General Ledger & Periodic Accounting Product Manager

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

GL & PA Product Manager owns and drives six critical areas for the product group: our Agile journey and maturity, dependency management across the product group, consistency across product teams, communications, health metrics and dashboards, and aligned strategic roadmaps. This role partners closely with the GL & PA product group leader on overall business direction and priorities, while owning how that direction gets executed, standardized, and communicated across the group day to day.

This role works as a peer alongside the Product Managers and Product Owners who each own their individual product lines and delivery teams. It does not run any single product line's backlog or delivery team; instead, this person sets the standard for how the whole product group operates — owning dependency management and a streamlined intake and prioritization process across product lines and with other i-ERP product groups, and owning the roadmap alignment and health metrics that keep the group focused and accountable.

This person will build and lead a small team, including at least one direct report, to bring their vision for Jira standards, roadmap artifacts, and health dashboards to life — giving the group leader, peers, and senior leadership a clear, trustworthy view of where things stand at all times.

This person is the group's lead voice on our Agile journey and on communicating our achievements — championing Agile practices and maturity across teams, and clearly articulating how the group's work contributes to the bottom line and maximizes the value of Ford's investment in SAP. They set and enforce the standard for how Jira is used consistently across GL & PA product teams, and they own the day-to-day effort to keep all product lines on track against critical program milestones, escalating and resolving issues and risks as needed.

This person will also partner closely with our SAP and SaaS implementation and technology partners to ensure Ford is fully leveraging the capabilities of the products we already own and have implemented — rather than defaulting to custom builds or under-utilizing existing investments.

This is a role for a leader who wants real ownership of how a product group operates — someone who thrives on bringing order to complexity at scale, building the tools, standards, and narrative that make a team's progress visible and credible, and who is energized by managing and developing a small team while still influencing peers without formal authority over their teams.

• Own dependency management across the GL & PA product group — proactively identifying, tracking, and driving resolution of dependencies within the GL & PA product group (across its individual product lines) and with other i-ERP product groups (e.g., Tax, Billing, Accounts Receivable, and other Plan to Report [PTR] product areas). This role is the accountable owner of the dependency management process and the primary point of coordination across teams, though it does not directly own the underlying delivery work of other product…