At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the SAP Finance product lifecycle and drive system innovation.
- Company: Join a dynamic finance systems team in a large, evolving organisation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and opportunities for growth.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with a focus on modern financial processes.
- Why this job: Shape the future of finance technology and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Experience as a Product Owner in SAP environments and strong leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
This is a key leadership role within a growing Finance Systems & Data function, offering the opportunity to shape the future of enterprise finance technology within a large, complex environment. This role sits at the heart of a significant investment in finance systems, with a focus on delivering scalable, standardised, and high-performing SAP Finance solutions.
As a Finance Systems Product Owner, you will take ownership of the end-to-end SAP Finance product lifecycle, driving system evolution, optimisation, and innovation. Operating in a player‑coach leadership role, you will lead a team responsible for finance systems while working closely with Digital Services and business stakeholders to ensure solutions are aligned, robust, and future‑ready. You will play a central role in enabling modern, standardised financial processes, reducing reliance on bespoke solutions and promoting data‑driven decision‑making across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities- Own the full product lifecycle for SAP Finance systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, controlled, and aligned to business priorities.
- Lead and develop a team responsible for finance systems stability, optimisation, and continuous improvement.
- Drive prioritisation and delivery of system enhancements, upgrades, and transformation initiatives.
- Manage and refine the product backlog, developing user stories and acceptance criteria using Agile methodologies.
- Work collaboratively with stakeholders to translate business needs into structured system solutions.
- Lead UAT, release management, and training, ensuring successful adoption and ongoing support.
- Act as a change agent, promoting a test‑and‑learn approach and supporting business transformation.
- Collaborate with Digital Services on architecture, SAP S/4HANA, and cloud strategy decisions.
- Drive process standardisation, reducing manual workarounds and improving efficiency.
- Act as an escalation point for system priorities, integration challenges, and conflicting requirements.
- Proven experience as a Product Owner within SAP environments.
- Strong technical and functional expertise in: SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW.
- Experience working across finance processes and SAP integration points.
- Strong track record delivering SAP system enhancements, upgrades, and transformation programmes.
- Experience supporting or contributing to BPC to SAC transitions.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across complex organisational structures.
- Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments, managing backlogs and delivering iteratively.
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, evolving environments.
- Strong leadership capability, with experience coaching and developing teams.
- Experience within Higher Education or Public Sector environments.
- Awareness of SAP cloud strategy (Public vs Private Cloud).
- Understanding of finance process standardisation and system‑driven controls.
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