Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Acuity Inc. is a market-leading industrial technology company that develops lighting, intelligent spaces, building management, and audio, video, and control solutions. The Director Product Management will lead the enterprise Record to Report product strategy, roadmap, system design, and execution, with a major focus on Oracle Fusion Finance. The role will drive finance process standardization, automation, AI adoption, analytics, operational excellence, and cross-functional transformation across the enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Own the enterprise Record to Report product roadmap, including General Ledger, Subledger Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts, Receivable, Cash Management, Tax, Fixed Assets, Intercompany, financial close, consolidation, and statutory and operational reporting processes, with Oracle Fusion as a major implementation focus
- Drive long-term architecture decisions and operational execution for finance transformation initiatives
- Define enterprise finance standards while supporting unique business-unit, legal entity, statutory, and management reporting requirements
- Lead the product management function for R2R finance platforms and oversee enhancements, integrations, adoption, and implementation execution, with Oracle Fusion serving as the core platform for record-to-report, accounting-to-reporting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, cash management, tax, controls, and reporting workflows
- Ensure consistent master data, process configurations, reporting structures, accounting rules, approvals, and controls across AYI business units and legal entities
- Lead optimization and standardization of: Record-to-report and accounting-to-reporting workflows; Financial close, consolidation, reconciliations, and journal processing; Accounts payable, payments, and cash operations; Accounts receivable, collections, and customer account processes; Tax, statutory reporting, internal audit, controls, and compliance requirements
- Represent finance solutions across corporate, shared services, business-unit, and functional stakeholders
- Translate business, accounting, reporting, tax, audit, and finance stakeholder needs into system and process requirements for technical development teams
- Partner with Engineering and finance stakeholders to prioritize dashboards, KPIs, data needs, and integration patterns across R2R finance platforms, Oracle Fusion, EPM, and the enterprise data lake
- Enable real-time visibility into close status, financial performance, cash position, receivables, payables, tax, controls, and operational decision-making
- Define epics, user stories, sprint priorities, and roadmap milestones for finance-focused delivery teams
- Lead and develop a team of finance Product Managers and Business Analysts
- Provide coaching, mentorship, and long-term career development
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field
- 10+ years of finance, accounting, controllership, or finance systems experience, with at least 3+ years managing multi-functional teams
- Deep understanding of finance processes end-to-end: Record-to-Report / Accounting-to-Reporting, General Ledger, Subledger Accounting, close, consolidation, and reconciliations, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, cash operations, and payments, Tax, internal audit, controls, and compliance, Management reporting, financial data, and operational integration points across broader finance processes
- Hands-on experience leading finance systems, product roadmaps, or large-scale finance transformations required; Oracle Fusion Financials experience is strongly preferred, ideally across multiple modules: GL, SLA, AP, AR, Cash Management, Tax, Fixed Assets, Intercompany, Expenses, and reporting/analytics
- Experience defining system requirements, configurations, testing, controls, security, integrations, and deployment
- Able to architect long-term finance systems while solving real-time operational problems across controllership, shared services, treasury, tax, audit, and business finance teams
- Skilled at engaging executives, controllership, finance operations, audit, tax, FP&A, technical teams, and end users
- Fluency in English required
- Comfortable leading in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving finance transformation environment
- Experience with Oracle Fusion Financials strongly preferred, ideally through a major implementation, transformation, or administration role
- Proven success scaling finance operations, improving close/reporting processes, or driving enterprise finance transformation programs
- Strong understanding of controllership, A2R/R2R, AP, AR, cash operations, tax, internal audit, management reporting, and cross-functional finance processes
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