Senior Specialist, Financial Systems

TEEMA; North Vancouver; On-site; CAD 112,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Specialist in Financial Systems to oversee financial data governance and support reporting initiatives. This role requires significant experience in finance and IT, along with a Bachelor's degree and CPA designation. The successful candidate will manage complex projects and provide leadership to ensure compliance with financial standards across the organization.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years’ experience in Finance and Accounting.
• Expert knowledge in Canadian ASPE, GAAP.
• 3 years leading finance or IT teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee data hierarchy and ensure standardization.
• Support audit needs and financial data integrity.
• Lead implementation of new financial programs.

Skills

Leadership

Data management

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA

CPA (CA, CMA, CGA)

Tools

Oracle Cloud

SAP Business Objects

Crystal Reports

Job description

Job Title:Senior Specialist, Financial Systems
Job ID:80735
Location:Vancouver, British Columbia

What you must have:

• 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.

• Optimize the company’s ERP system and seeking to improve business processes.

• Works collaboratively with other company businesses (e.g. Marine Group) 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 must have:

• 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.

• 5 years’ experience managing projects is preferred.

• Minimum 3 years leading a team of finance, accounting and/or information technology professionals.

Salary/Rate Range: $112,000.00 – $137,300.00

For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website atwww.teemagroup.com