Sr. Manager, Financial Systems

Business Unit:

Cubic Corporation

Company Details:

Cubic offers an opportunity to provide innovative technology for government and commercial customers around the globe, helping to solve their future problems today. We're the leading integrator of payment and information technology and services for intelligent travel solutions worldwide, and the leading provider of realistic combat training systems, secure communications and networking and highly specialized support services for military and security forces of the U.S. and allied nations. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and thrive in an innovative environment, we want to talk to you about your next role at Cubic! We are seeking employees inspired by technology, and motivated by the rewards of hard work, commitment, teamwork, quality, integrity, and respect. We invite you to explore opportunities with Cubic.

Job Details:

Job Summary: Manages and conducts the analysis of business processes affecting financial accounting functions. In coordination with IT Department, plans and implements process improvement projects to improve the efficiency and quality of service provided by the Accounting Department, including transaction processing, data management and reporting. Uses experience and expertise to design new solutions to problems. Represents the Financial Accounting Department on ERP implementations. This position typically works under limited supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manages the implementation of new financial accounting software applications including planning and scheduling of tasks in coordination with IT Department.
• Has ownership of complex master data objects in ERP system.
• Designs processes to resolve issues, meet new requirements, or introduce efficiencies.
• Documents procedures within the Accounting Department.
• Analyzes business processes affecting the accounting function and plans process improvement projects in conjunction with other departments involved in the process. This includes flowcharting where necessary and making recommendations for improvement, including the elimination of redundancy and errors and streamlining of the closing cycle.
• Trains users of financial accounting systems. This includes users who make direct entries to the system(s) and indirect users who consume outputs.
• Participates in designing the creation of new accounting reports where needed in support of all financial system users.
• Supervises Financial Systems Analysts and other contributors both on and offshore in the accomplishment of above tasks within a matrix organization environment.
• Supports users by resolving problems both directly and through the ticket tracking system.

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Four-year college degree, or equivalent, in finance/accounting or equivalent
• Minimum of eight years experience in a financial accounting environment including implementation or upgrade of financial accounting systems
• Certified Public Accountant or Masters in Business Administration preferred
• Five years or more of experience with SAP preferred
• Thorough working knowledge of financial applications, interfacing between applications, data structure and retrieval
• Ability to prioritize tasks, handle multiple projects and work under deadlines Ability to work at a computer for extended periods of time
• Top Secret Security Clearance strongly preferred

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.
Worker Type:

Employee