Senior Product Owner

Role Description

In this role, you will be responsible for building scalable and sustainable architecture, org strategy, solution design and serve as a technical and thought leader for SAP platform in the Finance domain including record-to-report and procure-to-pay functions.

You will create the overall design of our SAP implementation, including data architecture, feature roadmap, and integrations. 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.

Responsibilities

• Work with business partners on prioritization and proactively anticipate gaps and overlaps within the Finance portfolio.
• Provide optimized solutions based on business needs and technology capabilities
• Serve as a solution architect for the projects and provide best practices and strategic platform direction.
• Lead requirement gathering sessions with business team members in Record To Report(RTR) function
• Design & build products/solutions in SAP S4 HANA Finance (RAR, FICA, AP, GL & FA)
• Ensure quality and timely deployments across various SAP instances using DevOps model
• Provide solution design and implementation of SAP RTR solutions that drive scalability and efficiency.
• 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 cross-functional 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or in a related field
• 10 + years of experience in architecting and designing solutions using SAP Platform
• Experience with procurement and time and expense management tools as well as standard transaction flows.
• Deep understanding of the Finance areas – Revenue Recognition, FICA, AP, FP&A, General Ledger, Fixed Assets.
• Experience in SAP RAR ( Revenue Accounting & Reporting), specializing in design, configuration & integration with FI & SD
• Detail understanding of RTR, SD/FICO modules integration, IFRS 15 and Revenue Recognition process
• Experience integrating SAP with different applications such as Workday Adaptive, Workiva, SAP Multi Bank Connect(MBC) and various international banks
• Experience defining the architecture landscape, business capability mapping, identifying gaps between current and future states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will help achieve the business outcomes
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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