Principal Program Manager

Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY:
The Finance Product Principal is a senior level individual contributor who leads finance technology, product strategy, roadmap, and delivery to improve financial operations, reporting, controls, decision support, and user experience.
This role partners across Finance, Corporate IT, Product, Operations, and vendors, to translate finance priorities into practical enterprise-aligned, scalable solutions that advance modernization, digital maturity, and financial stewardship.
Success requires finance and technology acumen, product discipline, executive communication, and the ability to drive outcomes in a complex, matrixed environment without direct authority over delivery teams.
As a senior individual contributor, the role also elevates product management capability by mentoring peers, sharing finance technology expertise, and modeling effective product practices across teams.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Product Strategy & Roadmap:
• Own and make prioritization decisions for the vision, roadmap, and value proposition of assigned finance technology products and capabilities.
• Translate Finance and enterprise priorities into sequenced product outcomes, investment recommendations, and measurable business value.
• Align finance technology priorities with enterprise architecture, security, data strategy, and modernization efforts and organization-wide standards for scalable technology adoption.
• In collaboration with Finance leadership, identify opportunities to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, accelerate cycle times, strengthen controls, and enhance decision support.
• Serve as a senior individual contributor and trusted advisor to Finance and enterprise leaders on technology investment priorities, product trade-offs, governance, and value realization.
Product Lifestyle & Delivery:
• Lead assigned products from discovery through implementation, adoption, measurement, enhancement, and retirement.
• Determine product backlog priorities using clear criteria for value, risk, capacity, dependencies, user impact, and technical complexity.
• Lead cross functional efforts for requirements design, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, data needs, reporting outcomes, and success measures.
• Oversee planning, backlog refinement, demos, stakeholder reviews, testing, release readiness, and benefits realization.

Cross-Functional Leadership:
• Lead through influence across multiple stakeholders including Finance, IT, Product, , Operations, , and vendors to align priorities, resolve trade-offs, and advance shared outcomes.

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• Represent Finance users by understanding pain points, validating needs, and designing practical solutions that fit daily work while applying industry best practice.
• Translate technical concepts into business language and business needs into clear technology requirements.
• Clarify roles, decision rights, dependencies, support models, and escalation paths to sustain progre...