Sr Manager, Technical Product Owner SAP A2R (Duration-based)

Do you seek big, complex, ambiguous problems? Are you passionate about having a meaningful impact on the experience, effectiveness, and efficiency of your colleagues through innovative technology solutions? Do you want to be a part of a 133-year-old startup?

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Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Technical Product Owner (Senior Manager) – Account to Report for SAP Central Finance / S/4Hana who will work at the intersection of business & technology to define strategies that combine a deep understanding of business objectives, challenges, with technology solutions and extending them into development execution, value realization & ongoing product management. In this role, you will own setting the strategic direction for finance technology products focused on architecting SAP Central Finance / S/4 HANA as the function embarks on an ambitious transformational agenda.

This role will be in New Brunswick, NJ or Beerse- Antwerp, Belgium, and is eligible for participation in J&J’s Hybrid Flex Work program; a hybrid work schedule of 3 days in office and 2 days remote. This is a duration-based role with a target end date of December 31, 2027.

• Vision & Strategy Definition: shaping a ‘future proof’ finance business vision, strategy & capability roadmaps, and corresponding technology strategy & product roadmaps with significant decision-making latitude
• Business Problem Definition: understanding and translating business problems faced by the finance function into a value case & comprehensive set of solutions spanning process, technology, data, governance & user experience supported by defined, baselined value realization key performance indicators
• External Insights: understanding external trends and insights related to finance process & technology, including macro level shifts in compliance regimes (e.g. BEPS, SAF-T, US Tax Reform) to provide foresight necessary to inform strategies
• Solution Design: ensuring that product development efforts incorporate an approach that starts with experimentation to validate expected impact, includes human centered design, embraces agile principles, incorporates external insights, required end to end process optimizations, and compliance engagement
• Value Realization: defining expected value impact of investments across employee experience, functional excellence, efficiency, and compliance
• Architecture: partnering with the finance architecture team to define the role each system plays within our landscape aligned with business capabilities
• Internal Partnerships: acting as the primary trusted advisor to senior finance & technology leaders across all lifecycles of product development starting with inception through to value realization & ongoing continuous improvement, and communication of progress against strategic objectives
• Product Management: partnering with product management teams to ensure roadmaps are oriented to deliver finance business & technology strategy, value creation objectives, and measurable key performance indicators
• External Partnerships: managing vendor relationships to influence development roadmaps & ensure that our needs will be met by our technology partners
• Team Leadership: lead a team of finance technology strategy professionals across multiple domains

We believe that experience developing insight led strategy, crafting innovative technology solutions, experimentation, agile ways of working, intellectual curiosity, empathy, leading teams, and human centered design are essential to enable you to be successful in this role. Furthermore, it is essential that you are a natural collaborator, who has the leadership presence to influence results and build a strong sense of collective team engagement. We desire a candidate who has experience structuring & facilitating workshops with senior stakeholders. In addition to these core skills, we would expect you to have the following technical expertise:

• S/4 HANA
• SAP Central Finance
• SAP FICO
• Data strategy, governance, technology, and process definition
• Close optimization & continuous accounting

Reporting to the IT Director, SigniFi Platform Technology Leader, you would partner closely with Business Process Owners, Global Process Owners, senior finance personnel, and financial systems leads to maximize the transformational potential of technology investments.