Director of Financial Systems

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Job Description Summary

This role owns the financial systems landscape the accounting organization runs on, and leads the design, implementation and continuous improvement of those systems. The Director, Financial Systems is accountable for NetSuite, Concur, Celigo, Solution 7 and the financial components of Workday, for the integrity of financial data moving between those platforms and the general ledger, and for the control environment over financial systems. The role serves as project manager for all system-related initiatives across Accounting, is the accounting owner of the AS400 conversion, and leads the company's outside implementation and support consultants. Reporting to the Vice President, Accounting, the Director partners across Accounting, Information Technology, FP&A and the business to deliver systems, automation and process improvement that reduce manual effort, cycle time and risk across the accounting organization. The Director also owns the accounts payable process the role designed and automated, and leads the accounts payable team.

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Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities

- Own the financial systems landscape for Accounting, including NetSuite, Concur, Celigo, Solution 7 and the financial components of Workday, together with the integrations connecting them to operational platforms and the general ledger.

- Serve as project manager for all system-related initiatives across Accounting, covering intake and prioritization, scoping, business case, resourcing, schedule, budget, status reporting, risk and issue management, and post-implementation review.

- Serve as the accounting owner of the AS400 conversion, including requirements definition, data mapping and validation, cutover planning, parallel testing, validation of converted balances and post-conversion stabilization.

- Direct the company's offshore financial systems support capacity, currently CW Global Partners on an hourly as-needed basis and Vincent Cloud under an annual support agreement, covering scope and statements of work, service levels, budget, deliverable quality and escalation.

- Lead financial system implementations, upgrades and integrations end to end: requirements, configuration, user acceptance testing, training, cutover and hypercare.

- Design and build automation that reduces manual effort and cycle time in the close, including automated reconciliations, allocations, recurring entries and management reporting.

- Own the accounts payable process end to end, including the automated workflow the role designed and implemented, exception handling, vendor master governance, and continuous improvement of throughput and accuracy.

- Lead the accounts payable team, including performance management, development, workload prioritization and coverage planning.

- Maintain segregation of duties over disbursements: this role owns accounts payable process, systems and workflow design and supervises accounts payable operations, but does not approve payment runs, which remain the responsibility of Treasury.

- Partner with the corporate and international accounting teams to drive process improvement: map current-state processes, identify manual workarounds and control gaps, redesign the process, and deliver the system or automation change that supports it.

- Establish and track measures of process performance, including cycle time, manual touch points and error rates, and report progress to the Vice President, Accounting.

- Identify and eliminate low-value manual accounting effort, including recurring entries and schedules maintained below the company's materiality thresholds, and align system-driven processes with accounting policy.

- Own the integrity of financial data flowing between operational platforms and the general ledger, including interface design, exce