SAP Finance Product Owner (m/f/d)

This is a newly established team who will support the Finance Executive Leadership Team to support the global Finance Transformation and will work on optimising and developing the finance technology infrastructure going forward.
The SAP Finance Product Owner is pivotal in optimizing our global finance systems landscape. This role serves as a critical link between finance and technology teams, ensuring seamless integration and alignment of processes and technology solutions. The primary responsibilities include managing our SAP system relationships, overseeing updates, and facilitating the adoption of new finance technologies and functionalities. They will advocate for global standards and best practices across all finance processes, ensuring that solutions meet the business needs effectively. Additionally, this role will coordinate with Global Process Owners and Key Users to prioritize and implement system updates, providing support to ensure efficient financial operations worldwide.

Your responsibilities:

• Act as the bridge and facilitate communication and collaboration between finance and technology teams.
• Manage the relationship with SAP, collaborating with the technology team to identify and integrate any new functionalities.
• Manage SAP updates and regression testing in conjunction with technology team.
• Assess and coordinate needs for external consultants/trainers to support finance systems infrastructure. 
• Represent the finance interests in the space of MDG strategy.
• Assist in identifying and  implementing best practice functionality. 
• Act as a bridge between Global Process Owners (“GPO’s”) and Key Users to prioritize and implement of finance systems updates effectively. 
• Collaborate with key users and GPO’s to develop work arounds and end state solutions for finance system challenges and supports in “translating” business needs to the technology team to guide the development of COE Solutions.
• Ensure comprehensive end to end business orientated documentation that effectively bridges business policy with technical specifications.

Your profile:

• Master’s Degree in Finance, Information Systems or a related field preferred but not necessary.
• Experience of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) or equivalent System, with SAP4Hana desirable or equivalent System.
• Experience with Finance Systems and in a business analyst role, in acting as an intermediate between finance and technology teams preferrable.
• Ability to manage change processes, to prioritise and to deal positively with different stakeholder requests. 
• Fluent in German and English, further language skills would be an advantage.

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

We want to inspire not only our customers, we also want to inspire our colleagues. How? By giving you the opportunity to take on responsibility and by offering you a long-term perspective.

You can also benefit from our attractive offers:

• Individual solutions for the flexible organisation of working hours and location
• Targeted and individual training for your professional and personal development
• A central location in Hamburg's city centre with good transport options (bus & train)
• Subsidy for Deutschlandticket ProfiTicket & bike leasing
• Effective health management (e.g. health week, free sports programmes & Wellhub)
• 30 days of holiday & frequent events for employees
• Company restaurant, free magazines & various discounts via corporate benefits
• A culture in which personal responsibility, teamwork and creativity are valued and you have room for creativity and for exciting and challenging tasks

If you are looking for an independent position and would like to enrich our existing team with fresh impulses, we look forward to receiving your complete application documents in English.

Your contact for this position is Nils Kreyenhagen.

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.