, specifically in Tax and GL are preferred but not mandatory.
• Strong understanding of internal controls and compliance requirements for financial processes
• Experience with procurement and payment tools as well as standard transaction flows
• Experience supporting projects with full understanding of activities such as system conversions, enhancements, and support
• Experience defining the architecture landscape, business capability mapping, identifying gaps between current and future states
• Experience managing vendor relationships and ability to partner with them to conduct business and technical discovery
• Experience working and presenting proposals to executives in a clear and compelling way.
• Experience working with third party products such as High Radius, Productiv, Blackline/FloQast will be highly preferred.
• Experience with Tax Engine products such as Vertex, Thomson Reuters (OneSource) among others will be highly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP Certification 
• Experience in High Tech Industry & SaaS Transformation
• CPA / MBA

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