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.)