Global Product Manager - Fin-Data Integrity & Reporting Enablement
Boston Consulting Group
Who We Are
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.
What You'll Do
The Finance and Procurement Product Portfolio plays a critical role at the intersection of BCG’s Global Finance and IT functions. Its purpose is to deliver best-in-class financial systems that enable the organization to transact efficiently and responsibly, capture, enrich, and report core financial data to BCG’s business leaders, and comply with the complex fiscal requirements of a multinational organization. The portfolio also ensures that its platforms provide exceptional user experience, aligns with BCG’s global IT enterprise architecture and security standards, and minimizes the total cost of operations. It embraces the latest technologies and Agile ways of working to enhance financial systems and deliver business value at scale.
BCG’s global finance function is undergoing a major transformation, with technology serving as a core enabler. A key part of this transformation is the deployment of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud as the firm’s global ERP platform. This new platform creates exciting leadership opportunities, including the Data Integrity and Report Enablement Product Analyst role. In this role, you will be a part of a squad with a defined mandate focused on data quality and reporting. You will play a role ensuring that data flows seamlessly between the BCG’s data layer and core BCG platforms (e.g., Workday), while meeting standards for accuracy and completeness. You will also help leverage your knowledge of SAP’s native capabilities to help local finance teams in 60+ markets to access and build the reports they need to fulfill statutory and compliance requirements.
The Product Analyst is crucial to driving key operations activities and innovation within the squad.
Among your responsibilities, you will:
Squad operations & Delivery Support
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to shape and prioritize the squad’s backlog, ensuring alignment with business needs
• Represent the Product Owner and collaborate with stakeholders to define business requirements and translate them into clear, actionable user stories or functional specifications to guide the engineering teams on work to be performed
• Support the full delivery lifecycle, including coordination of testing, issue resolution, and deployment of new features and data updates
• Support change management efforts through creation of documentation, training content, and communications for new tools or processes.
• Champion an Agile mindset across all squad activities, promoting iterative delivery, continuous feedback, and a focus on delivering value early and often
Data Quality & Integrations
• Develop a strong understanding of core financial data in SAP, how it is structured, and how it links across BCG systems (e.g., enterprise data layer) to support accurate and scalable data flows.
• Partner with other portfolios and integrations chapter to design and validate new data flows
• Monitor the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data flowing between BCG’s enterprise data layer and key platforms, identifying and addressing any data quality gaps.
• Investigate data issues or inconsistencies, perform root cause analysis, and work collaboratively with the engineering teams to implement sustainable solutions.
• Help define and implement proactive data quality controls and business rules that improve data reliability and reduce manual intervention.
Compliance and Statutory report enablement
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders and champion a self-service, sustainable reporting model.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand reporting needs and guide them in using SAP’s native capabilities, providing coaching or documentation to enable self-service reporting.
• When needs cannot be met through SAP, define requirements and collaborate with the squad to build fit-for-purpose reports using alternative reporting tools.
• Support the development and testing of custom reports to ensure they meet stakeholder expectations and functional requirements.
• Facilitate the successful handoff of custom-built reports to end users, enabling them to maintain and evolve them independently.
YOU’RE GOOD AT
• Applying critical thinking to analyze complex financial data and identify patterns, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements.
• Managing multiple priorities and tasks with strong attention to detail and a focus on timely delivery.
• Communicating clearly and proactively with team members, stakeholders, and end users.
• Working independently to investigate and resolve issues, while knowing when to escalate for support.
• Embracing an Agile mindset and thriving in a fast-paced, iterative work environment.
What You'll Bring
• A strong foundation in financial processes and a passion for working with financial systems and data.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 6 years of relevant experience in finance, accounting, data analysis, or systems support.
• Familiarity with ERP platforms (such as SAP S/4HANA) and financial reporting tools.
• Understanding of Agile ways of working and the ability to contribute within a squad-based delivery model.
• Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to structure and document complex information clearly.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
Who You'll Work With
• The squad Product Owner who will be your line manager
• All squad members including technical engineers, quality assurance engineers
• Internal clients including functional Business Process Owners, translating their voice and needs into user stories and engaging users as needed
• A Scrum Lead, who will remove impediments and will assist you in preparing the required artifacts and managing ceremonies
• Other Product Owners and Product Analysts within BCG, to share best practices and ensure alignment between squads and culture
Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
BCG is an E - Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify.