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SAP Finance Systems Product Owner

Job Posted: 27 minutes ago

Salary: £ 60,000 - 73,500 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Milton Keynes

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Role: Finance Systems Product Owner (SAP)

Location: Milton Keynes (Hybrid)

Salary: £60,000 – £73,500

Network IT are working with a highly respected organisation to recruit a Finance Systems Product Owner (SAP). This is a key leadership role within a growing Finance Systems & Data function, offering the opportunity to shape the future of enterprise finance technology within a large, complex environment.

This role sits at the heart of a significant investment in finance systems, with a focus on delivering scalable, standardised, and high-performing SAP Finance solutions.

Role Overview

As a Finance Systems Product Owner, you will take ownership of the end-to-end SAP Finance product lifecycle, driving system evolution, optimisation, and innovation.

Operating in a player-coach leadership role, you will lead a team responsible for finance systems while working closely with Digital Services and business stakeholders to ensure solutions are aligned, robust, and future-ready.

You will play a central role in enabling modern, standardised financial processes, reducing reliance on bespoke solutions and promoting data-driven decision-making across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Own the full product lifecycle for SAP Finance systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, controlled, and aligned to business priorities

Lead and develop a team responsible for finance systems stability, optimisation, and continuous improvement

Drive prioritisation and delivery of system enhancements, upgrades, and transformation initiatives

Manage and refine the product backlog, developing user stories and acceptance criteria using Agile methodologies

Work collaboratively with stakeholders to translate business needs into structured system solutions

Lead UAT, release management, and training, ensuring successful adoption and ongoing support

Act as a change agent, promoting a test-and-learn approach and supporting business transformation

Collaborate with Digital Services on architecture, SAP S/4HANA, and cloud strategy decisions

Drive process standardisation, reducing manual workarounds and improving efficiency

Act as an escalation point for system priorities, integration challenges, and conflicting requirements

Essential Skills & Experience

Proven experience as a Product Owner within SAP environments

Strong technical and functional expertise in: 

SAP S/4HANA

SAP BW

SAP BPC (and/or SAC planning models)

Experience working across finance processes and SAP integration points

Strong track record delivering SAP system enhancements, upgrades, and transformation programmes

Experience supporting or contributing to BPC → SAC transitions

Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across complex organisational structures

Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments, managing backlogs and delivering iteratively

Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions

Comfortable operating in ambiguous, evolving environments

Strong leadership capability, with experience coaching and developing teams

Desirable Skills & Experience

Experience within Higher Education or Public Sector environments

Awareness of SAP cloud strategy (Public vs Private Cloud)

Understanding of finance process standardisation and system-driven controls

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