Sr. Manager Financial Systems - BSC; Hybrid

Senior Manager, Financial Systems

The Senior Manager, Financial Systems is responsible for leading the functional support, administration, governance, and optimization and continuous improvement of the Company's enterprise-wide financial systems. The position serves as a key liaison between Corporate Accounting, Tax and Finance, IT SPP service providers and software vendors to ensure all financial systems effectively support all business teams and their related business processes.

The Senior Manager is responsible for maintaining the integrity and effectiveness of application configuration, financial data, processes, controls, and system-related business operations across the enterprise financial systems portfolio, including Oracle Cloud ERP and EPM, Utilities International, Power Plan, Kyriba, and Cadency.

The position partners closely with IT and third-party service providers while coordinating priorities for functional support, production operations, system releases, and issue resolution. It also maintains Finance ownership of functional requirements, business processes, configuration decisions, testing, and business outcomes.

Financial Systems Leadership and Functional Support

• Lead the functional support and administration of enterprise-wide Finance applications
• Establish priorities and provide leadership to Financial Systems managers, analysts, contractors, and functional support resources responsible for supporting the enterprise Finance community.
• Ensure financial applications are available and effectively support critical business processes, including monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting and financial cycles.
• Oversee resolution and escalation of significant production issues, coordinating with Finance, IT, application vendors, and external support providers as required.
• Ensure appropriate functional ownership and accountability for system configuration, processes, financial data, integrations, and application-related business operations.

Actuals & Planning Business Cycle Support

• Provide leadership and oversight for Financial Systems support of monthly, quarterly, and annual Actuals and Planning activities.
• Coordinate system readiness and support for critical Finance processing schedules and business deadlines.
• Establish appropriate escalation protocols for business-critical application issues and coordinate resolution across Finance, IT, software vendors, and service providers.
• Evaluate recurring production issues and drive sustainable solutions that improve reliability and reduce operational risk.

System Governance, Configuration, Controls and Compliance

• Establish and maintain governance over functional configuration and significant application changes across enterprise Finance applications.
• Ensure appropriate controls exist over financial system configuration, access, data, interfaces, and change management.
• Maintain documentation required to support Sarbanes-Oxley, internal controls, internal and external audit requests, and other applicable regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Accounting, Audit, IT, and system owners to assess and address financial systems risks.
• Ensure system functionality and configuration remain aligned with Finance policies, accounting requirements, and control objectives.

Release Management, Enhancements and Continuous Improvement

• Provide functional governance and oversight for application releases, patches, upgrades, fixes, and enhancements.
• Ensure appropriate impact assessments, regression testing, user acceptance testing, and business validation are completed before production implementation.
• Partner with the Finance COE – Technology and Innovation to alignment on the functional enhancement roadmap and backlog
• Identify opportunities to automate…