Controllership Manager

Join a team recognized for leadership, innovation and diversity

As a Controllership Manager, you will work in a business facing role on the financial systems team, responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering systems initiatives in Blackline/SAP/HFM solutions. You will be responsible for the design, implementation, and management of financial reporting systems. This role is actively involved in process optimization, developing requirements, creating roadmaps, and managing data connections, tool workflows, templates, and permissions to deliver meaningful transformation leveraging financial reporting and dashboards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Significant knowledge of accounting and finance best practices and experience participating in, or leading, transformation projects to help stakeholders optimize all elements of their accounting and finance organization.
• Document and maintain clear, concise functional and technical specifications for financial reporting applications and business system processes and provide cross-functional support to the IT team to write custom Business Rules and/or Calculation Scripts for custom logic to facilitate automation opportunities.
• Be the change agent and evangelize the technology solutions and provide required training to Finance groups.
• Provide technical insight into the determination of technical inadequacies and/or deficiencies that affect the functional area’s ability to support and meet organizational goals.
• Collaborate with technology and functional leaders to create a technical roadmap for enterprise-based products.
• Drive standardization of tools, processes, and reporting solutions that facilitate key business insights across the division through collaborative partnerships with finance function and corporate teams.
• Experience with various Blackline modules; development and implementation are required.
• Demonstrated experience with refining organizational design; business process analysis and process mapping to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and control of transactional and decision support processes; consolidations and shortening the financial close; implementing financial close and account reconciliation technology; designing and implementing corporate performance management.
• Build cross-functional relationships and work collaboratively across functions to coordinate completion of cross-functional deliverables.
• Perform an As-Is/To-Be Gap Analysis to identify differences between business process flows as they are now, and what they will be in the future. Make comprehensive recommendations covering all aspects of implementing the new processes.
• Provide an executive summary to address the performed analysis, possible strategies to address risk, and a risk mitigation plan.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and/or technical staff to resolve issues with software applications.
• Design, develop and establish KPIs to monitor analysis and provide strategic insights to drive growth and performance.
• Analyze data in support of proposed projects, business cases, and system requirements.
• Drive continuous innovation and communication to both your operations & other business partners.
• Support overall data strategy of centralization, consistency, automation, and visualization. Consider data as a key strategic business asset and seek to enhance and optimize wherever possible.

YOU MUST HAVE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems / Computer Science / Engineering or Finance.
• English Proficient.
• Experience with Workiva, and various Blackline modules, SAP; development and implementation is required.
• 5+ years’ practical work experience in Finance, IT, Project Management, Consulting or Accounting roles.
• 1+ years management experience, managing a direct or matrix team in defining responsibilities, setting, and tracking deliverables and prioritizing and executing projects.
• Strong knowledge of controllership activities, with a process improvement mindset. Demonstrated work experience with corporate financial systems SAP, ERP, Management Reporting and Financial Consolidation processes.
• Microsoft Office (Strong proficiency in MS-Excel, PowerPoint).
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with a customer service focus.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to work and collaborate with others.

WE VALUE:

• Proficiency in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups) and SQL.
• Ability to display complex quantitative data in a simple, intuitive format and to present findings in a clear and concise manner.
• Capable of investigating, familiarizing, and mastering new data sets quickly.
• Vision and drive to evaluate processes for efficiency and effectiveness and continuously improve.
• Strong analytical skills needed to synthesize large quantities of data, identify trends and drivers, and distill them into insightful analysis.
• Ability to build partnerships, influence decisions, and work in a collaborative style.
• Ability to learn new tools and systems to ‘super-user’ levels. Experience with ERP systems.
• Experience implementing Blackline modules (Tasks, Reconciliations, Matching, Journals, etc.).
• Ability to manage competing demands, prioritize workload, and manage multiple responsibilities against deadlines.
• Ability to identify and act quickly on opportunities. Strong analytical, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills.

Additional Information

• JOB ID: HRD263245
• Category: Finance
• Relocation Tier: Not Applicable
• Security Clearance:
• Aviation Authority (FAA for US):
• Band: 04
• Referral Bonus: 20000
• Requisition Type: Standard Requisition
• US Citizenship:
• FLSA Statement:
• FLSA CODE: Exempt