Financial Systems Specialist

Lynn Rodens; North Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic company is seeking a Financial Systems Specialist to manage and enhance financial systems across multiple business units. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in finance and accounting, with a strong understanding of ERP systems and a proven ability to lead improvements. Join this organization to contribute to key initiatives that drive operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 7 years of work experience in Finance, Accounting or IT.
• Expert knowledge in Canadian ASPE, GAAP.
• Experience in data management and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Manage and enhance financial systems, support business needs.
• Design and maintain financial reports, ensure data integrity.
• Oversee data hierarchies and user security model.

Skills

Data management

Reporting

Project management

System implementations

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

CPA (CA, CMA, CGA)

Tools

Oracle Cloud

SAP Business Objects

Crystal Reports

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The Senior Specialist, Financial Systems is responsible for managing and enhancing financial systems to support organizational goals across all three Shipyards’ operating businesses, functions for the ERP and related financial systems. The Senior Specialist, Financial Systems is responsible for assessing business needs, reviewing system and process controls and recommending and documenting business requirements with technical options and solutions, trouble-shooting technology issues. This includes supporting users with the various business systems, facilitating workshops, end-user training, and generating and rolling out process and procedure manuals and user learning guides.

Note: This position qualifies for an optional hybrid work schedule after 90 days of onsite work and onboarding. Employee will be subject to the terms of the Flexible Work Policy Agreement.

What You’ll Do

Oversee, maintains and governs the data hierarchies and set-up procedures within the financial system, ensuring standardization across all operating companies.

Identifies and supports continuous improvement initiatives to enhance systems and align with organizational goals.

Supports redesign and change initiatives.

Designs and maintains standard financial reports, works across business areas to document reporting requirements, analyze requirements and create solutions to fit end user needs.

Works closely with financial reporting team on monthly, quarterly and annually close processes. Supports audit needs related to financial data.

Runs periodic procedures to test financial system controls and ensure data integrity in the general ledger.

Works closely with Information Technology support to ensure system settings and configurations are maintained and relevant as business needs change.

Optimizes companys ERP system and seeking to improve business processes.

Works collaboratively with other businesses to promote cooperation between finance teams and to ensure shared planning, execution, and data-driven decision making.

Build data models and act as single point of contact for data structures within ERP/ Power BI systems, for finance and accounting.

Validate and maintain automatic accounting instructions (AAI’s) against accounting standards and system processes.

Manage and maintain the user security model, triage requests for role changes and ensure integrity of segregation of duties.

Ability to define requirements, develop a business case, build a project plan, and lead the implementation of new programs that may run across the organization. This includes system upgrades, rollout of training tools, etc.

Provide leadership and technical expertise on the cross-over between accounting and financial systems.

Develop, maintain and execute an end-user training model for accounting users.

What You’ll Bring

Bachelor’s degree required.

MBA is desirable.

Professional designation CPA (CA, CMA, CGA) is required.

Experience with Oracle Cloud desirable.

Minimum 7 years’ work experience in a business environment; in Finance and Accounting or Information Technology. This includes experience in reporting, data management, system implementations and/or upgrades, project management, and reports writing (SAP Business Objects, Crystal Reports, etc.).

Expert knowledge in Canadian ASPE, GAAP and related financial reporting requirements.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

• Industries

  Information Services

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