- Senior
- Bureau à Sunninghill
The Product Manager: Finance will be responsible for analyzing the current SYSPRO offering and completing development of the SYSPRO Finance System to assist the customers in improving their Finance. This will combine with the SYSPRO e-Commerce and similar offerings.
Key Responsibilities
- Spearhead the Product Management departments’ research and development of the Finance offering and identify the required functionality to ensure that the SYSPRO Finance offering is competitive.
- Required to lead the relevant multi-disciplinary teams within the organization to ensure that the SYSPRO Finance offering is complete before release.
- Ensure the roadmap is converted into the solution. Working with and collaborating with the Development Teams, providing instruction, insight and expertise. Providing verification and validation of the work delivered.
- Facilitate the successful release of the software, ensuring that it is carefully planned and delivered by managing the Go-To-Market process of the Finance offering in collaboration with the Product operations team.
- Support the successful release by closely interacting with the Product Marketing and Marketing teams and ensuring that their requirements are successfully met.
- Developing engaging content based upon industry experience to be used by Sales teams to show product leadership by SYSPRO within the target markets.
- Strategically and tactically manage the SYSPRO Finance offering across its full lifecycle, from the Conceive to Retire Phase.
- Develop and maintain the External Product strategy for the Finance offering.
- Undertake an analysis of the Finance offering and ensure that the SYSPRO Finance offering is competitive in the marketplace. This will require a prioritized roll-out of the improvements.
- Lead a team of specialists to ensure that the offering achieves the objectives.
- Find ways to add value to the end user by developing or improving internal processes that directly affect the customer.
- Develop and implement policies, procedures, and processes to improve the commercialization of the offering.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Essential Qualifications
- Degree in Finance or an industry-relevant field
- Preferably supported by a business degrees such as a CA(SA).
- MBA will be advantageous
- Product management certification, or studying towards
Essential Experience
- Product Management experience
- Extensive SYSPRO knowledge, well versed with the product and its capabilities as well as how to use the product.
- Minimum 10 years of industry experience, with at least 5 years’ experience in a senior Finance role
Skills and Knowledge
- Strong team leadership abilities, especially leading a team of technical experts
- Outstanding communication, and presentation skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to deliver significant projects on time
- Must be a strong public speaker, comfortable in front of large, senior groups, and a solid writer
- Excellent people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams and third parties
- Comfortable being part of a Sales cycle and be in front of customers
- Able to carefully research aspects of the specialist topic, and report back to the business
- Ability to understand, design and develop complex business processes
- Excellent grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills
- Exceptional project management skills
