Principal Analyst – Finance Transformation

Principal Analyst – Finance Transformation

Requirements

• At least 7+ years of experience related accounting or related field (experience in public accounting preferred) with strong fundamental accounting knowledge.
• Experience and strong understanding across end-to-end business cycles is required (Accounting close, Order-to-cash or others)
• Strong fundamental accounting knowledge (ASC 606, or ASC 842).
• Knowledge of controls processes and COSO framework
• Detail oriented, organized, motivated and able to function in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with financial reporting impacts and strong understanding of data flows
• Outstanding project management skills
• Excellent interpersonal and skills; inclusive of written and verbal communications. Ability to interact effectively with cross functional teams
• Experience with revenue accounting operations is required.
• Proven self-starter with a high degree of intellectual curiosity and the ability to establish clear priorities and goals
• Agility – Ability to understand root cause and identify solutions. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to handle ambiguity effectively and oversee multiple projects at once.
• Strong understanding of cross-functional processes and dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Understand the Company’s Order to Cash model, and commercial objectives and how they translate into the need for efficient, repeatable, and scalable business processes and operations
• Develop process road map for execution of various process optimization initiatives
• Analyze existing processes, including documentation of existing and future flows. Recommend process improvements to address corporate priorities and objectives
• Drive successful and timely execution of process improvement and other initiatives against project plans.
• Lead the design and execution of ‘to-be’ processes or major enhancements; work with IT and SME’s to collect, define, and implement business and system solutions – provide business requirements and coordinate requirements with other business users, leading test scope, review results of user acceptance testing, and create cutover plan.
• Lead change management and communications across the business for related initiatives. Drive change management initiatives in the controllership org to ensure proper adoption of new processes, and system changes
• Facilitate trainings thru creation of business process documents to accelerate understanding of new processes, systematic changes. Manage timeliness and completeness of desktop procedures library
• Define success metrics of projects with key business partners and measure and report metrics. Continuously promote organization improvements by managing key metrics and benchmarks
• Assess changes to control environment and design appropriate changes to controls. Drive alignment of changes with stakeholders.
• Support business users on ad-hoc process inquiries regarding new process/enhancements support, or non-standard transaction process inquiries
• Present project updates to management or cross functional teams to enable project alignment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of SAP (or other large ERP) is preferred
• Experience in CPQ, EDW (Tableau), and SQL is preferred.