Director Product Management - Technology

About the Company

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company focused on solving problems in spaces, light, and emerging areas. Through its business segments—Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS)—the company designs, manufactures, and delivers products and services that create value in people’s lives. Acuity drives growth through innovation in lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and audio/video/control platforms, emphasizing customer outcomes, productivity, and market share expansion. The company is undergoing an enterprise transformation to reimagine end-to-end business processes, enabling multinational growth, scaling its hardware + software + services model, and integrating acquisitions. This initiative aims to automate workflows, enhance data-driven decision-making, and achieve operational excellence across Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, and Operations, with AI as a critical accelerator. A core component includes consolidating legacy on-premise platforms into Oracle Fusion Cloud, establishing a scalable, compliant, and AI-ready foundation.

About the Role

The Director of Product Management will lead the product strategy, roadmap, system design, and execution of end-to-end Record to Report (R2R) capabilities across the enterprise. This role owns the long-term product direction for R2R and related finance functions, regardless of underlying technology, while serving as a key leader for the Oracle Fusion Finance implementation. The position drives operational excellence through process standardization, automation, AI deployment, real-time visibility, and a scalable control environment across controllership, accounting-to-reporting, cash operations, accounts receivable, accounts payable, tax, and internal audit. The Director partners closely with Controllership, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Internal Audit, Shared Services, Tech, and business finance leaders to create a unified, agile, and data-driven finance platform.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Finance / Record to Report Product Strategy
  • Own the enterprise Record to Report product roadmap, including General Ledger, Subledger Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, Tax, Fixed Assets, Intercompany, financial close, consolidation, and statutory and operational reporting processes, with Oracle Fusion as a major implementation focus.
  • Drive long-term architecture decisions and operational execution for finance transformation initiatives.
  • Define enterprise finance standards while supporting unique business-unit, legal entity, statutory, and management reporting requirements.
• Platform Ownership and Oracle Fusion Implementation
  • Lead the product management function for R2R finance platforms and oversee enhancements, integrations, adoption, and implementation execution, with Oracle Fusion serving as the core platform for record-to-report, accounting-to-reporting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, cash management, tax, controls, and reporting workflows.
  • Ensure consistent master data, process configurations, reporting structures, accounting rules, approvals, and controls across AYI business units and legal entities.
• Operational Process Excellence
  • Lead optimization and standardization of:
    • Record-to-report and accounting-to-reporting workflows
    • Financial close, consolidation, reconciliations, and journal processing
    • Accounts payable, payments, and cash operations
    • Accounts receivable, collections, and customer account processes
    • Tax, statutory reporting, internal audit, controls, and compliance requirements
• Cross-Functional Alignment
  • Represent finance solutions across corporate, shared services, business-unit, and functional stakeholders.
  • Translate business, accounting, reporting, tax, audit, and finance stakeholder needs into system and process requirements for technical development teams.
• Data & Analytics
  • Partner with Engineering and finance stakeholders to prioritize dashboards, KPIs, data needs, and integration patterns across R2R finance platforms, Oracle Fusion, EPM, and the enterprise data lake.
  • Enable real-time visibility into close status, financial performance, cash position, receivables, payables, tax, controls, and operational decision-making.
• Delivery Leadership
  • Define epics, user stories, sprint priorities, and roadmap milestones for finance-focused delivery teams.
  • Lead and develop a team of finance Product Managers and Business Analysts.
  • Provide coaching, mentorship, and long-term career development.

Requirements

• Finance / Record to Report Expertise
  • Deep understanding of finance processes end-to-end, including:
    • Record-to-Report / Accounting-to-Reporting
    • General Ledger, Subledger Accounting, close, consolidation, and reconciliations
    • Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, cash operations, and payments
    • Tax, internal audit, controls, and compliance
    • Management reporting, financial data, and operational integration points across broader finance processes
• Finance Systems and Oracle Fusion Fluency
  • Hands-on experience leading finance systems, product roadmaps, or large-scale finance transformations; Oracle Fusion Financials experience is strongly preferred, ideally across multiple modules: GL, SLA, AP, AR, Cash Management, Tax, Fixed Assets, Intercompany, Expenses, and reporting/analytics.
  • Experience defining system requirements, configurations, testing, controls, security, integrations, and deployment.
• Strategic & Operational Mindset
  • Able to architect long-term finance systems while solving real-time operational problems across controllership, shared services, treasury, tax, audit, and business finance teams.
• Communication Skills
  • Skilled at engaging executives, controllership, finance operations, audit, tax, FP&A, technical teams, and end users. Fluency in English required.
• Adaptability
  • Comfortable leading in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving finance transformation environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field.
• 10+ years of finance, accounting, controllership, or finance systems experience, with at least 3+ years managing multi-functional teams.
• Experience with Oracle Fusion Financials strongly preferred, ideally through a major implementation, transformation, or administration role.
• Proven success scaling finance operations, improving close/reporting processes, or driving enterprise finance transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of controllership, A2R/R2R, AP, AR, cash operations, tax, internal audit, management reporting, and cross-functional finance processes.

Schedule

Based in the US with up to 25% travel. Travel needs may increase during major transformation and implementation periods, including the Oracle Fusion implementation.