S4 Finance Analyst
Danvers
MA
Contract Full-Time
BCTG’s direct client is seeking an SAP S4 Product Analyst for the Finance team in Danvers, Massachusetts.
The Finance Product Analyst (PA) is a key contributor to the end-to-end delivery of business outcomes through ownership, evolution, and optimization of the SAP S4 Finance product. This role blends product strategy, engineering leadership, user-centric design, and strong business partnership to deliver capabilities that increase productivity, improve data quality, enhance financial supply chain processes.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Roadmap
- Help drive Supply Chain ERP SAP Finance product vision and translate user needs, business priorities, and strategic objectives into a clear and actionable product roadmap.
- Identify opportunities that leverage technology—including AI, automation, and advanced analytics—to improve business performance and patient outcomes.
- Define value realization frameworks, including success metrics, KR/KPIs, and measurement plans tied to business and patient impact.
Technology Delivery & Engineering Leadership
- Lead and partner with engineering teams to ensure high-quality, timely delivery of new capabilities and platform improvements.
- Oversee backlog management, user story quality, sequencing, and sprint execution.
- Remove blockers, guide decision-making, and maintain clarity and alignment across teams.
Agile Product Operating Model
- Serve as a champion of the J&J MedTech Product Operating Model, driving user-centricity, iterative learning, transparency, and outcome-focused delivery.
- Lead adoption of Agile frameworks, ensuring effective ceremonies, continuous improvement, and alignment to team metrics.
Business Partnership & User Engagement
- Partner closely with Finance and other business teams to understand workflows, pain points, and strategic priorities.
- Lead discovery, user research, business process analysis, and problem framing aligned to company strategy and the Heart Recovery Tactical Plan.
- Manage and set expectations on feasibility, sequencing, and platform constraints.
Innovation & Emerging Technology
- Identify and champion opportunities to apply AI, GenAI, automation, and digital data-capture technologies to solve key business challenges.
- Provide conceptual solution designs and effort estimates in collaboration with engineering teams, grounded in deep SAP S4 Finance expertise.
General Domain Expertise
- Strong understanding of standard product management practices, technology principles, and digital product delivery.
- Experience translating user needs and business goals into a compelling product vision and roadmap.
- Proven ability to manage backlogs, run Agile ceremonies, track team metrics, and orchestrate cross-functional releases.
- Experience designing systems that enhance customer engagement and field collaboration.
SAP S4 Expertise
- Advanced, hands-on experience with SAP S4 including configuration capabilities and platform limitations in the areas of Financial Accounting, Controlling, Financial Supply Chain Management, RAR, integrations/workflows and reporting.
- Ability to create high-level conceptual solution designs and provide level-of-effort estimates.
- Strong expectation-setting with business partners based on technology feasibility and constraints.
Leadership Skills & Behaviors
- Create a culture that focuses on helping people, improving workflows, and delivering measurable impact.
- Ability to understand and visualize key business processes and articulate to engineering teams and business partners.
- Demonstrate commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, ensuring the attraction, development, and retention of diverse talent.
- Apply user-centric methods to build empathy and incorporate insights into product decisions including prototype development, user journey mapping, and business process flow.
- Lead with business agility, strong problem-solving abilities, and a test-and-learn mindset.
- Inspire, motivate, influence, and ability to teach and grow engineering, cross-functional teams, and business partners.
- Exhibit sound judgment and confidence in challenging assumptions and proposing innovative ideas.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in Technology, IT, or Product Management.
- 8+ Years of Experience working with SAP ERP Solutions
- Advanced SAP ERP expertise in Finance modules, including understanding of platform capabilities, configuration, and solution design.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Technical skills in SAP S4, Agile, Scrum, and product lifecycle management.
- Strong soft skills: proactive mindset, ability to lead through ambiguity, excellent communication, stakeholder management, and structured problem-solving.
Preferred Attributes
- Passion for healthcare and improving Supply Chain Finance workflows.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and process-driven.
- Ability to empower teams while providing clarity, alignment, and strategic direction.