Senior SAP FICO Product Owner

Senior SAP FICO Product Owner

Requirements

• 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
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in SAP S/4HANA Finance, specifically in Tax and GL are preferred but not mandatory
• 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
• SAP Certification
• Experience in High Tech Industry & SaaS Transformation
• CPA / MBA