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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Manager Financial Systems - **Company:** The Panther Group - **Location:** Andover, MA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** SAP Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Business Analytics Applications, Data Analysis, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Application Services, Information Systems, Data Integrity, Data Systems, Data Warehousing, Power BI, SAP (Applications), SAP FI/CO, SAP Implementation, Systems Integration, SAP Profit Center Accounting, Sap Finance, Information Technology, SAP S/4HANA - **Published:** August 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.thepanthergrp.com/index.smpl?arg=jb_apply&POST_ID=14224305 ## About the Role * Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field. * 10+ years of progressive experience with enterprise financial systems, including 7+ years of hands-on SAP Finance experience in a manufacturing environment. * Demonstrated experience leading full-cycle SAP implementations, upgrades, integrations, acquisitions, carve-outs, or significant finance transformation initiatives. * Strong hands-on expertise with SAP FICO, CO-PA, Product Costing, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and manufacturing cost accounting. * Solid understanding of manufacturing accounting, inventory accounting, standard costing, variance analysis, profitability, and financial close processes. * Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional technology initiatives and manage third-party implementation partners and vendors. * Experience with SAP S/4HANA is strongly preferred. * Experience with financial reporting and analytics platforms such as SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI, data warehouses, or comparable technologies is preferred. * Exposure to AI-enabled finance technologies, automation, and emerging financial systems capabilities is a plus. * Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, financial controls, and reporting requirements. * SAP FICO certification and/or CPA, CMA, PMP, MBA, or similar credentials is preferred. * Strong communication, project leadership, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills. ## Description Our client, a leading U.S.-based manufacturing company, is seeking a Financial Systems Manager to lead the strategy, optimization, and transformation of its financial systems environment. This is a highly hands-on role for an experienced SAP Finance professional who can bridge Finance, Accounting, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and IT while driving technology-enabled process improvements. Responsibilities * Own the strategy, governance, configuration, and continuous improvement of the company’s SAP Finance and Controlling environment. * Serve as a key business and technical partner to Finance, Accounting, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and IT. * Lead the financial systems roadmap, modernization initiatives, upgrades, implementations, integrations, and process automation efforts. * Provide subject matter expertise in SAP FICO, CO-PA, Product Costing, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, financial close, and manufacturing cost accounting. * Lead the design and optimization of product costing, standard costs, cost center structures, profitability reporting, and manufacturing KPI reporting. * Develop and enhance profitability reporting, including customer, product, channel, and market-segment profitability and gross-margin analysis. * Lead finance transformation and enterprise-wide initiatives, serving as program manager when appropriate. * Manage implementation partners, consultants, software vendors, project resources, budgets, schedules, risks, and executive-level reporting. * Partner with business leaders to redesign processes, improve data integrity, strengthen controls, and deliver scalable financial technology solutions. * Support integrations between SAP and third-party applications, including banking, treasury, expense management, tax, collections, and reporting platforms. * Drive the development and optimization of financial reporting, analytics, and data solutions. ## Related Videos - [Remote Driving on Plant Grounds with State-of-the-Art Cloud Technologies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/251-remote-driving-on-plant-grounds-with-state-of-the-art-cloud-technologies) - [Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1017-next-level-enterprise-architecture-modular-flexible-scalable-multichannel-and-ai-ready) - [Beyond Dashboards: Fixing Text-to-SQL with Semantic RAG](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2036-beyond-dashboards-fixing-text-to-sql-with-semantic-rag) - [Robots are coming into the wild! 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