SAC Planning & Group Reporting - GPO

Overview

This role serves as the Global Process Owner (GPO) for SAC Planning and Group Reporting, responsible for leading business design and implementation of enterprise planning, consolidation, and group reporting capabilities within the Symphony program.

Symphony is an initiative to implement an updated enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and establish enterprise-wide standard processes and structure. The work includes supporting production monitoring and improvement processes, as well as sales, inventory, and operations planning.

Responsibilities

ERP Implementation Leadership

• Own end-to-end global process design for SAC Planning and Group Reporting, including the future-state operating model, governance, roles, controls, and global standards.
• Lead the definition and standardization of enterprise budgeting, rolling forecast, long-range planning, consolidation, intercompany elimination, currency translation, group close, and management reporting processes.
• Translate business objectives into clear process requirements, design decisions, acceptance criteria, and prioritized implementation deliverables.
• Act as the primary business decision-maker for the workstream by resolving design questions promptly and escalating cross-functional decisions through Symphony governance when required.
• Exercise delegated decision authority for the global process, including:
  • Approving standard process designs
  • Determining when local requirements warrant exceptions
  • Recommending prioritization of scope and investment
  • Accepting the solution on behalf of the business within established Symphony governance
• Approve business requirements, global process designs, business process blueprints, functional specifications, security concepts, workflows, reports, dashboards, and integration requirements.
• Ensure SAC Planning supports P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, OPEX, workforce, CapEx, revenue, scenario, version, assumption, and actual-versus-plan requirements.
• Ensure Group Reporting supports data collection, consolidation structures, validation, intercompany matching and elimination, consolidation journals, currency translation, close monitoring, and group-level financial reporting.
• Define business requirements for integrations among SAC Planning, Group Reporting, S/4HANA Finance, IBP, SuccessFactors, Project Systems, BlackLine, and approved reporting or data platforms.
• Establish post-go-live process ownership and governance, including process performance measures, control effectiveness, enhancement prioritization, release readiness, adoption monitoring, and continuous improvement of the global planning and consolidation template.
• Define and monitor global process KPIs and leading indicators for:
  • Planning effectiveness
  • Forecast quality
  • Consolidation and close performance
  • Data quality
  • User adoption
  • Compliance with global standards

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Corporate FP&A, Controllership, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Commercial Finance, Operations Finance, and site finance leaders to align enterprise and local requirements while protecting the global template.
• Lead a global matrixed team of Finance SMEs, Super Users, site representatives, IT resources, and system-integrator personnel, accountable for workstream priorities, deliverables, quality, and business outcomes.
• Lead fit-to-standard workshops and playbacks; challenge unnecessary customization and ensure approved gaps follow formal change control.
• Own business data readiness, including planning dimensions, hierarchies, mappings, historical data, master-data dependencies, reconciliation requirements, and data-quality expectations.
• Lead business testing strategy and execution, including test scenarios, user acceptance testing, defect prioritization, reconciliation, evidence, and business sign-off before go-live.
• Define cutover, parallel-run, transition, and decommissioning business requirements for legacy planning and consolidation tools.
• Partner with Organizational Change Management and Deployment teams to define stakeholder engagement, training, Super User and SME participation, adoption, and post-go-live support requirements.
• Provide business oversight of system-integrator and third-party deliverables, including reviewing solution quality, challenging recommendations, confirming alignment with business requirements, and escalating delivery, resource, or quality concerns.
• Other relevant duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 6+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, financial consolidation, controllership, enterprise performance management, or finance transformation, including direct responsibility for global process design or system implementation.
• Hands-on business experience implementing or operating SAP Analytics Cloud Planning and/or SAP Group Reporting. Strong knowledge in both areas is preferred.
• Deep understanding of financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, consolidation, intercompany elimination, currency translation, management reporting, and financial close processes.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence senior stakeholders, make decisions with incomplete information, and drive alignment across global functions and sites.
• Strong skills in process design, requirements definition, workshop facilitation, testing, data reconciliation, governance, change leadership, problem-solving, and executive communication.
• Working knowledge of financial controls, auditability, segregation of duties, data governance, and expectations for regulated environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating planning with S/4HANA actuals, IBP, SuccessFactors, Project Systems, and group consolidation data.
• Experience transitioning from Hyperion or another legacy enterprise performance management and consolidation platform.
• Manufacturing, medical device, life sciences, or other regulated-industry experience.
• Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency, intercompany, and global reporting environments.
• Ability to balance strategic process ownership with hands-on review of designs, data, testing, and deployment readiness.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary and a cash-based incentive program supporting a pay-for-performance philosophy.
• Comprehensive benefits package with immediate eligibility including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and adoption benefits.
• Parental leave available after one year.
• Optional employee-paid programs include supplemental life insurance, critical illness, hospital indemnity and accident insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company matching; employees are immediately eligible to participate.
• 80 hours (10 days) of company designated holidays per year plus an annual allotment of paid time off.

Location

Global responsibilities across the organization’s Finance and manufacturing footprint.

Travel

• This position may require 30% or more of your time traveling domestically and internationally to manufacturing sites, customer sites, and supplier sites, as required.
• A current passport is required, and you must be able to secure appropriate visas, as required, for travel to international locations as specified.

Equal Opportunity

U.S. Applicants: Equal Opportunity Employer. In addition, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.