Principal Product Strategy Partner, Enterprise Financial Systems

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About the role

The Financial Systems Implementation Lead is responsible for leading the successful deployment of enterprise financial systems across planning, configuration, integration, testing, data readiness, deployment, and adoption. This role serves as a critical liaison between Finance, business stakeholders, Digital Technology teams, implementation partners, and functional workstreams to ensure solutions are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned to business objectives.

This position plays a key role in large-scale transformation initiatives, including ERP implementations, finance transformation programs, process standardization, automation, and related technology deployments. The role requires a hands-on implementation leader who can translate strategic objectives into practical, scalable solutions while driving cross-functional alignment, issue resolution, and business readiness.

The ideal candidate brings deep implementation experience, strong finance and business process knowledge, structured project delivery skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders in a global, matrixed environment. They are comfortable navigating ambiguity, managing complex initiatives, and driving sustainable adoption of new processes and technologies.

Program & Project Delivery

Lead financial systems implementation workstreams from planning through deployment, stabilization, and hypercare.

Partner with Finance, business stakeholders, Digital Technology, vendors, and implementation partners to define scope, objectives, requirements, and success criteria.

Develop and manage implementation plans, timelines, dependencies, risks, mitigation strategies, and key delivery milestones.

Coordinate cross-functional execution across business, technology, vendor, and project teams to maintain alignment and accountability.

Monitor project progress, communicate status, and escalate risks, issues, and decisions to leadership and stakeholders.

Business Process & Solution Design

Analyze current-state finance and business processes to identify opportunities for standardization, simplification, automation, and control improvement.

Facilitate workshops to gather business requirements, align stakeholders, and document future-state process designs.

Translate business requirements into functional solution designs that support scalable finance operations and enterprise transformation goals.

Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, finance process objectives, internal controls, and strategic priorities.

Promote leading practices and process discipline while minimizing unnecessary customization and operational complexity.

System Configuration & Integration

Partner with Digital Technology teams to design, validate, and govern system integrations, data flows, and upstream/downstream dependencies.