Corporate Planning & Management, Product Strategy & Enablement, Associate, Dallas

Divisional Overview

The Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) Division unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, and governance strategies across the firm. CPM have 5 operating pillars. 

• Finance & Planning supports the execution of the firm’s strategic objectives through the management of the planning process, firmwide reporting and analytics and insights into the firm’s business plans and budgets. They develop consistent framework for revenue division projections creating transparency, accountability, and efficiency around projections. This pillar also includes the CF&O, EO and Engineering divisional CFOs, who are strategic finance advisors helping the firm and the non-revenue divisions achieve commercial financial opportunities. 
• Product Finance is responsible for the overall governance and proactive management of the firm’s non-compensation expenses. 
• Spend Management encompasses the functions responsible for managing all aspects of the firm's spend with third parties - advising commercial agreements and driving operating efficiency. Departments include Strategic Sourcing, Procure to Pay, Integrated Travel and Expense, Infrastructure and Transformation and Sustainable Operations. 
• Operational Risk & Resilience drives firmwide Operational Risk programs along with second line teams and implements required changes within CPM. The Corporate Insurance & Advisory team in this pillar identifies, procures, and manages corporate insurance needs for the firm and its investing businesses. The 
• CPM Engineering team provides engineering solutions that enable the firm to manage third-party spend, data and automation, plan budgets, forecast financial scenarios, allocate expenses and support corporate decision making in-line with the firm’s strategic objectives.

 

Role Overview

Professionals in CPM have an analytical mindset, exhibit intellectual curiosity and are from diverse academic backgrounds. This role sits within the Spend Management pillar.

 

The Product Strategy & Enablement team is a global team who enable Goldman Sachs to actively and effectively manage our vendor population, supply chain effectiveness, travel & expense processing & Source-to-Pay activity through the platforms we maintain within our architecture. Through excellent functional, project, program, and change management skills, along with a bias for becoming the subject matter or technical expert, this team seeks to fulfil the vision of our clients, partners and employees through platforms like Ariba, S4, Concur & Fieldglass. The Product Strategy & Enablement team partners with senior leadership, process owners, Spend Management Engineering and our vendors to drive supply chain value and achieve Corporate Planning & Management’s objectives & key results.

Job responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

As a Product Owner for ProFees: 

• You will need to work within our Professional Services category, owning tools like Fieldglass and other vendor-owned applications to progress and enable our Consulting, Advisory, Temp Staffing and Non-employee strategy.
• You will be required to drive change across the E2E platform suite, including tools like Ariba Sourcing & Contracting, Buying & Invoicing, & SLP. You will need to utilize internally built applications to ensure our leadership and business stakeholders have access to up-to-date information and spend transparency. 
• You will demonstrate strong techno-functional abilities in the S2P application suite, specializing in Fieldglass (across SoW, Profile Worker and Staff Aug modules) and be able to effectively navigate our S2P platforms and also lead identification of new/equivalent platforms & defining future state.
• You will collaborate with Spend Management Leadership, Engineering Leadership and Engineering & Operational teams across the firm to define requirements and agree on solution design
• You will work with other Product SMEs to identify and drive a robust prioritization of enhancement requests, and work to adopt new functionality being released by SAP as well as including identification of in-house changes that optimize usage or user experience across the S2P lifecycle. 
• Have a bias for flexibility and a ‘how can we make this work’ approach to the most difficult problems to solve: you will possess grit. 
• Liaise with Engineering and development teams in communicating business requirements, data migration, testing and deployment of new infrastructure capabil