Description
Analyze, design, implement, and optimize accounting and ERP systems to ensure accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, and data integrity. Translate finance requirements into scalable configurations and integrations, automate processes, and support audits and regulatory compliance.
- • Define and oversee the scope of system and process audits.
- • Prepare reports on system assessments, control gaps, and remediation.
- • Communicate system performance, data quality, and control results to management; recommend changes.
- • Analyze transactional and master data to detect control failures, duplicates, fraud indicators, or non-compliance.
- • Review accounting workflows and configurations for efficiency and GAAP/policy adherence.
- • Partner with finance, IT, and compliance on regulatory and reporting needs.
- • Evaluate financial systems and recommend control frameworks to ensure reliability, security, and data integrity.
- • Reconcile subledgers, interfaces, and bank files to confirm record accuracy.
- • Conduct walkthroughs and interviews to verify process design and compliance.
- • Build and validate system-generated financial statements and reports.
- • Configure and validate posting rules and system-driven adjusting entries.
- • Investigate account variances; resolve mapping and interface issues.
- • Design and maintain chart of accounts, dimensions, and account mappings.
- • Validate inventory and cost flows across modules for accurate ledger posting.
- • Analyze processes, KPIs, costs, and revenues to inform system requirements and analytics.
- • Deliver dashboards and management reports on financial and operational performance.
- • Develop, implement, test, and document accounting systems and automations.
- • Configure and validate tax engines and indirect tax rules within financial systems.
- • Align system design with organizational objectives and train users on processes and controls.
- • Validate payroll integrations and personnel data for compliant and accurate liabilities.
- • Support audits with system evidence, configurations, logs, and data extracts.
- • Ensure regulatory and reporting compliance via configurations and automated controls.
- • Advise on process improvements, security roles, and long-range data and reporting architecture.
- • Govern financial data and records, including master data stewardship and retention.
- • Lead fit-gap analyses and pre-implementation reviews for new systems or enhancements.
- • Track budgets and benefits for system initiatives; report variances to plan.
- • Streamline period-end close with automated reconciliations, workflows, and task management.
- • Configure and optimize procure-to-pay workflows, including three-way match and payment automation.
- • Profile and reconcile data across assets, liabilities, equity, income, and expenses for accurate consolidation.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
