Title: Technical Product Owner IT Manager, Enterprise Performance Management, Enterprise Planning New Brunswick, NJ

Seeking a Technical Product Owner, IT Manager, and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) who will work at the intersection of business & technology to define strategies that combine a deep understanding of business objectives, and challenges, with technology solutions and extend them into development execution, value realization & ongoing product management. You will support the EPM Anaplan Product for the Enterprise Planning squads in ensuring technology is enabling the process designed while keeping an evolving mindset in continuous improvement of the product supporting these areas of the FP&A process. This includes planning, forecasting, reporting, and advanced analytics/machine learning / artificial intelligence, where applicable to the future state process. You will be leading and mentoring Product Analysts and collaborating with a group of resources based in the US or Canada.

Key Activities include:

• Accountable for designing, building, validating, and deploying solutions enabled in Anaplan to support the Planning and Forecasting processes for Enterprise models which span across Operating Expenses, Labor & Headcount, Balance Sheet, Capital, Sector Consolidations, Tax, Intercompany Charges, Long Range Financial Planning and Target Setting
• Mobilizing teams, motivating and holding squad & key partners accountable to deliver
• Ensure the evolution of the product in line with the technology Roadmap.
• Accountable for ensuring that product development efforts incorporate an approach that starts with experimentation to validate expected impact, includes human-centered design, follows agile principles, incorporates external insights, requires end-to-end process optimizations, and compliance engagement.
• Responsible for the understanding and translating business problems faced by the finance function supported, into a value case & comprehensive set of solutions spanning process, technology, data, governance & user experience.
• Accountable for the definition of the expected value impact of investments across employee experience, functional excellence, efficiency, and compliance
• Collaborate with product management teams to ensure roadmaps are oriented to deliver finance business & technology strategy, value creation objectives, and measurable key performance indicators.

We believe that experience in the Enterprise Planning space, crafting technology solutions, agile ways of working, leading teams as well as displaying intellectual curiosity and compassion, are essential to enable you to be successful in this role. Furthermore, it is essential that you strive as a collaborator, have the leadership presence to influence results and build a strong sense of collective team engagement. In addition to these core skills, we would expect you to have the following technical expertise:

• Financial Planning & Analysis (Enterprise Planning areas a plus)
• EPM solutions (i.e. Anaplan, Hyperion, IBM)
• Advanced analytics
• People management skills
• Operating in a build framework leveraging product management tools like Jira
• Artificial intelligence / machine learning (an asset)

Reporting to the Senior IT Manager - Technical Product Owner EPM you would partner closely with global process owners, senior finance personnel, and financial systems leads focusing on the maximization of technology investments impacts.

Qualifications:

• A bachelor s degree is required. Preferably in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business or equivalent.
• 5 years of professional business and relevant Information Technology experience is required.
• Prior work experience in developing tools supporting the financial planning and budgeting process, such as TM1, Hyperion, and/or Anaplan is required.
• Experience with all aspect s product development lifecycle as well as Agile methodology is required.
• Strong leadership, communication, and social skills; effective manager of people and strong team-building skills is required.
• Experience working with external partners to bring products/services to market is strongly desired.
• Ability to motivate and encourage people and make tough decisions, when necessary, in a timely manner.

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