Sr. Product Manager (Finance)

VF Corporation is seeking an exceptional SAP Finance Principal Product Owner to join our SAP ERP team in Shanghai, China. This role is pivotal to our SAP S/4 Transformation program in the APAC region, which aims to enhance flexibility, improve customer services, and reduce complexity by implementing industry best practices and adopting the SAP clean core strategy.

• →Lead Implementation: Oversee the implementation of the new S/4 solution, managing resources (both internal and external), timelines, and budgets within the finance area.
• →Adopt Best Practices: Promote the adoption of industry best practices by leveraging S/4 standard capabilities.
• →Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitate collaboration across teams, manage and reconcile multiple stakeholder views, resolve conflicts, and address diverse audience perspectives.
• →Team Development: Develop and mentor a team of professional managers and experienced individual contributors within your domain.

• Business Process Translation: Translate business processes and requirements into system functionality.

• Collaboration: Foster collaboration and trust to influence cross-functional teams, ensuring strategies are executed through reliable processes.

• SAP Finance Expertise: Maintain deep knowledge of SAP Finance capabilities, including General Ledger, Controlling, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, and integration with Order to Cash, Retail, E-commerce, Logistics, and Procurement.

• Financial Process SME: Serve as the Subject Matter Expert on financial processes, ensuring all financial requirements are met.

• Documentation: Collaborate with business and team members to identify and document business processes, functional specifications, test plans/scripts, and deployment plans.

• Solution Design: Design future finance solutions, enhancements, and continuous improvements for SAP based on business priorities and initiatives.

• Security Role Definitions: Define security roles for users in the SAP Finance space and participate in the segregation of duties.

• Internal Processes Oversight: Provide input and oversight on internal processes related to SAP master data, hierarchies, and reporting.

• Support Transition: Coordinate with application support to ensure a seamless transition from Hypercare activities.

• Audit Controls: Manage and satisfy SAP audit controls and pertinent SOX program requirements.

• Financial Close Support: Support monthly financial close, forecasting processes, budgeting, and planning.

• Hands-on Experience: Hands-on experience with SAP S4 HANA or SAP FICO is preferred.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or a related area preferred, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience: 10+ years of experience with SAP modules, including FI-GL, AR, AP, Credit and Asset Management, Special Ledger FI-SL, Project Systems, Bank Accounting, Foreign Currency, and/or Treasury. Experience in the implementation of SAP for a multinational group in the APAC region is required.
• Skills: Ability to work quickly and accurately under pressure and time constraints. Demonstrated critical thinking and analytical skills are required; ability to apply systems knowledge to troubleshoot and analyze new issues is critical.
• Leadership: Experience in leading financial operations for Product & Technology groups preferred.
• Self-Starter: Must be a self-starter, able to work independently with a proactive working style.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Language: professional English (written and spoken) is a must

Travel: Travel by air and overnight, as required (20% of the time)