Responsible for operating in lock-step with product management teams to create a clear strategic direction for development needs and conveys that vision to the build and/or operations team. You will direct the team with a clear and descriptive set of requirements and partner with the team to determine what can be delivered through balancing the need for new features, defects, and technical debt. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders: Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Product Owners and Developers.Job Description
Company Overview
Working at GE Aerospace means you are bringing your unique perspective, innovative spirit, drive, and curiosity to a collaborative and diverse team working to advance aerospace for future generations. If you have ideas, we will listen. Join us and see your ideas take flight!
Site Overview
Established in 2000, the John F. Welch Technology Center (JFWTC) in Bengaluru is GE Aerospace’s multidisciplinary research and engineering center. Pushing the boundaries of innovation every day, engineers and scientists at JFWTC have contributed to hundreds of aviation patents, pioneering breakthroughs in engine technologies, advanced materials, and additive manufacturing.
Role Overview:
In this role, you will:
- Collaborate with product leader and business leads to understand new changes, including enhancements, new developments, and rollout initiatives; translate business requirements into functional designs and solution roadmaps.
- Lead new rollouts (Operating Units, Legal Entities, sets of books/ledgers, bank accounts, tax configurations), ensuring alignment with business goals, timelines, and compliance requirements.
- Serve as the functional architect for rollout and development projects; own and govern Oracle EBS setups and configurations for AP, GL, iSupplier and CM (e.g.COA design, banks, payment methods/formats, approvals, accounting setups, SLA rules).
- Work with vendor teams working on developments/Rollouts in the Finance area; enforce code and configuration quality and optimize delivery for value.
- Act as Finance SME for production-critical issues; perform impact analysis, triage complex problems, and drive root cause and corrective actions across EBS and integrated systems.
- Play role of Architect for custom solutions/extensions, RICEW objects, and integrations on top of Oracle EBS; maintain functional design authority, documentation, and decision logs for changes.
- Learn custom products within the Source-to-Pay landscape that intersect with Finance; ensure end-to-end process integrity and data quality.
- Define and maintain integration patterns between EBS and peripheral systems (e.g., imaging/Perceptive, payments/RightFax or bank interfaces, tax, treasury, data lake, other strategic ERPs), ensuring data accuracy, reconciliation, and error handling.
- Understand close calendar execution for AP/Finance; Support period open/close, reconciliations, subledger to GL posting, and intercompany processes when needed; ensure deadlines are met with high quality and compliance.
- Implement Flight Deck and Lean fundamentals to drive continuous improvement in quality, delivery, and cost; facilitate Kaizens, standard work, and visual management for Finance processes.
- Demonstrate strategic, expert-level problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity; communicate complex functional topics in clear business terms.
Required Qualifications:
• Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge and helps organization to gain the competitive edge.
• Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
• Works with cross-functional teams to deliver features and major, complex products.
• Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
• Routinely collaborates with UX, Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions.
• Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
• Demonstrates expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
• Owns the release and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
• Demonstrates strategic expert level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Engages frequently (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitates discussions, provides clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions.
• Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.
• Partners with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process.
• Mentors junior team members.
• Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organization. Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college with a minimum of 15 years of professional experience, Or Master’s in Business or Finance/CA with 12+ years of professional experience.
- 10+ years of hands-on Oracle EBS Finance experience with 3–5 Years end-to-end implementations focused on AP, iSupplier, GL, and CM.
- Strong understanding of Source-to-Pay processes,
- Deep knowledge of Oracle Finance modules and setups (AP, GL, CM), including Subledger Accounting (SLA), payment formats, bank integrations, iSupplier and period close processes.
- Strong understanding of accounting and finance concepts (e.g., accruals, 3-way match, intercompany, foreign currency, tax, cash management, reconciliations).
- Demonstrated experience partnering with business stakeholders, finance controllers, and audit/compliance teams.
- Willingness to work in platform-agnostic roles and learn adjacent tools where needed.
- Familiarity with software design principles, operational support practices, documentation standards, and problem-solving techniques, including requirements breakdown and effort estimation.
Desired Characteristics:
- Organized, thorough, and detail-oriented with strong ownership and follow-through.
- Collaborates well with cross-functional teams and actively incorporates input from various sources.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; effectively evaluates information/data to make decisions and drive outcomes.
- Lean practice experience including Kaizens, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), and structured problem solving; experience establishing standard work and visual controls.
Business Acumen:
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team. Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment
• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations, scope MVPs, and to drive market timing decisions
Leadership:
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making.
• Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
Personal Attributes:
• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.
Additional Information:
Whether we are manufacturing components for our engines, driving innovation in fuel and noise reduction, or unlocking new opportunities to grow and deliver more productivity, our GE Aerospace teams are dedicated and making a global impact. Join us and help move the aerospace industry forward.
Note
Note:
To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.
This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
