Global Product Owner Senior Manager – Consolidations & Enterprise Structure

Job description

Who We Are Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive. What You'll Do The Finance and Procurement Product Portfolio plays a critical role at the intersection of BCG’s Global Finance and IT functions. Its purpose is to deliver best-in-class financial systems that enable the organization to transact efficiently and responsibly, capture, enrich, and report core financial data to BCG’s business leaders, he Finance and Procurement Product Portfolio plays a critical role at the intersection of BCG’s Global Finance and IT functions. Its purpose is to deliver best-in-class financial systems that enable the organization to transact efficiently and responsibly, capture, enrich, and report core financial data to BCG’s business leaders, and comply with the complex fiscal requirements of a multinational organization. The portfolio also ensures that its platforms provide exceptional user experience, aligns with BCG’s global IT enterprise architecture and security standards, and minimizes the total cost of operations. It embraces the latest technologies and Agile ways of working to enhance financial systems and deliver business value at scale. This is an exciting time to join the Finance & Procurement portfolio. BCG is in the final stages of globally deploying SAP S4/HANA. This new platform creates existing leadership opportunities, including the Consolidations and Enterprise Structure Product Owner Role. As a Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role in role in overseeing the transition to the business-as-usual operating model and lead the squad that will explore ‘the art of the possible’ and expand the platform’s capabilities going forward. In this role, you will work closely with the Global Accounting Team and local finance teams in countries where BCG operates to leverage SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting to produce the US GAAP and local market consolidated financial statements. You will have ownership for the financial systems that execute BCG’s global accounting processes, including the intercompany process and global business performance reporting. You will leverage your accounting expertise and system knowledge to drive continuous improvement through the expansion of SAP capabilities and automation of manual activities. This will include a willingness to explore how Agentic AI solutions may be coupled with SAP to drive process efficiencies. You will also manage and govern all reporting hierarchies within SAP, ensuring alignment with BCG’s global enterprise structure and compliance with statutory reporting standards. This includes partnering with the Finance Data Steward to shape the design and scalability of BCG’s global enterprise structure. The scope of the Consolidation & Enterprise Structure Product Team includes: - US GAAP, Statutory consolidations and Sub-consolidations - Intercompany Transactions (including IC Loans, In-House Bank) - Enterprise structure and hierarchy management including Management Reporting - Global Allocations, US Duties To deliver results, you will engage with stakeholders, including functional Business Process Owners, to understand business priorities, translate them into a product roadmap, prioritize a backlog of enhancements, and build business cases for potential investment. Leveraging your expertise in finance, accounting, and SAP, and following Agile principles, you will break down enhancements into meaningful segments of work for your squad to deliver and will track progress toward the desired outcomes. **Among Your Responsibilities, You Will** - Deliver business results and customer value - Ensure that your products are built in an incremental way, release new working features at the end of each sprint and create value for the customer - Track product performance to inform future work - Deliver on specific and measurable KPIs to be defined by your squad - Manage relevant product budget and support the SAP Product Lead in engaging with the funding process Serve as the voice of the internal client - Support and enable the Squad to get its work done - Regularly engage with the Squad to offer feedback on work-in-progress and clarify requirements - Engage with Chapter Leads regarding resourcing and technical expertise required in Squad - Provide feedback as part of performance management of Squad members and other members of the Portfolio - Set an overall vision to direct and inform the Squad’s work - Work closely with the SAP Product Lead and Product Portfolio Lead to understand and drive alignment on Portfolio’s business strategy, goals, and objectives - Translate Portfolio objectives into a clear vision (e.g., via KPIs, sprint goals) for your Squad to influence the creation and prioritization of the Squad's backlog of work - Share information about the Squad’s output and priorities with other Product Owners to ensure alignment across the organization Enable the organization’s way of working - Actively create and maintain a Squad culture based on BCG’s values and Agile behaviors - Model behaviors to support the organization’s a