Analyst, Finance Solutions, Blackline & Cadency Support

Job Description

The Financial Solutions Team provides support to the Global Accounting, Business Services and Financial Planning & Analysis Teams along with their respective customers. This support is provided through development, implementation, administration, training, and support of financial systems and processes.
The focus of the role involves driving implementation and improvement of key financial processes across WBD for multiple transactional and accounting support systems, such as Blackline, Cadency Certification and SAP/S4.
Your Role Accountabilities…
• Production Support – Maintain Production/System Admin activities include:
• Support for BlackLine and Cadency Certification
• Ensuring deadlines are met in an accurate and efficient manner on SOX-critical tasks, and communicating the status to management
• System responsibilities including, maintaining user security, maintaining and understanding job scheduling and utilizing manual jobs, resolving data discrepancies between systems, monitoring interface job failures and researching root cause, maintaining users' profiles, updating master data hierarchies and reporting structures, monitoring and educating on product releases/updates/maintenance, acting as a liaison between users and other teams (e.g.: IT, escalation and resolution), and cross-training across the Finance Solutions team
• Production Support – User Support activities include:
• Assisting team members with complex issues
• Oversight of addressing users how-to's, ad hoc issue troubleshooting and resolution for purposes of closing the financials, preparing account reconciliations, assigning account reconciliations, updating mapping tables, etc.
• Appropriate referral to other teams for support
• System Enhancement activities include:
• Performing unit/regression testing on relevant system enhancement/upgrades or minor changes from vendor, with coordination of end-user testing
• Defining required system enhancements in collaboration with vendor's support and internal users to determine any functional requirements to meet those needs
• New Initiative activities include:
• Creating alignment of policies and procedures across WBD where appropriate, which includes assisting in developing and maintaining project plans, managing stakeholder expectations with product information, assisting in creating and maintaining change management plans, participation in full software development lifecycle, training delivery, etc.
• Other ad-hoc responsibilities as requested

Qualifications & Experience…
• Minimum 2 years of experience in reporting, accounting and/or related field with a system focus
• Previous involvement with Blackline and/or Trintech's Cadency Certification including system administrator experience; SAP experience a plus
• High level understanding of IT systems and controls, project management, systems implementations, and system integration experience and previous experience in system testing
• Ability to work with large volumes of data via Access/Excel using pivot tables, macros, VLookups, If/Then statements, etc.
• Ability to reconcile, present data between multiple systems with distinct designs
• Clear communicator with strong interpersonal skills; customer service oriented with the ability to interact clearly and professionally with a diverse and dispersed global business group; ability to manage senior level stakeholders
• Ability to balance technical skills with business understanding to transform user needs to functional requirements
• Excellent problem-solving skills and able to break down large, complex problems while developing clear step by step solutions
• Proactive, self-starter and team player with the ability to demonstrate initiative
• Ability to work independently, pay close attention to details and organization, meet stringent deadlines, multi-task and work under pressure

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-36vzpx-18-97-14-81-42 in your application.