Manager, Global Finance Operations - Record To Report

Job Description

Responsibilities

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Job Description

Role Purpose:

The Global Finance Operations Record to Report Manager is primarily responsible for overseeing the accounting activities in Blackline Systems, with focus mainly on account reconciliation excellence. This includes reconciliation quality evaluations, analysis on open required adjustments, executing account reconciliation training programs for both onshore and offshore users, and various metrics reporting. This role will also manage the month end close process on business units he/she supports by working closely with the BPO offshore team, ensuring BPO performance complies with SLA's (Service Level Agreement), providing excellent customer service to the business stakeholders (acting as a first point of contact) and driving process improvements via effective automation.

Responsibilities:
• Closely manage the day-to-day operations performed by offshore teams; provide analytics to key business stakeholders for decision making; provide support on both statutory and US financial audits and requests from external and internal operational audits
• Ensure timeliness and accuracy of the overall monthly close activities as performed by both the on-shore and off-shore teams
• Closely work with the Blackline System Admin team to ensure timeliness and accuracy of Blackline change requests by various users, address issues and provide solutions
• Act as mentor to onshore staff; develop them into mature financial advisors with a customer service orientation toward the dependent BPO and business stakeholders
• Provide excellent customer service to business stakeholders including addressing and resolving queries escalated by both on & offshore teams in a timely manner
• Serve as business partner by maintaining in-depth knowledge of the industry and accounting policies & principles
• Review monthly metrics with BPO and business stakeholders to improve processes and resolve issues
• Work alongside R2R Global Process Owner to drive forward transformation initiatives
• Manage the transition of new processes from business units into Global Finance Operations via robust governance and documented standard operating procedures
• Collaborate within and across organization on key company-wide initiatives and to support the Finance transformation roadmap (people, process, technology)
• Research US GAAP as it relates to significant matters and provide accounting guidance to ensure compliance with US GAAP
• Manage all applicable SOX documentation, compliance and providing audit support to both internal and external auditors
• Identify areas of control risk. Ensure that adequate and effective system of internal controls is maintained for reporting and analysis.
• Support departmental strategic objectives
• Other duties and special projects as needed

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Accounting
• CPA or MBA preferred
• 5+ years' experience in public or private accounting with experience directly related to key responsibilities preferred
• 1-2 years' prior management experience required
• Solid work experience in general ledger accounting, month end close functions including account reconciliations, trial balance reviews, analysis, KPI & metrics
• Prior experience in an outsourced or global shared services environment
• Experience in implementing global processes and systems
• Experience in driving process improvement within a Finance organization
• Successful track record of development/delivery of complex solutions
• Experience with SAP ECC FI or other large ERP systems and subsystems
• Proficiency in a variety of systems including MS office suite of tools (Word, PowerPoint and high-level Excel spreadsheet such as familiarity of macros, pivot tables, lookup, IF functions)
• International experience preferred (understanding of currencies and FX)
• Entertainment industry preferred

Desired Characteristics:
• Ability to communicate effectively and tactfully in a multi-cultural environment with persons at all levels of the organization across all communications channels
• Demonstrated customer service orientation and proficiency in working with multiple Finance and Accounting customer groups across a very large global organization
• Able to quickly build rapport and establish credibility with stakeholders
• Must have excellent time management skills to perform in a fast-paced, high pressure, high volume environment, work well under tight deadlines
• Autonomously and resourcefully, delivers high quality, high-impact work, end-to-end
• Must be collaborative, team player, flexible and able to quickly adjust to changing priorities
• Supports an environment of intellectual curiosity
• Must have broad knowledge of US GAAP, with strong technical accounting, process and controls background
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to details a must
• Experience in delivering system/process improvements and implementing projects within a finance organization
• Flexibility to work overtime or travel, as needed

Additional Requirements:
• Must be willing to work in Orlando, FL
• This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.

Additional Information

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