- Manages and conducts the analysis of business processes affecting financial accounting functions.

- In coordination with IT Department, plans and implements process improvement projects to improve the efficiency and quality of service provided by the Accounting Department, including transaction processing, data management and reporting.

- Uses experience and expertise to design new solutions to problems.

- Represents the Financial Accounting Department on ERP and other IT implementations.

- This position typically works under limited supervision and direction.

- Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.

Job Details:

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

- Manages the implementation of new financial accounting software applications including planning and scheduling of tasks in coordination with IT Department.

- Has ownership of complex master data objects in ERP system.

- Must have strong knowledge of all accounting aspects of SAP.

- Designs processes to resolve issues, meet new requirements, or introduce efficiencies.

- Documents procedures within the Accounting Department.

- Analyzes business processes affecting the accounting function and plans process improvement projects in conjunction with other departments involved in the process.

- This includes flowcharting where necessary and making recommendations for improvement, including the elimination of redundancy and errors and streamlining of the closing cycle.

- Trains users of financial accounting systems.

- This includes users who make direct entries to the system(s) and indirect users who consume outputs.

- Participates in designing the creation of new accounting reports where needed in support of all financial system users.

- Supervises Financial Systems Analysts and other contributors both on and offshore in the accomplishment of above tasks within a matrix organization environment.

- Supports users by resolving problems both directly and through the ticket tracking system.

Minimum Job Requirements:

- Four-year college degree, or equivalent, in finance/accounting or equivalent, plus a minimum of eight years experience in a financial accounting environment including implementation or upgrade of financial accounting systems.

- Accounting qualifications or Masters in Business Administration preferred.

- Five years or more of experience with SAP preferred.

- Thorough working knowledge of financial applications, interfacing between applications, data structure and retrieval.

- Ability to prioritize tasks, handle multiple projects and work under deadlines.

- Ability to work at a computer for extended periods of time.

- The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements.

- Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.

Worker Type: Employee