Description
The Senior Manager, Financial Systems & Reporting Transformation is responsible for leading the redesign of the company's financial master data, including the chart of accounts, cost centers, profit centers, product hierarchies, and dimensional reporting structures. The goal is to enhance profitability insights, standardize management reporting, and enable seamless upstream consolidation with the parent company.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end redesign of the company's financial master data structures to enable enhanced profitability, channel, and product-level reporting
- Define the target-state data model required for seamless consolidation with the parent company's reporting environment
- Develop and execute the migration plan from the legacy fragmented environment to the redesigned master data model
- Establish master data governance to preserve data integrity post-implementation
- Partner with IT and the SAP functional teams to configure and validate master data changes in SAP ECC
- Spearhead process optimization efforts within key functional areas, including the month-end close process, consolidations, allocations, and monthly management reporting
- Drive efficiency and process design improvements within major transaction cycles
- Identify, champion, and execute opportunities to leverage IT solutions to create efficiencies and strengthen internal controls
- Collaborate directly with global and regional business leaders to drive actionable roadmaps for process simplification and automation
- Serve as the lead point of contact for financial data alignment with the parent company
Requirements:
- BA/BS degree in Accounting/Finance or related field
- CPA preferred (or equivalent)
- 8+ years of relevant experience in accounting, finance transformation, or reporting at a public company and/or external audit of public companies
- Hands-on SAP ECC experience is required, including a working knowledge of the FI/CO module, master data structures, and how master data drives sub-ledger and reporting outcomes
- Demonstrated experience leading or contributing to a financial master data redesign, chart of accounts redesign, or ERP finance transformation program
- Experience or strong familiarity with AI/LLM-enabled finance tools
- Experience supporting or enabling consolidations into a parent company's reporting environment
- Previous participation in existing internal control programs; strong understanding of SOX implications of master data and system changes
- Data analytics experience preferred; comfort working with large data sets and reporting tools to validate and communicate the impact of master data changes
- Project management skills; effective consultation, interpersonal, prioritization of topics/issues, and organization
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical data model decisions into business-relevant impacts