SAP Finance Systems Product Owner
| Reference | 272106789 | |||
| Sector | IT | Telecoms Jobs | |||
| Salary | £60000 - £73500 per annum | |||
| Town/City | Milton Keynes | |||
| Locations | Buckinghamshire, South East, UK | |||
| Job Type | Permanent | |||
| Date Posted | 16th Jun | |||
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| Role: Finance Systems Product Owner (SAP) Location: Milton Keynes (Hybrid) Salary: £60,000 – £73,500 Network IT are working with a highly respected organisation to recruit a Finance Systems Product Owner (SAP). 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. Role Overview 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 Essential Skills & Experience - Proven experience as a Product Owner within SAP environments - Strong technical and functional expertise in: - SAP S/4HANA - SAP BW - SAP BPC (and/or SAC planning models) - 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 ? 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 Desirable Skills & Experience - 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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