Location: Markham, Ontario
Job Description:
Job Summary
The Manager, Financial Systems will be responsible for supporting the financial systems used by the finance and accounting teams including providing user support, delivering enhancements and leading/participating on related system projects. They will support the end-users and work with stakeholders to ensure end-to-end processes and information are flowing efficiently and accurately. They will also have the opportunity to support any new system implementation projects including designing processes, completing requirement gathering and testing. This role will report to the Senior Manager, Financial Systems.
18-Month Contract
Compensation: $100k-130k + Benefits
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for supporting the finance users with finance systems including with financial ERP system (Navision) and the budgeting & forecasting tools (Adaptive Financial Planning) as it relates to access administration, integration, report and application development and maintenance.
- Responsible for maintenance and integration mapping of AFP (Adaptive Financial Planning) ensuring General Ledger Account, Level and Dimension Setup are in sync with financial system (NAV).
- Support various projects including new system implementations, enhancements including but not limited to requirement gathering, design, UAT testing, post go-live support, training and documentation.
- Manages the integrity and accuracy of information in various systems/reports.
- Provides finance business operational support (i.e. month-end, year-end).
- Ensure integration and error handling between finance systems are remediated in a timely manner.
- Support compliance with the internal control environment in relation to IT systems controls including by maintaining all related policies and performing user roles reviews.
- Liaise with external auditors and are responsible for providing all systems requirements.
- Maintain ongoing relationships and communication with IT for any troubleshooting in existing systems, new builds, and ensuring finance and accounting requirements are carried out/configured by IT as needed.
- Identify areas of improvement within the processes and systems
- Works closely with all stakeholders/business teams (e.g. cross functional business teams, external partners and vendors) to establish, maintain and strengthen relationships regarding operational issues or improvements.
Skills, Experience, Education, Certifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business Information Systems or related field
- Experience working with FP&A reporting tools, AFP preferred.
- Experience in working with large ERP systems such as MS Dynamics, SAP, or Oracle
- 5 years of relevant experience including project management, financial systems implementation
- Experience in developing and understanding internal controls and/or designing access & controls.
- Understanding of accounting and finance processes including day-to-day processes and month-end
- Experience working with FP&A reporting tools, AFP preferred.
- Strong interpersonal and oral/written/presentation skills.
Competencies
- Excellent communication skills – be able to collaborate and communicate clearly with multiple stakeholders including IT, accounting and finance, external consults, project team etc.
- Problem solving and identifications – the ability to identify system issues in various stages of a project and work together with team to understand the issue to solution.
- Project management skills – ability to prioritize and organize tasks with competing deadlines and communicate any resource constraints.
- Attention to detail –certain tests and documentation need to be analyzed at the transactional level; candidate must be able to drill down to the details.
- Technical knowledge - ability to understand data flow between systems and tables and the finance impact to general ledger and reporting.