Principal Product Manager at NMDP
United States
$140k - $175k
<p>POSITION SUMMARY: <br>The Finance Product Principal is a senior level individual contributor who leads finance technology, product strategy, roadmap, and delivery to improve financial operations, reporting, controls, decision support, and user experience.<br>This role partners across Finance, Corporate IT, Product, Operations, and vendors, to translate finance priorities into practical enterprise-aligned, scalable solutions that advance modernization, digital maturity, and financial stewardship.<br>Success requires finance and technology acumen, product discipline, executive communication, and the ability to drive outcomes in a complex, matrixed environment without direct authority over delivery teams.<br>As a senior individual contributor, the role also elevates product management capability by mentoring peers, sharing finance technology expertise, and modeling effective product practices across teams.<br><br>ACCOUNTABILITIES: <br>Product Strategy & Roadmap:<br>• Own and make prioritization decisions for the vision, roadmap, and value proposition of assigned finance technology products and capabilities.<br>• Translate Finance and enterprise priorities into sequenced product outcomes, investment recommendations, and measurable business value.<br>• Align finance technology priorities with enterprise architecture, security, data strategy, and modernization efforts and organization-wide standards for scalable technology adoption.<br>• In collaboration with Finance leadership, identify opportunities to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, accelerate cycle times, strengthen controls, and enhance decision support.<br>• Serve as a senior individual contributor and trusted advisor to Finance and enterprise leaders on technology investment priorities, product trade-offs, governance, and value realization.<br>Product Lifestyle & Delivery:<br>• Lead assigned products from discovery through implementation, adoption, measurement, enhancement, and retirement.<br>• Determine product backlog priorities using clear criteria for value, risk, capacity, dependencies, user impact, and technical complexity.<br>• Lead cross functional efforts for requirements design, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, data needs, reporting outcomes, and success measures.<br>• Oversee planning, backlog refinement, demos, stakeholder reviews, testing, release readiness, and benefits realization.</p><p>Cross-Functional Leadership:<br>• Lead through influence across multiple stakeholders including Finance, IT, Product, , Operations, , and vendors to align priorities, resolve trade-offs, and advance shared outcomes. .<br>• Represent Finance users by understanding pain points, validating needs, and designing practical solutions that fit daily work while applying industry best practice.<br>• Translate technical concepts into business language and business needs into clear technology requirements.<br>• Clarify roles, decision rights, dependencies, support models, and escalation paths to sustain progress on priority work.<br>• Drive senior-level decision making by presenting clear recommendations, risk considerations, value metrics, and implementation implications across business and technology stakeholders.</p><p>Systems, Data & Governance:<br>• Support enhancement and optimization of ERP, planning, forecasting, reporting, workflow, automation, analytics, and related finance tools.<br>• Improve data quality, master data, reporting integrity, access, and integration between finance systems and enterprise applications.<br>• Track product performance, adoption, quality, cycle time, support volume, control effectiveness, and value realization.<br>• Ensure requirements relating to documentation, testing, change control, auditability, security, privacy, etc.</p><p>REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: <br>Knowledge of:<br>• Finance processes, systems, controls, reporting, planning, forecasting, procurement-to-pay, order-to-cash, and related workflows.<br>• Product management practices, including strategy, roadmaps, discovery, backlog management, prioritization, lifecycle management, and value measurement.<br>• Finance technology, including ERP, EPM, workflow, automation, analytics, business intelligence, data visualization, and systems integration.<br>• Data management, including master data, data quality, reporting definitions, governance, and reconciliation.<br>• Agile, Lean, continuous improvement, security, privacy, audit, and internal control practices.<br> Ability to:<br>• Lead enterprise-level work through influence, alignment, decision-making, and reliable execution.<br>• Translate business needs into practical technology requirements and technical constraints into clear business choices.<br>• Develop business cases, ROI narratives, value metrics, cost-benefit trade-offs, and investment recommendations.<br>• Prioritize competing needs and communicate trade-offs to senior leaders, delivery partners, and end users.<br>• Communicate complex information clearly to executive, technical, and nontechnical audiences.<br>• Shape enterprise practices, standards, and ways of working by applying deep finance product expertise and influencing adoption across teams.<br>• Coach and mentor others through expertise, feedback, knowledge sharing, and role modeling of effective product leadership practices without direct supervisory responsibility.<br> <br> Education and/or Experience:<br>• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, or related field, or equivalent relevant experience.<br>• 12+ years of progressive experience in finance, finance technology, product management, business systems, digital transformation, or related functions.<br>• Experience leading finance system implementations, ERP/EPM modernization, reporting and analytics improvements, automation, or complex cross-functional technology programs.<br>• Experience owning a product roadmap, backlog, enhancement portfolio, or comparable technology delivery scope.<br>• Experience influencing senior leaders and cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment.<br>• Experience with innovation and emerging technologies, partnering with Finance, Business, and IT to identify and prioritize opportunities around AI, automation, and digital modernization.</p><p>PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: (Additional qualifications that may make a person even more effective in the role, but are not required for consideration)<br>• Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, Analytics, or related field.<br>• Product management, agile, project management, Lean Six Sigma, or comparable certification.<br>• Experience with Oracle, Jira, Aha!, ServiceNow, Salesforce, MuleSoft, or comparable tools.<br>• Experience with financial data architecture, ERP migrations, cloud platforms, data governance, or reporting modernization.<br>• Experience in nonprofit, healthcare, life sciences, government contracting, regulated, or sensitive-data environments.</p><p> </p><p> </p> <br>NMDP offers regular, full-time employees medical, dental, vision, life and disability, accident/critical illness/hospital, well-being, legal, identity theft and pet benefits. Retirement, paid time off/holidays, leave and incentive plans are also offered to eligible employees. Please reference this link for more information: <a href="https://www.nmdp.org/-/media/project/nmdp/nmdpsite/pdfs/external/candidate-employee-total-rewards-summary.pdf" target="_blank">NMDP Benefit Information</a>
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