▷ 3 Days Left! Senior Project Accountant - Financial Systems Solutions

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF POSITION

To support the Assistant Controller & Lead Project Accountant in providing support for finance related system & process improvement initiatives. The financial systems solutions (FSS) team is responsible for understanding and translating the needs of the business with the use of technology and process improvement. They ensure their deliverables are aligned with business need and requirements, provide advice, and work cross-functionally with the project team. Experience as a business system analysts or project accountant is beneficial for success in this role. The FSS Senior Project Accountant(s) will own end-to-end project components as assigned to ensure all aspects of finance are working effectively. This will include ensuring subledger, reconciliation, accounting entries, and accounting and tax calculations, and reporting all work as designed prior to deployment of new solution

MAJOR AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITIES :

Support for all finance related system implementations to meet the strategic growth objectives in a flexible, collaborative, and rapidly changing environment.

Collaborate with project team members in Financial Accounting & Reporting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Finance Indirect Tax and Finance Shared Service teams as well as other corporate workstreams like IT, Retail, eCommerce, Merchandising, Marketing, Contact Centers, Transportation to deliver MVP approach (Most Viable Product) followed by continued Optimization project scope to ensure accurate end to end process flow to ensure system analysis and design flows through to accurate and efficient accounting and reporting solutions.

Assist in all aspects of assigned projects tasks, including the following :

• Write, Review, improve, and execute finance test cases in Azure Dev Ops.Direct, execute and collaborate on D365 quarterly upgrade testing for finance
• Perform regression testing of ERP and ISV systems with finance processes with focus on accurate ledger & subledger postings with primary focus on sales, settlement, and inventory.
• Reconcile and validate financial reporting for data integrity within the Sales and Finance Cubes
• Participate in agile work sessions, including in daily scrum
• Be an active participate in System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Own cutover activities to support project team members during system go live activities
• Review development of training documentation
• Partner with Finance BSA on all project deliverables; including working troubleshooting system tickets and bugs.
• Assist in standardization, centralization, and enhancement of process documentation to include consistent content to allow for better cross-training and transition of tasks as new and existing systems are onboarded, including :
• Review, enhance, and maintain business process documentation because of process change from project initiative, including end-to-end flows for system projects
• Lead annual audit of business process documentation to ensure compliance
• Perform General Ledger System Maintenance, including but not limited to : Retail store setup, chart of account and financial dimension maintenance, monthly maintenance of open / closing of modules, run batch jobs including monthly allocations and reporting.
• Perform levels of system monitoring to ensure order and payment processing is occurring timely and accurately.
• Conduct monitoring for process work arounds determine for system failure or temporary work around processes.
• Provide backup support, as needed, for system issue resolution, staffing needs, and process improvement needs within the finance function.
• Keeps supervisor informed of important developments, potential problems, and related information necessary for effective management.
• Coordinates and communicates plans and activities with others, as appropriate to ensure a coordinated work effort and team approach.
• Performs related work as apparent or assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS :

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and / or ability required.

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