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This position sits within Air Canada's ERP-SAP Product Management group on the Digital Product team to enable the evolution of finance and SAP products.

Air Canada seeks a highly motivated and experienced Product Manager Solution Lead to join the ERP Product team.

The SAP FICO Functional Solution Lead is responsible for the end-to-end functional solution strategy, design, governance, and delivery of SAP Finance and Controlling solutions. This role serves as the bridge between finance leadership, enterprise architects, functional product owners and technical delivery teams to ensure SAP solutions support strategic business objectives while maintaining a scalable, compliant, and clean-core architecture.

The role provides leadership across SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation initiatives, enhancements, integrations, operational support, and continuous improvement programs. The individual is expected to define solution direction, oversee complex implementations, guide functional product owners and consultants, and ensure delivery of business value across Finance processes.

This individual must have experience creating creative, high-performance ERP solutions, and be customer-centric, data driven, and passionate about the travel industry. The ideal candidate thrives while operating in a collaborative, fast-paced, and high-energy continuous improvement delivery model.

Responsibilities Solution Strategy & Design

Define end-to-end SAP Finance solutions strategy, aligned with enterprise standards.





Lead solution design for: General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Project Systems (PS), Treasury and Cash Management, Tax and Compliance.

Ensure alignment with SAP S/4HANA best practices and Clean Core principles.

Conduct fit-gap analysis and recommend optimal solutions.

Design integration points with SAP and non-SAP applications.

Review and approve functional solution designs, FSDs, and WRICEF requirements.

Evaluate and incorporate SAP AI capabilities (e.g., SAP Business AI, Joule copilot, intelligent invoice matching, predictive accounting) into finance solution designs.

Define functional solution patterns for embedding AI-driven automation within FI/CO processes.

Stakeholder Engagement

Partner with Functional Product Owner and Finance process owners / managers.

Translate business requirements into scalable SAP solutions.

Facilitate workshops and design sessions.

Present solution recommendations to executive and steering committees.

Drive adoption of SAP standard capabilities whenever possible.





Collaborate with Product Owners in educating finance stakeholders on FICO functionality and AI-enabled capabilities within SAP S/4HANA

Ensure finance-specific AI use cases are in alignment with enterprise AI governance policies.

Delivery & Project Leadership

Lead functional design across projects, programs, and enhancements.

Provide solution guidance during: discovery, design, build, testing, cutover, hypercare and stabilization.

Ensure quality of functional specifications and testing deliverables.

Support release planning and roadmap execution.

Evaluate AI-readiness assessments in project discovery phases: data quality, process maturity, and organizational readiness for AI adoption within finance.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

Ensure compliance with: 52-109 controls, financial reporting requirements, audit standards and security and segregation-of-duties requirements.

Understand and stay current on regulatory, and technology trends to understand their potential impact and apply these learnings within Air Canada.

Participate in review boards.

Establish solution governance and design standards.

Define AI governance guardrails for finance processes, ensuring AI model outputs are auditable, explainable, and compliant with financial regulations.

Monitor and evaluate emerging AI regulations and ethical AI frameworks relevant to financial processes and airline industry compliance.

Operational Support & Continuous Improvement

When required, provide Level 3 functional expertise for critical incidents.

Lead root cause analysis and problem management activities.

Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial close activities.

Drive reduction of recurring incidents through

📌 Product Manager (Winnipeg)
🏢 Air Canada
📍 Winnipeg