Senior Financial Systems Lead

Senior Financial Systems Lead The Senior Financial Systems Lead serves as the senior functional and technical lead for the organization's Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) platforms (currently Hyperion and moving to One Stream), supporting platform governance, administration, and continuous improvement. This role helps execute the Finance Systems operating model for our EPM standards and priorities and provides technical guidance and mentorship to Finance Systems team members.

The position partners across Finance, Accounting, FP&A, Internal Controls, and IT, as well as implementation partners, to support a reliable close, consolidation, reporting, planning, and forecasting processes.

This role is located at our Arden Hills Corporate Headquarters (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in office each week)
Duty or Area of Responsibility:

EPM Platform Lead, Administration & Governance:
Lead the business administration and support model for our new EPM, One Stream rollout and legacy Hyperion applications, including HFM, FDMEE, Essbase, and Planning. Establish platform standards, governance, security administration, metadata management, integration oversight, monitoring, issue management, release coordination, upgrades, and audit-ready controls. Provide technical direction, coaching, and mentorship to Finance Systems resources supporting EPM administration and project activities.

Financial Systems Transformation:
Serve as the Finance Systems lead for future-state One Stream capabilities. Partner with the Business Lead on requirements, solution design, testing strategy, deployment readiness, change management, knowledge transfer, and post-go-live stabilization. Assist with translating Finance priorities into a sequenced enhancement roadmap and lead continuous improvements across the financial systems team.

Financial Systems Optimization & Solution Delivery:
Support the governance, optimization, and delivery of enterprise financial systems through standards, procedures, and best practices aligned with business and technology priorities. Drive automation, reporting modernization, data governance, and process improvement initiatives using One Stream, Hyperion, and Snowflake to enhance business insights and operational efficiency.

Planning, Forecasting & Reporting Enablement:
Provide leadership for the administration and advancement of budgeting, forecasting, planning, and management reporting capabilities. Partner with FP&A to prioritize enhancements, maintain scalable models and business rules, and align future One Stream capabilities.

Training, Documentation, Controls & Team Enablement:
Define administration procedures, controls documentation and support models. Lead end-user training, administrator knowledge transfer, and development of support materials. Mentor Finance Systems team members, promote technical skill development, and foster knowledge sharing to build long-term organizational capability and support succession planning.

Required Experience/Knowledge/

Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Minimum 6 years of progressive experience in Finance Systems, EPM administration, financial technology support, or related Finance roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading administration, governance, or business ownership of Hyperion, One Stream or a comparable EPM platform.
• Strong knowledge of financial close, consolidation, reporting, planning, forecasting, general ledger concepts, SOX controls, and Finance transformation.
• Proven ability to lead complex system enhancements, cross-functional projects, solution decisions, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement.$93,360-$140,040.  In most cases, candidates offered employment can expect…