Principal Product Manager, Finance

About the role

We are looking for a Finance Technology Principal Product Manager to lead the end-to-end Finance Close product strategy, with a specific focus on close process transformation, capability ownership, operational scalability, and M&A integration readiness. This role will sit at the intersection of Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Corporate Development, Legal, Enterprise Applications, Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, and Business Architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Finance Technology product strategy for end-to-end close transformation, including process simplification, automation, control readiness, reporting dependencies, and system enablement
• Develop and maintain a Finance Close capability roadmap that aligns Finance priorities, business process ownership, technical delivery, and enterprise architecture direction
• Partner with Accounting, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Revenue, Billing, Collections, Procurement, Corporate Development, Legal, IT, Engineering, and Business Architecture to identify close process gaps, ownership gaps, integration issues, and automation opportunities
• Work with our other product managers and define product requirements across core finance capabilities, including Record to Report, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Tax, Treasury, Revenue Recognition, Intercompany, FP&A, Billing, Collections, Consolidations, and Management Reporting
• Audit readiness, reporting requirements, data quality, and compliance impacts
• Drive alignment on finance master data decisions, including legal entities, customers, vendors, products, cost centers, profit centers, tax registrations, bank accounts, payment methods, reporting hierarchies, and consolidation requirements
• Support M&A due diligence by assessing finance systems complexity, integration risk, compliance exposure, data quality, reporting gaps, close readiness, and long-term operational impact
• Create reusable playbooks, templates, checklists, capability maps, and decision frameworks for close process improvement and future M&A finance integrations

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Finance Technology, Finance Product Management, Finance Transformation, Enterprise Applications, Business Systems, or Finance Operations leadership roles
• Deep understanding of end-to-end Finance Close processes, including Record to Report, subledger close, journal entries, reconciliations, intercompany, consolidations, reporting, controls, and audit readiness
• Experience improving or transforming close processes across a complex enterprise systems landscape
• Experience with M&A integration, legal entity onboarding, ERP integration, finance process transformation, or acquisition-related systems work
• Strong understanding of upstream and downstream finance dependencies across Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Tax, Treasury, Revenue Recognition, FP&A, Billing, Collections, and Management Reporting
• Experience working with ERP platforms such as SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday Financials, or similar enterprise finance systems
• Ability to translate accounting, tax, treasury, FP&A, and finance operations needs into product requirements, capability roadmaps, process designs, and delivery plans
• Experience partnering with senior Finance stakeholders, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Corporate Development, Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, and external integration partners
• Strong knowledge of financial controls, audit readiness, SOX requirements, reconciliations, reporting requirements, data quality, and compliance impacts
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex finance process and systems decisions to both business and technical audiences