Finance & Business Management Associate

Join the Strategic Accounting Infrastructure and Control (SAIC) Team who is responsible for the analysis and execution of financial accounting architecture changes, supporting Financial Control, Asset Class Control, and Product Control (Finance Organization).  The projects range from production remediations and industry/LOB initiatives to large-scale, multi-year strategic initiatives to replace entire product systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide and document detailed accounting requirements for finance organization adhering to US and local GAAP
• Liaise with controllers organization to document requirements and pain points to include in design accounting architecture design
• Work closely with operations support areas to ensure requirements align and met between both organizations
• Work closely with technology developing logic to meet finance requirements
• Ensure strategic infrastructure design meets Finance Principles and Big Rules established
• Analyze controls to ensure the strategic infrastructure operates within a solid control environment- including identifying any opportunities for process and control improvements
• Write and execute UAT test cases; participate in E2E, production parallel and conversion testing
• Liaise with PMO and assist with overall governance
• Communicate updates to finance stakeholders and engage for review and design decision throughout the project lifecycle.

Required qualifications, skills and capabilities:

• Must be a self-starter who is able to work in a fast paced, results driven environment.  
• 2-4 years finance experience.  Preferred experience as controller or accounting/general ledger support function
• Understanding of general ledger and accounting functions and processes
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills including root cause analysis and ability to provide solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; strong presentation skills
• Attention to detail and ability to work independently
• Organized and self-motivated
• Strong multitasking and prioritizing skills
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Strong working knowledge of MS Excel (Pivot tables, v-lookups). PowerPoint and Word