ERP Finance Architect: CoA & GL Design (Hybrid)

Vaco; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco in Nashville, TN is seeking an experienced ERP Finance Architect to lead the design and modernization of a enterprise-wide Chart of Accounts (CoA) and General Ledger (GL) as part of a large ERP transformation.

This senior contract role requires hands-on CoA redesign experience, deep GL architecture knowledge, and the ability to drive stakeholder workshops, document decisions, and coordinate across finance, data conversion, and ERP workstreams.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of experience in ERP financial systems, financial systems architecture, enterprise accounting architecture, or ERP financial management.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing a complex, enterprise-wide Chart of Accounts.
• Leadership on at least one Chart of Accounts redesign or ERP financial transformation.
• Strong understanding of General Ledger architecture and financial reporting.
• Experience translating business and reporting requirements into account structures, segments, hierarchies, financial dimensions, and accounting rules.
• Experience with governmental fund accounting and GASB standards.
• Experience working within complex, multi-entity, multi-agency, or similarly large organizational environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy and design of a future-state enterprise Chart of Accounts and General Ledger architecture.
• Develop and manage the CoA design approach, milestones, dependencies, and key decisions.
• Assess current CoA structures, account usage, reporting requirements, internal controls, and organizational variations.
• Translate financial and reporting requirements into CoA segments, hierarchies, accounting rules, and financial dimensions.
• Prepare and facilitate CoA design workshops with Finance and ERP stakeholders.
• Develop design alternatives and guide stakeholders through complex financial architecture decisions.
• Maintain design decisions, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Coordinate CoA decisions across financial reporting, business processes, data conversion, integrations, and other ERP workstreams.
• Document approved designs and recommendations for future ERP configuration.

Skills

ERP Financial Systems

Financial Architecture

CoA/GL design

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Workshop Facilitation

Job description

Vaco in Nashville, TN is seeking an experienced ERP Finance Architect to lead the design and modernization of a enterprise-wide Chart of Accounts (CoA) and General Ledger (GL) as part of a large ERP transformation.

This senior contract role requires hands-on CoA redesign experience, deep GL architecture knowledge, and the ability to drive stakeholder workshops, document decisions, and coordinate across finance, data conversion, and ERP workstreams.