Digital Finance Product Manager

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Airbus Aerosystems Kinston is looking for a Digital Finance Product Manager to join our team based in Kinston, NC. This is a critical digital role within our newly established Digital team in Kinston, instrumental in ensuring end to end stability and performance of our Digital Finance Solution with a primary focus on ERP (SAP) solution. You’ll be the on-site digital representative for the digital finance solutions providing a vital link between our local Kinston site and the central ERP Centre of Excellence (CoE) for all these subjects.

Initially, you will be the Digital Finance leader to ensure the deployment of our digital finance solutions (local & central) to the Kinston site and facilitate the move to the end state finalizing the transition to Airbus. This means looking beyond the immediate transition, understanding the bigger picture, being familiar with the strategy and the different digital finance solutions, and supporting decisions that align with our long-term objectives.

Beyond this, you’ll play a crucial role to ensure overall consistency and ensure the Digital Finance solutions are maintained by anticipating evolutions needed. In the meantime, this role will support the creation and stabilization of a small Digital Finance team in the North America Region in order to be able to face current and future challenges. This position offers a unique opportunity to play a key role for Digital Finance in North America, supporting immediate key projects and activities, and contributing strategically to the success of our manufacturing ramp-up in a dynamic environment undergoing significant transformation in the North America Region.

• Manage and lead the transition period from an overall Digital Finance perspective: 40%
  • Ensure services delivered from existing suppliers are in line with the current contracts to secure the day to day activities. (bugs / defects resolution as per TSA) until the transition to the end state is secured.
  • Anticipate, advice & secure mandatory small evolutions / change requests of the As-Is solutions with the existing suppliers being and remaining compliant / efficient.
  • Develop deep understanding of the As-Is solutions (end to end) with processes associated to ease the transition to the Digital Finance central and local solutions.
  • Be the focal point between Kinston local teams and the central SAP ERP CoE (Finance), ensuring effective communication and alignment on Finance solutions.
  • Gather and anticipate local and legal requirements / specificities and liaise with local/central teams.
• Manage the end state deployments: 30%
  • Together with the Digital regional Domains, being fully responsible and accountable for the Digital Operations service performance of the local site.
  • Supply Chain:
    In alignment with regional & global sourcing strategies: drive the suppliers activities related to Digital Operations solutions and services, track the suppliers performance for any deliveries for Operations, may it be for project or for run activities.
• Manage and secure efficiency and reliability after the end state deployment: 15%
  • Change: define and lead the change management / plant adoption and implementation of the Digital solutions being delivered to the Operations at plant level, whichever team, function, Airbus entity or external supplier delivers them.
• [After full securitization of the 3 main missions above], act as the key stakeholder to secure Digital Finance in the Region
  • Steer the creation and stabilization of the Digital Finance Activities with Central Digital Finance Team in Europe.
  • Steer & secure with Digital North America the local Digital finance activities.
  • Ensure that overall application portfolio is maintained and secured end to end on Digital side.
  • Steer the…