Our requirements
Brings a strong product mindset, with the ability to balance business value, functional feasibility and user needs
- Sees the big picture, connects the dots and brings clarity to complexity
- Leads with purpose, structure and empathy, enabling others to work with autonomy and direction
- Knows how to drive transformation, inspire change and embed new ways of working
- Understands finance, SAP and ERP environments and is curious enough to keep learning and evolving
- Thrives in ambiguous or shifting contexts and brings stability through structure
- Champions continuous improvement and builds sustainability through smart, incremental progress
- Acts as a role model for product management, setting the standard for ways of working, collaboration and delivery
Required Experience & Skills
- 8+ years of overall professional experience in IT, or product delivery roles, ideally in complex global organizations
- 3–5 years as a Product Owner or Product Manager, with proven ability to own and drive a product vision, translate business needs into product roadmaps and lead cross-functional teams
- 5+ years hands-on experience on SAP ERP FICO, exposure with SAP S/4HANA or other ERP system, with strong focus on SAP FI-MM integration, FI-AP, FI-APP modules
- Experience in SAP implementation, core model governance or deployment support
- Strong understanding of Invoice-to-Pay process, particularly 3rd party vendor invoice management
- Ability to challenge, guide and collaborate with technical SAP teams, business stakeholders and external partners
- Previous experience in digital transformation, including leading or supporting the move from traditional to product-centric models and driving simplification, harmonization or automation initiatives
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with ability to work across business, IT and external vendors (e.g. Basware, SAP) in a global, matrixed environment.
- Experience leading or coordinating hybrid teams (internal/external), across geographies and time zones
- Ability to translate highly technical information into business insights
- Skilled in tools like Asana, Power BI, MIRO, or similar collaboration /productivity platforms
Bonus Experience
- Previous experience in Basware or equivalent SaaS platform integrated with SAP
- Experience with playbook frameworks, OKRs and product governance models
- Prior involvement is defining or scaling operating models, particularly in a transformation context
- Background in vendor or contract management (AMS, COE models, support transition)
Your responsibilities
Product Vision, Strategy & Portfolio Management
- Own and evolve the product vision for I2P Invoice Management, ensuring alignment with business strategies, transformation goals and IT&DATA objectives
- Maintain, iterate and communicate the Product Vision Board as a central artefact to drive shared purpose, direction and alignment across the squad teams, including extensions and business stakeholders
- Manage I2P Invoice Management portfolio, ensuring strategic alignment and prioritization across squads, in close collaboration with other Product Owners (Squad/Extension) and various stakeholders
- Work closely with Chapter Leads to identify resource needs, align on skills and capabilities and support the upskilling and development of the chapter members assigned to I2P Invoice Management area
- Safeguard the products CORE model and long-term sustainability
Backlog & Roadmap Oversight
- Provide guidance and alignment on roadmap planning and backlog management, while enabling squad-level autonomy
- Collaborate with squad Product Owners to ensure that backlogs reflect business priorities, user needs and sustainable solutions
- Ensure backlog guardrails are defined for products in scope, in alignment with Extension Product Owners
- Support the translation of product objectives into actionable initiatives and ensure value delivery focus is maintained across the scope
Stakeholder Engagement & Governance
- Serve as the primary bridge between business and IT for I2P Invoice Management, ensuring expectations are clear, priorities are aligned and value is continuously delivered
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders including DBS (P2P), Finance Design Authority, e-Invoicing Program, internal support teams (AMS) and external partners
- Facilitate effective governance rituals (steering committees, OKRs reviews…) and ensure delivery performance is visible, structured and transparent
Risk Management & Escalation
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks that may impact product delivery, stability or alignment with strategic goals
- Handle escalations from squads or stakeholders, unlocking blockers and providing support to drive resolution
- Transformational Leadership & Continuous Improvement
- Act as a role model for product-centric ways of working within the SF teams and across IT & Data organization
- Ensure the adoption and delivery of key product management artefacts (e.g. Vision, OKRs, Roadmap, Backlog) in a consistent and value-driven way
- Champion cross-squad and cross-product alignment, encouraging simplification, coherence and scalable practices across the Finance Accounting team
- Embed a culture of continuous improvement, by establishing feedback loops with stakeholders, end-users and team members to identify and act on areas for optimization
- Support the team in maturing their product mindset, encouraging autonomy, purpose and ownership
- Drive consistency and raise the standard of delivery by sharing best practices, success cases and lessons learned across squads and with key stakeholders
Financials & Budget Management
- Co-build, maintain and optimize I2P cost model, ensuring clear ownership of costs associated with the I2P area.
- Monitor and manage the budget across squads and vendors, ensuring cost-efficiency, transparency and alignment with strategic and productivity priorities
- Manage vendor contracts (e.g., Basware), ensuring clarity of scope, performance monitoring and value delivery
- Support forecasting and reporting activities, in alignment with the SF Performance & Governance & Chapters team (PGC)
- Partner with SF PGC team to improve processes and reduce administrative overhead