Job Description
IT Product Manager – ERP Finance
Who You Are:
- Experienced in product management within complex retail environments.
- Skilled in driving product initiatives from concept to launch.
- Adept at collaborating with engineering, platform teams, and stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of master data management processes, systems, and data.
- Effective at prioritizing budgets and resources.
Role Overview:
- Establish and execute the strategy for master data management Products.
- Align products with technology, master data, Supply Chain, Merchandising, Procurement and Finance strategies using data-driven decisions.
- Focus on optimizing ERP Financial Management to increase efficiency within the Merchandising, Supply Chain, Procurement and Finance teams and processes.
- Foster relationships across the company to enhance ERP Master Data Management capabilities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with key stakeholders to align technology with strategic goals.
- Analyze current processes and technology to find improvement areas in SAP AP, AR, Asset Management, COPA and GL.
- Create a strategic roadmap and manage product backlogs.
- Develops the technical “vision” and designs specifications of assigned projects and may perform as implementation lead.
- Provides process expertise and solutions in FICO, FSCM, Tax areas and integration with other SAP Modules and non-SAP tools
- Leading the design efforts of projects to meet business objectives while driving the overall architecture to improve system reliability and flexibility
- Creates documentation for various stages of planning, design, implementation and support of area but not limiting to SAP FICO, Tax, POSDTA, VISTEX
- Liaison with vendor partners to provide best class solution within the architectural standards
- Define and measure KPIs for product adoption and performance.
- Promote cross-departmental collaboration.
Requirements:
- Proven product management experience in retail.
- A Bachelor’s Degree is required in the area of specialty (Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or Information Technology. MBA or CPA a plus).
- At least 7 years of SAP FICO, Tax with progressive responsibility and influence.
- At least 2 to 3 full cycles SAP implementation projects with hand-on project experience designing, testing and implementing FICO & Tax solutions
- Knowledge of IS Retail is a must with focus on POSDTA
- Understanding of integration points of FI and Tax with SD/MM/IM and other modules
- Knowledge on VISTEX is a plus
- Knowledge/Certification or implementation experience of S/4 HANA or Simple Finance is a plus
- Knowledge of Sales & Use Tax, VAT, Statutory Reporting, Income Tax Provision, Tax Compliance
- Knowledge of US GAAP, IFRS, Statutory reporting
- Experience working with Tax, 3rd party Tax software tools
- Experienced working on advanced, complex technical projects or business issues requiring state of the art technical or industry knowledge.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Ability to manage ambiguity and drive organizational change.
Leadership Competencies:
- Strategic thinker with an enterprise mindset, bringing value to all of BJs not just in Finance.
- Influential leader, sometimes without direct authority.
- Clear communicator and proactive problem solver.
- Balances strategic vision with operational excellence
Join us to drive digital transformation and elevate our ERP Finance capabilities!