Senior Product Manager, Finance Systems – Workday

Salesforce•Indianapolis, IN

1d•$172,500 - $260,100

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Product Manager specializing in Record to Report to join the Business Technology Product Management team. This role is crucial for supporting the Controllership, Tax, Treasury, and Revenue Recognition organization through a Finance Transformation program. The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for defining the short and long-term product vision, developing roadmaps, articulating business outcomes, and aligning business partner interests with IT delivery. This individual will collaborate closely with internal business partners and delivery teams to create a roadmap of solutions, prioritize the backlog, and translate requirements into user stories for software engineers and business systems analysts.

Requirements

7-10+ years experience with the implementation of Core Financials
Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting (or related field) with 8-12 yrs information systems experience
Expertise of cloud ERP Products such as Oracle / SAP / Workday, in end to end Invoice to Cash and Record to Report areas.
Experience with enterprise system implementations and solution architecture for global companies
Experience with Finance system implementation for large companies
Experience with process improvement or transformation
Ability to make decisions and recommendations on technology strategies
Ability to learn quickly in a multifaceted environment
Excellent spoken and written communication and receptive listening skills, with ability to present sophisticated ideas in a clear, concise fashion to technical and non-technical audiences
Excellent teammate able to collaborate with virtual and global cross functional teams
Excellent influencing skills
Ability to balance multiple projects and tasks with proven knowledge of project management concepts and techniques required
Ability to work within time bound constraints and in a fast paced environment

Nice To Haves

Experience with Agile/SCRUM techniques
Knowledge of Record to Report end to end Processes, Data Visualization, Data quality and Integration systems technologies
Excellent, creative problem-solving skills
Solid understanding in information technology architecture components, procedures and practices

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and lead the delivery of a product roadmap incorporating projects, features, and other key initiatives.
Identify business themes and trends and influence priorities and approach at the roadmap level.
Work with the scrum team in planning and execution of their work.
Responsible for delivery to plan, and basic problem resolution.
Work with business and IT partners to prioritize work to be delivered by the delivery teams at a sprint level.
Work directly with software engineers, BSAs, and system specialists on product delivery.
Communicate delivery scope, status, and questions back to the business.
Communicate effectively and appropriately with business and technical peers (written and verbal).
Serve as the team's primary conduit to their business partner(s).
Work with multiple business, IT, and Product partners comfortably at the department or division level.
Look ahead to identify delivery capacity needs based on the roadmap and work with management to address them.
Anticipate blockers and obstacles, and advance appropriately to solve them.
Guide business partners through the work intake process, highlighting milestones and artifacts, and understand the value behind them.
Participate in cross-functional initiatives as a delivery component, representing their team's work with a small number of dependencies.
Deliver innovative solutions maximizing Salesforce on Salesforce applications based on business value.
Create and groom a backlog of well-formed stories for implementation by the area’s delivery teams.
Review technical solutions for compliance to business processes and IT standards.
Lead the definition of done from feature acceptance criteria and meets business value requirements.
Seek opportunities for process optimization, process redesign, or development of new process/policies.
Act as the authority for solutions owned by the team.