Contract - Manager, Financial Systems

Description

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Job Summary

The Manager, Financial Systems will own the optimization, integration, and support of financial systems to support our finance and accounting teams. This role is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, efficiency, and scalability of financial platforms and processes, while partnering with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and continuous improvement.

This position will build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with relevant stakeholders such as Information Technology, Finance & Accounting, Store and Ecommerce Systems teams, and other business teams as required.

This role will report to the Director, Finance Projects & Systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the administration, configuration, and enhancement of financial systems processes and support the day-to-day system operations and integrations (e.g., sales, franchise billings, reporting tools)Ensure integration and error handling from other systems to finance systems are remediated in a timely manner.Leverage data analytics tools and queries to analyze and assess the integrity of data flows
• Own various projects and enhancements in an Agile environment including but not limited to requirement gathering, design, UAT testing, post go-live support, training, and documentation.
• Support compliance with the internal control environment in relation to IT systems controls including by maintaining all related policies and performing user roles reviews, and supporting external audit requests
• As the finance SME, collaborate on projects owned by cross-functional teams, assessing finance downstream impacts and advocating for best practices
• Liaise with external auditors and responsible for providing all systems requirements.
• Collaborate with IT, warehouse operations, and merchandising for any troubleshooting in existing systems, new builds, and ensuring finance and accounting requirements are carried out/configured as needed.
• Identify areas of improvement within the processes and systems
• Work closely with all stakeholders/business teams (e.g. cross functional business teams, external partners and vendors) to establish, maintain and strengthen relationships regarding operational issues or improvements.

Skills, Experience, Education, Certifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business Information Systems or related field
• CPA designation required
• Experience working with warehouse management systems, Manhattan preferred
• Experience in working with large ERP systems such as Dynamics, SAP, or Oracle
• 5 years of relevant experiences including project management, financial systems implementation
• Experience in developing and understanding internal controls and/or designing access & controls
• Understanding of accounting and finance processes including day to day processes and month-end
• Strong interpersonal and oral/written/presentation skills.

Competencies

• Excellent communication skills – communicate complex results, tailoring to multiple stakeholders including IT, accounting and finance, external consults, project team etc. Effectively persuade stakeholders and build buy-in
• Problem solving and identifications – identify system issues in various stages of a project, dealing with ambiguity and assessing interdependencies with other teams. Resolve issues independently and make decision, or support others to drive a result
• Project management skills – prioritize and organize tasks with competing deadlines and communicate any resource constraints
• Attention to detail – certain tests and issues need to be analyzed at the transactional level; candidate must be able to drill down to the details and assess intricacies
• Technical knowledge – understand data flow between systems and tables and the finance impact to general ledger and reporting