Supervisor - Accounting Automation Analysis

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Utilize strong accounting and/or finance skills and technology acumen to help drive process improvements across the accounting organization through the use of automation. Supervise a team of automation analysts within the Accounting Automation team. Utilize significant accounting experience with SAP and a demonstrated ability to drive change through process improvements or automation. Utilize ability to analyze and document an existing manual business process and to re-imagine the process as predominantly automated, challenging existing processes where applicable. Work across departments with particular focus on the intersection of the accounting and IT groups. Work very closely with the Accounting Automation Specialist role to develop, test, and later administer process automations and related applications. Supervise team of Automation Analysts. Supervise the documentation of legacy as is process flows of targeted manual accounting processes, or critically examine and modify as necessary existing process flow diagrams. Help identify and document business requirements for to be automated accounting processes. Dialogue with the Automation Specialist team and accounting subject matter experts to resolve any questions related to process flows, either as is or to be. Help administer and monitor project plans related to process automation builds. Help administer user acceptance testing of process automations including the following features/tools: Redwood Finance Process Automation (RunMyFinance), Alteryx, Ui-Path (in coordination with IT Ui-Path resources), SAP. Supervise the testing of security roles within the automation application with IT security and Business Analyst teams. Supervise the development of user training materials and desktop procedures with business subject matter experts in preparation for production deployments of any process automation builds. Supervise user training activities where needed. Monitor, troubleshoot and help maintain process automation builds once deployed to production. Supervise the administration of ETL activities related to process automations and related applications, including the development and execution of quality control activities. Help administer regression tests for process automations when there are system upgrades impacting the automations.

Education and/or Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The requirements for this position are listed below:

Education Required : Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business/Management with a concentration in Finance or Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field, or foreign equivalent.

Experience Required : 8 years of experience with finance/accounting business practices and principles.

8 years inclusive experience with SAP FICO.

2 years inclusive experience in wholesale accounting.

Special Requirements : 1 SAP S4 HANA full project life cycle implementation.