Sr Product Manager - Finance Controllership Applications

Apple • Cupertino, CA • 6h ago

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200647871-0836

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what we could accomplish. The Controllership function within Finance is pivotal in ensuring that our company spends our resources thoughtfully so that we can continue to adapt to this ever-changing environment. In order to empower the controllers of each function at Apple with modern tools to budget, forecast, analyze, track, and report expenses efficiently and effectively, we are looking for a Product Manager who will own and evolve a suite of applications tailored for Apple's Finance Controllers. This role focuses on critical financial processes including budgeting, operational expenditure (Opex) and spend management, purchase approvals, tracking actuals spend, forecasting, reporting and analytics, travel and entertainment (T&E) spend, headcount management, and contractor oversight. You will be the product owner for tools that provides Controllers with accurate data, insightful analytics, and efficient workflows for financial planning, control, and strategic decision-making. You will partner closely with Finance Transformation, Controller teams across multiple FP&A functions, IS&T, and senior Finance leaders to streamline financial processes, enhance data integrity, and deliver world-class user experiences that drive financial accuracy and strategic insights for thousands of Apple employees.

Description

As the Product Manager for Finance Controllers' Applications, you will own end-to-end product responsibility for designing and delivering Apple's internal financial platforms with a focus on enhancing financial control, accuracy, and strategic insight. You would be working with engineering teams to provide detailed functional specifications on how the front-end application should behave and how the backend data should be queried, structured, and utilized. You would retrieve this information by working with finance controllers to understand their problems and use your technical and business ability to ascertain the solutions while obtaining their approval through requirements or rapid prototyping.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years in Product Management or Business Systems Analysis within Enterprise applications, FinTech, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), or ERP systems.

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

Financial Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of financial planning and analysis (FP&A), budgeting, forecasting, opex/spend management, financial reporting, and controllership functions, including experience with T&E, headcount, and contractor management

Technical Expertise: Proficient in SQL and schema design for data analysis and modeling of financial systems and strong understanding of UI/UX design principles for crafting intuitive user interfaces

Enterprise Systems: Experience with budgeting and forecasting applications (e.g. Adaptive, Anaplan), Purchase Requisition systems (e.g. Coupa, Ariba), or similar procurement/finance systems

Business-to-Functional Translation: Ability to work between Finance Controllers, financial analysts, and Engineering teams, translating complex financial processes into clear product requirements and functional proto@types

AI & Automation: Interest in AI/ML applications for predictive financial modeling, anomaly detection in spend, automated reporting, and intelligent workflow automation within financial processes.

Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to influence without authority across Finance, Engineering, and business partners.

User-Centered Mindset: Design workflows that delight users and simplify complex financial tasks.

Comfort with Complexity: Navigate ambiguity across Finance, Legal, IS&T, and multiple business units.

Data Fluency: Analyze financial data, identify trends, and leverage insights to drive product decisions.

Technical Fluency: Discuss APIs, data models, SQL queries, UI/UX patterns, and UI development with Engineering.

Financial Acumen: Understand financial controls, compliance requirements, and business impact.

Bias for Action: Run pilots, gather data, learn, and scale quickly.

Growth Mindset: Eagerness to continuously learn and adapt to evolving financial landscapes and technologies.

MBA or technical graduate degree is a plus.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\EEOC\KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

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