Business Process Owner Lead - Finance (SAP...

The Business Process Owner (BPO) Lead - Finance is responsible for leading the Finance functional project team through an SAP integration program, ensuring delivery of the Finance workplan, high-quality functional design inputs, and strong execution across testing, change management, and training readiness. This role partners closely with the Program/Project Manager and leadership to drive progress against the implementation plan, manage risks and issues, and ensure deliverables are reviewed, validated, and adopted by the business.

We are looking for someone in this role to be more focused on Operations Finance including end-to-end alignment across plant accounting, cost accounting, inventory valuation, and period-end close processes, partnering with Operations and Supply Chain to improve data integrity and decision support processes to be implemented. The role also ensure standardization of operational KPIs (e.g., yields, variances, conversion costs) and embeds controls and reporting as part of the transformation.

Key Responsibilities

Program & Workstream Leadership

• Develop and maintain the Finance work plan in partnership with the Project Manager aligned to the overall implementation plan.

• Provide SNB leadership and Program/Project Managers with input on Finance workstream roles, resource needs, and risks.

• Lead the Finance functional team through weekly execution, including prioritization, task ownership, and delivery tracking.

• Track team member performance against the weekly plan; provide informal feedback and course-correct as needed.

Delivery Management & Governance

• Review project performance with the Project Manager on a weekly basis and meet as scheduled to ensure alignment on scope, timeline, and dependencies.

• Review all key deliverables with the Project Manager; attend deliverable walk-throughs and facilitate SME reviews and approvals.

• Conduct weekly team status meetings and produce weekly status reporting (status, key updates, risks, upcoming activities).

• Participate in weekly program/project management status meetings and represent the Finance workstream as needed.

• Identify, track, escalate, and help resolve Finance-related issues; actively manage risk/issue logs and mitigation actions.

Functional Design & Methodology

• Perform assigned tasks outlined in the Finance work plan, including hands-on contribution where required.

• Contribute to key functional design inputs and decisions to ensure Finance process and system requirements are met.

• Provide guidance to the team on application development methodology and expected ways of working (design, review, testing, sign-off).

Change, Training, and Adoption

• Serve as a liaison between the business and the change management team to support communications, readiness, and adoption.

• Collaborate with the Training Specialist to develop and validate training content for Finance processes and impacts.

• Act as an early adopter, participating in testing and change management activities and modeling desired behaviors to drive adoption and outcomes.

• 10-12 years of experience leading Finance process and/or functional workstreams in ERP implementations and integrations (SAP experience preferred).- Business transformation to run a program.

• Additional preference for Operations Finance experience desired including Product Cost accounting inventory costing, and labor analysis.

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage workplans, and drive execution through weekly cadences.

• Strong experience with deliverable governance (walk-throughs, reviews, SME validation, sign-offs) and issue/risk management.

• Comfortable operating as a bridge between business stakeholders, project/program management, and implementation partners.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including concise weekly status reporting for leadership audiences.

• Hyper organized, good communication -SAP experience

-Experience integrating smaller companies