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About the job

Provide finance and accounting subject matter expertise with a focus on leveraging available technology to automate, enhance and optimize finance and accounting business processes and systems. Leads the requirement gathering, implementation, support and maintenance of global financial and accounting systems for support and new implementations. Designs, constructs and automates accounting and financial reporting and reconciliation processing. Is responsible for systems configuration and administration for finance, accounting, payroll and related systems. Ensures processes and systems adhere to all applicable audit standards and controls. Acts as liaison with internal and external auditors on systems assurance portions of financial audits.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provides end-to-end business process guidance and solution definition for the design and configuration of financial and accounting systems; including reporting and ancillary applications. Focus areas include: General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, electronic invoicing and Collections, Accounts Payable, Employee Expense Reimbursement, Fixed Assets, Global Consolidation, Budgeting, Procurement, Inventory, Project Accounting, Payroll, Treasury, Cash Management, Revenue Recognition, Order Management, Subscription Management, Tax and Financial Reporting. Document requirements for procuring, developing and implementing global financial systems and policies.
• Provides leadership in incident and change management.  Manages and prioritizes support tickets and system enhancement requests. Ensures proper level of documentation and project management; including business case justification, user requirements and design specifications.  Ensures change management discipline and procedures are followed with audit trails documented. Leads testing for all system enhancements and upgrades to ensure uninterrupted system performance.  Conducts root cause analysis and takes appropriate action to prevent recurrence. Maintains a library of test cases to be used for unit and integration testing of supported systems.
• Analyzes, designs, develops, tests and implements reporting solutions with focus on automating the financial reporting and reconciliation processes with thorough knowledge of underlying data structures and expertise with reporting tools like OTBI, BI Publisher, SAS VA, SQL etc. Participates in business, technical and design discussions with finance functional users, creates functional design documents, leads testing, quality control and facilitates end user delivery with adherence to the code move approval requirements, ensuring proper version controls.
• Responsible for access management, system configuration and administration of finance, accounting, payroll and related systems. Manages user access with appropriate documentation and approvals; periodically audits access. Ensures processes and systems adhere to all applicable audit standards and controls. Enforces change management discipline and protocol, ensuring all changes are approved and documented.
• Acts as a liaison with internal and external auditors on systems assurance portions of financial audits.  Provides subject matter expertise on pronouncements and regulations applicable to accounting and financial data processing.  Ensures financial and accounting systems adhere to federal, state and local regulations for regulatory and tax compliance.  Additionally, ensures compliance required of governing bodies and frameworks such as AICPA, FASB, COSO, COBIT and Sarbanes-Oxley.  Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) are sets of standards against which the quality of audits are performed and may be judged.  Will be responsible for ensuring that SAS financial and accounting systems and processes comply with these and other global and country specific standards.
• Acts as a liaison and facilitates collaboration with inter departmental, interdivisional and intercompany initiatives.  Interfaces with MIS and software/SAAS vendors and providers.  Leads collaboration between key stake holders in finance, IT and other business areas. Facilitates knowledge sharing through cross-training and mentoring.  Actively encourages the flow of information and understanding amongst teams.
• Provides clear and concise communication regarding accounting and financial systems.  To include: end user documentation, contributions to policies, testing procedures and plans, project status updates, process flows and process audit statements identifying control risks.   Develops training materials and content.  Conducts training supporting internally developed and externally purchased or hosted systems.
• Works proactively and independently with minimal oversight ensuring items on which you have any part (requestor or provider) are moving forward.  Provides timely follow-up and status reporting.  Performs completed staff work and other duties, as assigned.

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