Manager of Accounting Transformation

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The Manager of Accounting Transformation partners across Accounting, Finance, and Information Technology to deliver close and reconciliation improvements through process redesign and finance system enablement. This individual contributor role, working with other counterparties, focuses on disciplined project delivery requirements, documentation, testing, training, and controls to ensure sustainable adoption of tools such as BlackLine and targeted ERP enhancements.

Essential Functions and Primary Duties

• Serve as a dedicated resource for BlackLine implementation, supporting task management, account reconciliations, and transaction matching capabilities.
• Evaluate and recommend future functionality and modules to advance the accounting transformation roadmap.
• Manage implementation workstreams end-to-end, including project planning, status reporting, risk/issue management, and stakeholder communication.
• Lead process design and documentation, aligning future-state workflows to policy, controls, and close requirements.
• Plan and execute quality control and user acceptance testing (UAT), including test scripts, defect triage, and sign-off coordination.
• Develop and deliver training for end users; create training materials in multiple formats (e.g., written guides, job aids, videos) as needed.
• Define, document, and operationalize procedures and controls to support a controlled go-live and sustainable execution.
• Support final system configuration and issue resolution, partnering with IT/implementation teams to troubleshoot and stabilize functionality prior to go-live.
• Participate in user acceptance testing, including scenario development, execution support, and defect management.
• Contribute to training material development and end-user enablement for new processes and system changes.
• Support control design and pre go-live testing to ensure appropriate governance and compliance readiness.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting accounting systems and/or close process transformation initiatives.
• Working knowledge of account reconciliation processes and close controls; ability to translate accounting requirements into scalable workflows.
• Project management capability, including workplan development, stakeholder alignment, and delivery of milestones in a timeline-driven environment.
• Hands-on experience with testing disciplines (QC/UAT), documentation, and change management/training for process or system deployments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across Accounting, Finance, and Information Technology teams.
• Experience implementing or administering BlackLine (Task Management, Reconciliations, Matching) or similar close automation tools.
• Exposure to Oracle financial systems, including ledger configuration concepts and international ledger considerations.
• Experience designing and documenting procedures/controls and supporting control testing in advance of go-live.
• Ability to create effective training content in multiple formats (written guides, job aids, videos).
• Experience with ERP enhancements impacting close/reconciliation processes (e.g., ledger changes, integrations, reporting).
• Familiarity with process governance and internal controls in a regulated or audit environment.
• Experience using project tools and documentation standards to manage requirements, decisions, and testing evidence.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field preferred

• Or High School Diploma (or GED) and 7 years of experience in relevant field

• Must have and preserve required licenses

• Proficient use of applicable technology

• Demonstrated ability to communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of an organization, both internally and externally

• Ability to travel as required by business