Finance Systems Manager

Role Summary

The Finance Systems Manager is responsible for owning, supporting, and optimizing the company’s finance and accounting systems, with a primary focus on SAP S/4HANA. This role partners closely with Accounting, FP&A, and IT to ensure financial systems accurately support accounting operations, financial close, reporting, and internal controls while driving continuous improvement and systems optimization. The ideal candidate brings a strong combination of accounting knowledge, systems expertise, and cross functional collaboration to help drive system reliability, process efficiency, and data integrity to support business growth.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary finance systems lead for SAP S/4HANA and other core finance and accounting systems
• Own finance master data governance, including Chart of Accounts, company codes, profit centers, cost centers, and business partners
• Partner with Accounting to support month-end close and financial reporting processes
• Coordinate system enhancements, configuration changes, and issue resolution with IT and external SAP partners
• Translate accounting and business requirements into functional system solutions
• Ensure system configuration aligns with accounting policies and business requirements
• Develop and maintain system documentation, controls, and process flows to support SOX compliance
• Support testing, validation, and deployment of SAP releases, upgrades, and new functionality
• Provide user support, training, and process guidance to finance stakeholders
• Support financial reporting, ad hoc analysis, and audit requests
• Support new entity setup, reorganizations, and system-related accounting changes as needed
• Lead or support finance system projects and continuous improvement initiatives
• Perform other projects as assigned

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems or related field
• Required: 5+ years of experience in accounting systems, finance systems, or ERP support
• Required: Deep SAP S/4HANA FICO knowledge and hands-on experience with configuration and master data
• Preferred: Experience supporting multi-entity and multi-currency environments
• Preferred: Experience in a SOX-controlled environment
• Preferred: Advanced Excel skills; experience with reporting tools is a plus
• Preferred: Experience with accounting and finance systems such as FloQast, AuditBoard, Adaptive Insights, Concur, Alteryx, etc. is a plus

Skills

• Knowledge of relevant systems
• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, etc.
• Demonstrated skills in project and program management
• Demonstrated complex problem-solving ability and sound judgement
• Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and collaborate to resolve issues
• Highly organized, results-driven, problem solver
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across levels of management

Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Additional Requirements

• 10% travel