Financial Systems Project Lead

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.

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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