Digital Product Director - SAP Finance

Location: Medina

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Position Overview:

The Digital Product Director - SAP Finance is a senior leader responsible for driving the digital transformation of Finance through strategic product management, modern system design, and strong cross-functional partnership. This critical role is accountable for the overall SAP Finance experience through developing, owning and driving the respective digital product vision, strategies, architecture, design, execution and delivery within this domain. Partners with Corporate Function leaders to define and execute digital product roadmaps that modernize business processes and enhance operational performance.

The Director leads a high-impact team and collaborates closely with Digital & IT (D&IT) and global Finance stakeholders. This role reports directly to the SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer and is a member of the D&IT Leadership Team.

Key Responsibilities:

Finance Systems Ownership & Transformation Leadership

• Lead the end-to-end Finance Systems Transformation roadmap, aligning SAP S/4
  
  HANA, One Stream, and related applications with enterprise financial strategy, operational excellence, and future-state capabilities.
• Drive Finance technology modernization initiatives, ensuring alignment with best-practice SAP FICO processes (Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Asset Accounting, Product Costing, COPA, and Consolidation).
• Partner with Finance leadership and the Finance Process Owner to define future-state standardization, harmonization, and automation opportunities across all global Finance processes.
• Serve as the accountable owner for the SAP Finance architecture, including enterprise structure, chart of accounts design, fiscal calendars, controlling area governance, cost center hierarchies, and master data integrity.
• Own SAP security governance for Finance, ensuring appropriate segregation of duties (SoD), user roles, workflow approvals, and audit-compliant controls.
• Ensure adoption of SAP standard FICO capabilities before considering custom development to support maintainability and long-term scalability.
• Manage and prioritize the Finance enhancement backlog, coordinating with Finance, IT, and implementation partners to assess value, impact, and timing.
• Ensure all Finance-related changes are properly tested, documented, validated, and communicated prior to deployment.
• Translate Finance functional needs into clear application requirements, leveraging consultants and integrators to design and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Own finance application incident management, partnering with AMS support, consultants, and internal teams to resolve issues, identify root causes, and prevent recurrence.
• Provide expert-level SAP functional guidance for key Finance cycles (period close, asset capitalization, cost allocations, FX revaluations, inventory valuations, profitability reporting, and consolidation).
• Ensure uninterrupted financial reporting and close processes across all finance applications, including integrations, data loads, mappings, and validation.
• Define and enforce Finance master data governance, including COA stewardship, cost/profit center governance, asset classes, and reporting attributes.
• Ensure strong internal controls within SAP, including workflow approvals, audit trails, and compliance with SOX, GAAP, and internal policies.
• Oversee data quality across SAP and connected systems by establishing standards for ownership, cleansing, and ongoing monitoring.
• Oversee Finance IT documentation, including process flows, functional specifications, test scripts, and solution architecture artifacts.
• Oversee integrations between SAP, One Stream, data warehouses, and other edge solutions, ensuring complete, accurate, and timely financial data.
• Manage product budgets, resource planning, and expected results; ensure alignment with enterprise priorities.
• Assess competitive and industry trends to inform product strategy and identify opportunities for innovation.

D&IT Operational Leadership

• Establish and maintain internal operational cadence for D&IT, ensuring effective communication, collaboration, and accountability across the organization.
• Partner with leadership to define and update KPIs; coordinate reporting and performance tracking.
• Manage departmental budgets, including allocations, forecasting, and labor planning.
• Lead preparation of standard organizational updates, including Monthly Operations Reviews and long-range planning cycles.
• Maintain central communication channels and organizational repositories (Teams), including rosters, org charts, budgets, and planning materials.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, Business, or related…