Director Product Management - Technology

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at www.acuityinc.com.

Work location:

• This position may be based anywhere in the United States and includes travel as part of the responsibilities.
• This position requires on-site presence in Remote US-Non Cali, following a hybrid work model.
• This position requires on-site presence in Remote US-Non Cali, must report to the office every business day.

Job Summary

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives. We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity is embarking on an enterprise transformation to reimagine our end-to-end business processes, enabling multi-national growth, scaling our hardware + software + services model, and seamlessly integrating new acquisitions. This initiative is a fundamental redesign of our business processes to drive automation, speed, data-driven decision-making, and operational excellence across Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, and Operations. AI will be a critical accelerator, unlocking new capabilities and rethinking workflows to leapfrog traditional best practices.

A core component of this modernization includes consolidating multiple legacy, on-premise platforms into Oracle Fusion Cloud, integrating with a broad portfolio of boundary applications to enable a streamlined connected end to end processes, establishing a scalable / compliant / AI-ready foundation for the future. We are seeking leaders and experts with experience transforming business processes, applying AI to enterprise workflows, and delivering complex Oracle Fusion migrations on a global scale.

Acuity is seeking a Director Product Management to lead the product strategy, roadmap, system design, and execution of end-to-end Record to Report capabilities across the enterprise. This role will own the long-term product direction for R2R and related finance capabilities regardless of underlying technology, while serving as a key leader for the Oracle Fusion Finance implementation. The role will drive operational excellence through process standardization, automation, deploying AI, real-time visibility, and a scalable control environment across controllership, accounting-to-reporting, cash operations, accounts receivable, accounts payable, tax, and internal audit.

The Director, Record to Report partners closely with Controllership, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Internal Audit, Shared Services, Tech, and business finance leaders to create a unified, agile, and data-driven finance platform. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for optimizing close, consolidation, reporting, compliance, cash, receivables, and payables while ensuring R2R capabilities connect effectively with broader finance planning, forecasting, and performance management processes.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

Enterprise Finance / Record to Report Product Strategy

• 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.

Platform Ownership and Oracle Fusion Implementation

• 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.

Operational Process Excellence

• 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

Cross-Functional Alignment

• 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.

Data & Analytics

• 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.

Delivery Leadership

• 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.

To Be Successful in This Role

Finance / Record to Report Expertise

• 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
• Finance Systems and Oracle Fusion Fluency
  • 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.
• Strategic & Operational Mindset
  • Able to architect long-term finance systems while solving real-time operational problems across controllership, shared services, treasury, tax, audit, and business finance teams.
• Communication Skills
  • Skilled at engaging executives, controllership, finance operations, audit, tax, FP&A, technical teams, and end users.
  • Fluency in English required.
  • Adaptability

  • Comfortable leading in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving finance transformation environment.

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

• 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.
• 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.

Location & Travel Requirements

• Based in US with up to 25% travel. Travel needs will flex during major transformation and implementation periods, including the Oracle Fusion implementation.

The range for this position is $173,600.00 to $334,800.00 USD. Placement within this range may vary, depending on the applicant’s experience and geographic location. Acuity offers generous benefits including health care, dental coverage, vision plans, 401K benefits, and commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role. For a list of our benefits, click here.

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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