Technical Product Owner ERP Finance- IT Manager

To support their Pharm TranSCend program, Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Technical Product Owner ERP Finance focused on Accounts Receivable/Payable, CFIN replication and Supply Chain Integrated finance processes. The role is to be located in the United States (preferred location Titusville NJ) or in EMEA (preferred location Beerse BE).

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Pharm Transcend is a global business transformation program that will modernize our foundational transactional processes and harmonize them into one “clean” ERP as a standardized platform for growth and efficiency gains. The program will simplify the Pharm ERP landscape from 7 to 1, standardizing processes in order to have a cost effective, fit for purpose digital backbone that will enable us to support the Pharm business with agility. Additionally, the program will remediate the end-of-life system exposure that we risk towards the end of this decade.

As part of the Pharm Transcend Program, the Technical Product Owner ERP Finance will be an active member of the Pharm Supply Chain JJT team, driving global standardization within Pharma of ERP technology solutions in the scope of Accounts Payable/Receivables, Revenue Accounting, Gross to Net, CFIN replication, VIM, Business Partner master data, FSCM – Credit Management, Integrations with Supply Chain specific Finance processes & Central Payments.

This role will be focused on close collaboration with parallel program of CFIN Transact which includes co -innovation and collaboration on some of the key integrated capabilities such as Central Pay, Central fixed Assets, planning and actual data synchronization.

The position leads design, validation and delivery of SAP S/4 capabilities and data, aligned with business process needs. The position governs the scope of the SAP S/4 template and drives template innovation and evolution through the deployments.

The Technical Product Owner ERP Finance role will take responsibility for following scope areas:

• Accounts receivable
• Accounts Payable
• Fixed Assets/ Project Systems
• CFIN Replication
• Commercial Finance
• FSCM – Credit Management

Solution Design

• Lead in the overall translation of business requirements into technical solutions.
• Lead how requirements may be implemented from a functional standpoint and drive/improve user experience.
• Drive selection of solution options, work with the Lead Engineer to assess tech elements of the solution prior to user testing.
• Identify business needs related to solutions requiring integration and configuration options as well as understand application landscape to ensure solution meets organizational needs.
• Lead the integrations design based on business needs and J&J best practices and recommend appropriate connection types, while evaluating impacts.

Product Delivery

• Facilitate release planning, sprint planning and demos with stakeholders.
• Accountable to manage the integrated build with the Engineering team to ensure the end-to-end build of a particular part of a solution is compliant and works as designed.
• Oversee planning and execution of Technical Testing by Engineering team; Support Business Process Owner to plan and execute User Acceptance Testing.
• Apply compliance requirements within scope of responsibility, ensures SDLC documentation, system configuration and compliance activities are up to date as required.
• Drive reporting and analytics to provide visibility on squad performance and monitor sprint metrics and user results.

Operational Leadership

• Shape the squad vision & roadmap; Steer the squad in delivering products & features oriented around business impact.
• Interact with other Squads within the Project/Platform as part of synchronization ceremonies to implement cross-squad tasks.
• Drive engagement with third parties to support delivery of squad objectives.
• Plan resourcing for the squad (i.e. new role, change in role), create ASOE requests, interview, select and onboard members to join the squad.
• Drive continuous improvement across the product lifecycle.