Financial Systems Senior Manager; Oracle Cloud ERP

Financial Systems Senior Manager (Oracle Cloud ERP)

Join to apply for the Financial Systems Senior Manager (Oracle Cloud ERP) role at BDO USA.

The Financial Systems Senior Manager (FS Senior Manager) oversees and manages a team providing business support, reporting and analytic solutions for the effective use of financial systems and business process integrations that support the business functions of the organization. These include managing strategic investments in long range system planning, successful system project completions and proactively transferring system knowledge to the financial system team and enterprise wide system business owners.

The FS Senior Manager proactively implements and proposes financial system initiatives and solutions to business issues that results in organization system efficiency, while adhering to overall system standards and strategy. This role drives as well as participates in the growth of cross functional business owners and managers, resulting in a strong foundation of business owners by functional area. This role contributes to financial system strategies, and proactively engages with cross functional area teams and management to implement strategies.

This role also contributes to the general business planning regarding technology and systems required to maintain a market competitiveness. This position is critical in facilitating accurate, reliable and efficient financial reporting, metrics, dashboards and analysis by effectively using various financial systems to support financial and management reporting, metrics and analysis and promoting data integrity. The FS Senior Manager is a critical contributor during implementation of financial systems, upgrades or driving new functionality that derives efficiency in the business, with a specific focus on automation, analytics and interfaces with other systems.

Post implementation, the FS Senior Manager continues to lead and participate in system support and leverage integrated finance system tools.

• Participates in the evaluation of software and hardware products for potential purchase and implementation based on analyzing business problems and assessing how technology can be used to solve the business problems
• Determines the resources needed to plan and implement financial system solutions, collaborates with end users and provides software suggestions and recommendations to business owners and management to assist in their understanding of potential limitations and challenges
• Manages projects effectively, including directing the day-to-day tasks and activities of cross functional teams, tracking and reporting project tasks, project scope, priorities and deadlines and deliverables schedules
• Ensures documentation is developed to meet project deliverables and schedules
• Manages, monitors and effectively communicates project budgets, including tracking of internal costs as well as third party vendor costs
• Supervises, coaches and mentors Financial Systems Manager (FS Manager) or Analyst (FS Analyst), and patriciates in the resolution of third-party support issues, including but not limited to budgets and updates to ensure the Firm's business processes are represented and will not be broken
• Leads the gathering of functional requirements for approved projects, collaborates with business owners to define business requirements in business acumen and translates requirements into functional technical specifications
• Accurately formulates and defines the objectives and scope of business systems, and assesses the risks of the development of financial system solutions
• Makes recommendations and presentations to senior management in order to gain support of new projects and applications, prepares for and participates in presentations to business owners seeking new technology within financial system solutions
• Provides leadership and project management for the functional set up of business applications, including system updates, upgrades and the implementation of new applications
• Ensures there is effective communication from business acumen translation to technical/functional acumen to meet business requirements
• Leads FS Manager or FS Analyst in the successful resolution of complex transactional issues, including performing research, identifying root cause and using data integrity reports and other information provided by business owners
• Leads and manages the deployment of existing finance systems to other firms, promoting one unified system
• Actively coordinates, participates and manages problem resolution related to disaster recovery, reporting and dashboards
• Communicates financial system vernacular into meaningful business acumen with business owners, management and executives
• Collaborates with management across the organization to understand business owner’s workstream system gaps, as well as identify and prioritize system gaps between the firm’s current state and industry best practices
• Documents and shares financial system…