Principal Product Manager - Enterprise Finance

Job Overview

Intuit is seeking a talented Principal Product Manager to join our Finance tech team and spearhead our Enterprise Finance product initiatives. As a Principal PM, you will bring your curiosity, business acumen, and customer insight to create innovative solutions, solving significant problems in the world of Enterprise Finance. As part of our Product organization, you will partner closely with the Engineering team and cross-functional business units to drive exceptional customer and employee experience.

What will you bring:

• Knowledge and/or experience in designing and implementing enterprise planning and prioritization across technologies that connect strategy and execution to drive outcomes for the business
• Identify and solve systemic, organizational-wide problems, influence, and build strong relationships. Partner with Product Management and Engineering to define needs to support strategic planning and execution as well as metrics, program requirements, and scope.
• As a cross-functional partner, lead technical discussions and be a thought leader during product reviews and be responsible for designing and executing process and strategy frameworks that facilitate product-related goal setting, decision making, and business impact.
• Articulate to stakeholders your team’s technology requirements, goals, and milestones.
• Integrate your technical knowledge, subject-matter expertise, and understanding of trends to make sound decisions and influence business direction through data-driven analysis.
• Develop and manage end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery.
• Provide hands-on program management during analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-implementation phases.
• Perform risk and change management on projects.
• Influence program/product direction and simplify complexity.
• Knowledge and/or experience in finance transformation & strategy like Source to Report & Record to Report and similar technologies is highly desirable
• Experience in building value case for strategic initiatives like ERP Cloud Upgrade or SaaS Implementations like Contracts Lifecycle Management, Credit & Collections
• Conducts competitive analysis and stays abreast of industry trends and innovations
• Experience in Oracle Financials Applications preferrably ERP Cloud or similar technology - core Finance Modules of General Ledger, Intercompany, Procure to Pay, Fixed Assets, Projects, Accounting, XLA, Cash Management. Understanding of how technology works between Oracle and other Third Party Applications. Will be good to know applications like Coupa, Blackline, Aravo etc.
• Ability to develop and execute a successful product roadmap, prioritize between features and architectural improvements and establish the operational rigor for building and improving the existing portfolio
• Must be data and metrics driven with a “win together” mindset and track record of performance excellence, i.e. consistently delivering exceptional results, exceeding targets and objectives
• Experience with Agile development and methodologies
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to think and lead complex projects simultaneously
• Must be data and metrics driven with a “win together” mindset and track record of performance excellence, i.e. consistently delivering exceptional results, exceeding targets and objectives
• Partner with Finance, business and engineering leaders across Intuit to identify areas across people, process, and technology to dramatically improve velocity.
• Analyses of technology gaps and potential synergies between the process and offering roadmaps (Driver)
• Prioritization of technology solution requirements agreed with key stakeholders, including identification of associated trade-offs (Driver)
• Effective and persuasive presentations (verbal and written) appropriate for project teams and business leaders, when communicating any of the above
• Drives a data-driven approach to product management and uses metrics to inform decision making
• Maintains a deep understanding of customer needs and feedback to continuously improve products and drive customer satisfaction

Responsibilities

As the Principal Product Manager for Enterprise Finance, you will lead a cross-functional effort to ideate and build the technology and ecosystem for enterprise planning and digital transformation. You will be responsible for deeply understanding the customers and the business processes, prioritizing customer needs, and defining and executing on a product roadmap to push the boundaries of digital process automation. Other key responsibilities include:

• Designing and implementing enterprise planning and prioritization technologies that connect strategy and execution for significant business outcomes

• Leading efforts to identify systemic, organizational-wide problems and building strong relationships to influence problem-solving

• Being a thought leader and influencer during product reviews, leading technical discussions

• Developing product-related goal setting, decision-making, and business impact frameworks

• Performing data-driven analysis to make sound decisions and influence business direction

• Planning, managing, and executing end-to-end projects, ensuring timely delivery

• Conducting competitive analysis, staying abreast of industry trends and innovations

• Aligning on consensus around product roadmap priorities, balancing short-term vs. long-term customer outcomes across the team

• Engaging and influencing Senior Leadership Team (SLT) effectively

• Managing product development lifecycles, including managing cross-functional teams to ensure successful execution and delivery of products

• Continuously evaluating product fit/gap, process optimization, ascertaining technical dependencies and maturity, performing external benchmarking, and recommending options that meet the long-term vision.

Overall, you will be responsible for leading the charge in driving digital transformation within Enterprise Finance, leveraging your customer insight, natural curiosity, and business acumen to develop features and functionalities that solve complex problems and drive significant customer and employee delight.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of software industry experience, including systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management experience.
• Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.
• Experience communicating and presenting work to senior leadership and framing discussions to gain valuable feedback.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to lead complex projects simultaneously.
• Experience with Agile development and methodologies.
• Must be data and metrics-driven with a “win together” mindset and a track record of performance excellence, consistently delivering exceptional results, exceeding targets and objectives.
• Manage product development lifecycles, including managing cross-functional teams to ensure successful execution and delivery of products.

Imagine a career where your creative inspiration can fuel BIG innovation.  Year-over-year, Intuit has been recognized as a best employer and is consistently ranked on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies To Work For” and Fortune World’s “Most Admired Software Companies” lists. Immerse yourself in our award-winning culture while creating breakthrough solutions that simplify the lives of consumers and small businesses and their customers worldwide.