VP, Product & Engineering Coda & FP&A

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4. With over 40 years of heritage, we’re an agile, fast growing, Cloud company that is on a mission to redefine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for mid-market people-centric organisations.  With our innovative, self-driving, adaptive and intuitive software, our customers can spend more time on meaningful high-value work.  At the heart of what we do lies a simple yet profound purpose:
Improve how people work by focusing on what truly matters. — A powerful statement that enables different priorities for different people. We’re shaping how work should feel, and we empower our people by providing them with the right tools to achieve the autonomy they need - it's what makes us unique.

Job Description About the Role Unit4 is looking for a VP, Product & Engineering to lead the Product & Engineering organization for our Coda and FP&A business, our enterprise financial management and planning products. You will own both engineering and product management end to end, including the team, architecture, delivery velocity, and roadmap, with engineering depth being the most critical strength for this role.

You will report directly to the General Manager of Coda & FP&A. You will lead a global Product & Engineering organisation of approximately 70 people, which is expected to continue growing. We have ambitious growth plans for this business, and we need a leader who can bring focus, urgency, and vision to get us there. Someone who can take real ownership of both teams and drive them with the accountability of a business owner.

As a key member of the Coda & FP&A leadership team, you will help shape and deliver the long-term business strategy, with accountability for product direction, engineering execution, technology investment and organisational performance. What You'll Do Own the Product & Engineering organization for Coda and FP&A end to end, including the team, architecture, delivery, and roadmap, reporting directly to the General Manager.

Partner with the General Manager to define and deliver the long-term strategy for Coda & FP&A, translating business priorities into clear product, technology and investment plans. Set engineering strategy and technical direction for the Coda and FP&A codebases (mainly Java, C, and Type Script), and stay hands-on enough to engage credibly in architecture and design decisions. Establish a clear multi-year technology roadmap aligned with product and business priorities, leading the modernisation of established platforms while protecting service stability and customer confidence.

Own the product strategy and roadmap for Coda and FP&A, shaping priorities based on customer needs, market opportunity, and commercial goals. Act as executive sponsor for strategic customer relationships, key opportunities and business-critical escalations, working closely with Sales, Customer Success, Marketing and Finance to connect product choices to customer and commercial outcomes. Lead portfolio investment decisions, balancing customer needs, commercial opportunity, innovation, platform modernisation, operational resilience and technical debt, with clear recommendations to senior leaders on priorities, opportunities and risks.

Sharpen our delivery speed and agility (tight feedback loops, rapid iteration, bias to action) while balancing that pace with the reliability our enterprise customers depend on. Lead, mentor, and grow the product and engineering teams as we scale; strengthen the management layer, hiring plan, and career paths needed to support that growth. Build succession and talent plans, and shape an organisational structure and operating model that create clear accountability, effective collaboration and sustainable growth across Product…