Manager - Business Product Owner, Finance Transformation

Cencora is committed to creating healthier futures and is seeking a Finance Business Product Owner to lead digital transformation initiatives in Commercial Finance and Enterprise FP&A. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders to enhance financial processes and drive operational efficiency through innovative technology solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Support Business Product Manager in driving towards vision, objectives, and key results laid out under ‘Financial Operations’ as part of Finance Digital Transformation
• Serve as a strategic business and thought partner to Commercial Finance and Enterprise FP&A leaders and counterparts
• Support the evaluation, design, and launch of process improvements and enabling technology for key financial processes (e.g., monthly business reviews, investment funding process, planning process)
• Facilitate workshops or working sessions with key stakeholders to gather input and refine deliverables
• Work closely with the Business Product Owner/Manager counterparts in ‘Financial Insights’ when the process utilizes financial systems and data
• Identify up- or downstream dependencies with other programs or initiatives, and collaborate where needed
• Support and own development of outputs/deliverables that contribute to the objectives and key results (e.g., kickoff deck, process flows, pain points, requirements, use cases, etc.)
• Ensure recommendations and designs align with enterprise or global standards
• Collaborate with the Technical Product Owner/Manager (IT) to define the roadmap for finance digital transformation
• Collaborate with the Technical Product Owner/Manager (IT) to translate the business requirements, identify enabling technology, and implement the solution
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the effectiveness of initiatives
• Support and own program governance activities, such as status reporting and executive readouts
• Support change management efforts in collaboration with the ‘Employee Experience’ Business Product Owner/Manager
• Willingness to travel

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required
• 5+ years of experience in consulting, transformation, process improvement or related experience in a Commercial Finance or FP&A setting
• Experience in assessing, designing, and implementing process and technology solutions
• Experience in bridging end-to-end processes to support transformations
• Experience in building roadmaps and logically sequencing recommendations, while accounting for parallel or dependent initiatives
• Ability to obtain Product Owner certification
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with a focus on stakeholder engagement; ability to synthesize complex ideas or scenarios into a simple and concise manner
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, including cross-functional teams within and outside of finance (e.g., Accounting, Commercial, IT, HR, etc.)
• Demonstrated expertise in Lean Six Sigma, or similar methodologies for driving process enhancements
• Demonstrated career progression in roles with increased influence and leadership
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Ability to work effectively and build trust with people at all levels in an organization
• Experience influencing in a large, matrixed, global environment
• Strong desire for self-improvement and willingness to grow one's career; open to feedback, mentoring, and coaching
• Master's degree preferred
• Agile experience preferred but not required (translating product strategy and vision into user stories, participating in Agile ceremonies, refining team backlog, etc.)