Description
Digital Enterprise Technology blazes the trail of enterprise IT. Built on the foundation of our core values - Trust, Ohana, Innovation - we own more than the traditional IT components with a heavy focus on working closely with our business partners for amazing outcomes. Our goal is to deliver technology that is centered around our business and our collective success. We oversee technology strategy, Salesforce on Salesforce, customer and partner enablement, applications engineering, infrastructure, collaboration, enterprise operations, architecture, and program enablement. We own the world’s foremost Salesforce implementation and enable our global Ohana to do their best work by leveraging our platform.
We are hiring for the position of Senior Product Manager, Record to Report! As a member of the Business Technology Product Management team, the Senior Product Manager (PM) will specialize in continuous process and systems improvement passionate about Record to Report, supporting our Controllership, Tax, Treasury and Revenue Recognition organization as we embark on Finance Transformation program.
The Sr. PM is accountable for the short and long term vision of the product, product roadmaps, business outcome articulation, harmonizing internal business partners interests with IT delivery, and representing the product to the partner and solution contributor community. This person will work closely with our internal business partners and internal & external delivery partners to develop a roadmap of solutions needed to support key business processes. They will then prioritize the request backlog and translate requirements into user stories for an elite team of software engineers and business systems analysts!
Responsibilities:
Develop, maintain and lead the delivery of a product roadmap incorporating projects, features and other key initiatives
Can identify business themes and trends and can influence priorities and approach at 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 business. Communicate effectively and appropriately with the business and technical peers (written and verbal)
Serve as the team's primary, but not only, conduit to their business partner(s). Work with multiple business, IT and Product partners. Work very comfortably with partners 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 understands 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 to 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
Experience/Skills Required:
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
Experience/Skills Desired:
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
In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.
