Finance Product Manager

Job Purpose: The Finance Product Manager supports the Manager Applications &
Master Management to manage and deliver financial systems enhancements and
support for Finance on a global scale, to ensure the provision of best-in-
class financial systems, applications and management information for use
internally by Finance as well as across the business, including to inform /
enable commercial decisions. The role is expected to help in the
implementation and compliance with the effective policies and processes for
financial systems access and master data updates ensuring appropriate control
over Group's assets and accurate financial information processing. Job
Outline: - Ensures customer success at team lead (peer) level across all
stakeholders within and outside Finance for all topics under the
responsibility of FA&MM. Plays a change management role by identifying
business improvement opportunities across Finance and dependent processes
outside of Finance, proposing solutions via technology, innovation, suggesting
new products available in the market and providing recommendations on business
process review opportunities. - Assist department head on cost & budget
management keeping for IT CAPEX projects & investments, OPEX (AMC & Licenses)
and human resource management for the department. Facilitate contract
management with Group Procurement, Group Legal and IT, coordinate RFP / RFTs
preparation and responses for where FA&MM is involved. - Ensure alignment with
respective Technical Product Manager (TPM) and Release Train Lead (RTL) from
IT to assure successful delivery of current Program Increment (PI) while
playing lead role for planning the next PI coordinating across the FA&MM
product teams under responsibility. - For strategic projects involving
multiple products from FA&MM, play the role of single point of contact for
respective Project Manager from the Finance PMO. Play project manager role for
operational projects directly under FA&MM delivery responsibility. - Manage
the FA&MM support function as a point of escalation making sure support is
provided in line with the Service Line Agreements (SLAs) agreed to keep the
lights working with IT and respective external vendors and banks, as required.
Have a proactive and foresight view on risks and issues and go cross-
functional / cross-product if required to resolve escalations. - Assure
alignment of FA&MM processes to all applicable policies for User Access
Management by providing proactive guidance for product teams under management
including but not limited to periodic user access reviews. Provide a single
point of contact for auditors, incorporate suggestions from audits and reviews
to policy as advised by various internal & external auditing functions. -
Accountability for ensuring all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are
documented and kept up to date by the respective product teams. This includes
periodic review of roles & responsibilities to advise the department head
towards optimization & continuously improvement of FA&MM functions. - Identify
training needs arising from across the stakeholder groups and manage the
delivery of the training plan for financial applications to enable better
utilization of technology & adoption. - Keep an eye on changes in the external
world to proactively identify impact to FA&MM. This could include periodic
review of circulars / agreements (e.g. IATA resolutions, tax regulation
notices, banking notifications, GDPR, PCIDSS, etc.) and guiding the product
teams to plan ahead accordingly. - Manage own performance & continuous
learning plan. Help improve performance of the unit, help other members in the
team with their development to support succession planning.
Qualifications & Experience: Experience: Finance & Insurance.Finance
Management : ‎8+ years Qualifications: Degree or Honours (‎12+‎3 or equivalent)
Degree in Technology, Finance or Accounting related would be preferred
Knowledge/Experience: - Demonstrable continuous self-development through
career is preferred. - Experience in large multi-national companies in
managerial capacity, focussed on applications / product management. -
Functional (Finance and/or Accounting) knowledge is highly desired. -
Functional product knowledge of Financial Applications highly desired which
include but not limited to: ERP Finance (Oracle Financials eBS preferred),
Airline Revenue Accounting, Direct Operating Costs, Payment Gateway, Treasury,
Planning, Forecasting, Consolidation & Budgeting, Reporting / Analytics -
Ability to understand the wider impact of financial applications, understand
how it fits in the overall technology landscape and how it enables the finance
function - Basic Accounting & Taxation knowledge - Advanced Operational
Finance Knowledge - Ability to understand finance processes from a financial
applications perspective - Experience in handling master management functions,
preferably in an airline or aviation group - Advanced product management
skills, basic project management skills
Salary & Benefits: Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-
free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted
flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an
excellent leave and healthcare package. That's on top of transport benefits,
life insurance and more.