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The Director, IT Product Management role will lead a team of Product Managers and Product Analysts in Salesforce Business Technology focused on Financial close and process optimization across financial applications ( Planning /Forecasting , Budgeting ,Accounting) system to system integration capabilities. This is a people and product leadership role. The role is primarily responsible for business stakeholder engagement, portfolio planning, roadmaps, influencing the balance of scope-budget-timelines, strategic planning, staffing, and agile-based delivery outcomes.
In office expectations (Dallas, TX, Indianapolis, IN or Atlanta, GA) are 10 days/a quarter to support customers and/or collaborate with their teams. This is not a remote opportunity.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and manage a team of outstanding individuals providing product management and analysis for groundbreaking enterprise projects and capability improvements.
- Drive the technical strategy and cross-functional delivery approach across Finance processes ( Plan to Perform , Record to Report)
- Experience with Business Applications that help and lead Finance deliverables (i.e. Planning/forecasting, budget, Accounting, etc.) like Netsuite, Workday, Oracle or SAP
- Proficient in how applications share data and communicate, knowledgeable of Data Management practices and Reporting Strategies
- Partner closely with "Shared Service" teams to define and deliver objectives around Architecture, Infrastructure, Data management and Information Security
- Develop and facilitate timely decision-making across a broad network of stakeholders, delivery partners, and operational teams.
- Intimate knowledge of business policies, processes, and programs with discernment of the different personas for each
- Represent and lead diverse delivery functions in program/project core team and executive steering committee meetings.
- Accountability for team integrity, product excellence, decision making, delivery estimates and roadmaps, career development, client communications, and program outcomes
- Invest in the success of every member of the team, providing opportunities for personal development
- Collaborate with vendors and industry consultants to continuously learn and find opportunities to advance our strategy and operating model for supporting our business partners.
- Maintain and lead awareness of industry standard processes and relevant technologies.
Required Skills / Experience
- 10+ years technology delivery experience with product, architecture, engineering, or operations
- 5+ years in product management
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or related experience
- Experience with enterprise SaaS products and Data concepts as well as using IPaaS/SaaS cloud for deployment of cloud solutions at scale
- Experience in Finance domain - P2P (Plan to Perform), R2R (Record to Report), S2P (Source to Pay), SOX, EPM (Enterprise Performance Management)
- Experience with enabling operational/external reporting solutions at scale
- Prior experience handling technology in an "operational" setting driving uptime SLAs, reliability and resilience.
- Proficiency in spectrum of delivery methods (Agile > Kanban > hybrid > waterfall)
- Knowledge of accounting principles and 3rd party financial cloud applications is helpful.
- Experience with budgets, project planning, vendor engagement
- Experience reviewing enterprise business and technical architectures
- Clear and concise verbal and written abilities as well as strong presentation skills
- Ability to travel 10-20%
Desired Skills / Experience
- Experience in a large IT or product company preferred
- Salesforce background a plus or clear knowledge of our business, strategy, values, and products
- Deep understanding of how to work directly with a large number of multi-functional collaborators and drive teams with differing perspectives & methodologies in a unifying direction using influence and partnership.
- Highly ambitious, flexible, and innovative with a demonstrated bias for action and growing in a matrixed, hub-and-spoke model environment.
- Experience in global ERP implementation especially implementations related to North America, EMEA, APAC countries with a focus on Finance Transformation.
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