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Department Description: Business Technology blazes the trail of enterprise IT. Built on the foundation of our core values - Trust, Ohana, Innovation - we own more than the traditional IT components with a heavy focus on working closely with our business partners for amazing outcomes. Our goal is to deliver technology that is centered around our business and our collective success. We oversee technology strategy, Salesforce on Salesforce, customer and partner enablement, applications engineering, infrastructure, collaboration, enterprise operations, architecture, and program enablement. We own the world’s foremost Salesforce implementation and enable our global Ohana to do their best work by leveraging our platform. We are hiring for the position of Product Manager, Record to Report. As a member of the Business Technology Product Management team, the Product Manager (PM) will specialize in a continuous process and systems improvement focused on Oracle General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, E-Business Tax/Third-party Revenue Management solution, processes & systems, supporting our controllership & Finance Operations organization. The PM is focused on the long and short-term vision of the product, harmonizing internal business partners’ interests with IT delivery, and representing the product to the stakeholder and solution contributor community. The PM closely works with our internal business partners and internal & external delivery partners to develop a roadmap of solutions needed to support key business processes. The PM then prioritizes the request backlog and translates requirements into user stories for a world-class team of software engineers and business systems analysts. Responsibilities: Owns the delivery of a product roadmap incorporating projects, features, and other key initiatives. Develop and maintain a product roadmap for the delivery area that synthesizes the needs of business customers over the long and short term. Manage delivery expectations with customers Extensive “hands-on” position is responsible for handling the implementation tasks and processes to complete a worldwide rollout of a global Oracle Financial solution. Work with the team to resolve issues related to localization, statutory requirements, reporting needs, conversions, and interfaces required for each rollout. Identify Oracle Financial configuration changes, localization, and/or customizations as required to meet statutory reporting for each country. Owns the delivery of user stories and acceptance criteria that represents the requirements provided by the business. Participates in feature assessment, requirements gathering, and documentation. Works with the scrum team in planning and execution of their work. Responsible for delivery to plan, and basic problem resolution. Work with business and IT stakeholders to prioritize work to be delivered by the delivery teams at a sprint level. Work directly with software engineers, BSAs, and system specialists on product delivery Communicates delivery scope, status, and questions back to business. Communicate effectively and appropriately with business and technical peers (written and verbal) Serves as the team's primary, but not only, a conduit to their business partner(s). Works with multiple businesses, IT, and Product stakeholders. Work very comfortably with stakeholders at the department or division level Effectively negotiates work scope with business partners to align on objectives around time to the market, effort, and scope Create and groom a backlog of well-formed stories for implementation by the area’s delivery teams Manage and communicate tradeoff decisions between scope (value in expected ROI) and schedule (higher operating expense in longer release cycles) Review technical solutions for compliance to business processes and objectives, as well as IT standards Work proactively on customer issues and resolves them in a timely manner Experience/Skills Required: 10-12 years experience with Oracle Financials implementations/rollouts. The candidate should possess expertise in configuring and providing business solutions using GL, AR, FA, CM, and EB tax. Experience with Zuora Revenue Management(RevProd) is a plus. Should have a thorough understanding of the Oracle integration architecture and should have extensive experience in developing reports and in developing integrations from external systems to Oracle GL, AR, CM, and EB Tax. Knowledge Procurement, Contracting, Sourcing, Invoice, and Payment processes are preferred but not mandatory. Experience with enterprise system implementations Develop and own user stories and acceptance criteria that represents the requirements provided by the business Experience with enterprise system implementations and solution architecture for global companies. Must have the ability to make decisions and recommendations on technology strategies Proven ability to work in a cross-functional, fast-paced environment, and lead and drive complex operational initiatives Excellent spoken and written communication as well as receptive listening skills, with the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise fashion to technical and non-technical audiences. Excellent influencing and negotiation skills. Ability to juggle multiple projects and tasks. Demonstrated knowledge of project management concepts and techniques required. Ability to work with deadlines and in a fast-paced environment Ability to oversee multiple complex project deliveries in parallel