Senior Product Owner: Finance Data & ERP Modernization

Position: Senior Product Owner: Finance Data & ERP Modernization

Looking for a senior Product Owner with deep ERP Finance functional experience to own the Finance data, integration, and reporting backlog for this transformation. Candidate will sit between Finance business teams, Workday functional consultants, and the Azure data engineering team, turning close, reporting, and control requirements into a trusted, well-governed set of finance data products. You do not need to be a Workday expert. You do need to know Finance cold in at least one major ERP (PeopleSoft, Workday, SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics), and you need the maturity to drive decisions and hold a roadmap steady across a multi-phase, high-visibility program. Required 8+ years in ERP Finance, Finance Systems, finance data, business analysis, functional consulting, or product ownership, including time as the accountable Product Owner or functional lead on a significant workstream. Strong functional knowledge of Finance modules in at least one major ERP platform: Workday, PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics. Solid command of GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, financial close, reconciliations, financial controls, and financial reporting. Demonstrated experience on ERP implementation, modernization, migration, or finance transformation programs, ideally including at least one full lifecycle through go-live. Proven ability to elicit requirements and produce user stories, acceptance criteria, process and data documentation, and UAT scenarios. Comfort operating across both worlds: credible with CFO-organization stakeholders and equally effective with data engineers on mappings, transformations, and defects. Experience in Agile delivery using Jira, Azure DevOps, or a comparable backlog-management tool. Excellent communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and problem-solving skills; able to drive decisions in ambiguity. Ability to work a hybrid schedule from Cary, NC.Preferred Insurance or financial services experience, with exposure to statutory reporting, insurance accounting (STAT/GAAP), or data from actuarial, investment, reinsurance, or risk functions. Hands-on experience with PeopleSoft Financials and/or Workday Financial Management, including Workday integration patterns (EIB, Core Connectors, Prism) or FDM design. Experience with finance data migration, data integration, data warehousing, or building certified data products. Familiarity with Azure, Databricks, ADF, ADLS Gen 2, Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, or Snowflake, enough to reason about feasibility and cost with engineers. Exposure to FP&A, budgeting, planning, consolidation, procurement, or enterprise reporting tools (e.g., Adaptive, Anaplan, Power BI, OneStream).Product Owner, Agile/Scrum (CSPO, PSPO), ERP Finance, or accounting certification (CPA, CMA) a plus.