Lead Accounting SME- CIS

Largeton Inc; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Largeton Inc. is seeking a Lead Accounting SME to drive the CIS implementation in Philadelphia, PA, onsite.

The role acts as the functional authority for accounting and financial processes across the project lifecycle, including requirements, design, configuration, testing, data conversion, training, cutover, and stabilization. The SME will bring extensive Basis2 knowledge, and fluency in how customer billing, payments, and general ledger activities support water revenue operations.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of Basis2 accounting processes.
• Experience with customer billing and payments.
• Understanding of general ledger and financial integration.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Accounting representative for the CIS implementation.
• Provide functional expertise regarding Basis2 accounting processes.
• Define and validate future-state accounting workflows and system functionality.
• Review functional requirements, design documents, configuration workbooks, and business process documentation.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and streamline accounting processes with minimal customizations.
• Collaborate with Finance, Billing, Collections, IT, and vendor teams.
• Participate in system configuration workshops and design sessions.
• Validate configurations for compliance with City accounting policies and standards.
• Support data cleansing, data validation, and financial data conversion activities.
• Validate interfaces, payment settlement, reconciliation and GL postings.
• Assist in developing training materials and end-user documentation.
• Support cutover planning, production readiness, hyper care, and post-go-live issue resolution.

Skills

Accounting knowledge

Basis2 accounting

Tools

Basis2

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Lead Accounting SME- CIS
Loc:: Philadelphia, PA onsite relocation is fine
Dur: 6 months
LinkedIn: Yes, and any utility exp required.

The Lead Accounting Subject Matter Expert (SME) serves as the functional authority for accounting and financial business processes throughout the CIS implementation. This individual will represent the Water Revenue Bureau's (WRB) Accounting Division during all phases of the project, including statement of work requirements, solution design, configuration, testing, data conversion, training, cutover planning, and post-go-live stabilization.

The SME is expected to possess extensive knowledge of the City's current Basis2 accounting processes and understand how customer billing, payments, financial transactions, and general ledger activities support the City's water revenue operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary Accounting representative for the CIS implementation project
• Provide functional expertise regarding current Basis2 accounting processes and business rules
• Define and validate future-state accounting workflows and system functionality
• Review and validate functional requirements, design documents, configuration workbooks, and business process documentation
• Identify opportunities to standardize, streamline, and improve accounting processes while minimizing customizations
• Collaborate with Finance, Customer Service, Billing, Collections, Payment Operations, IT, and vendor implementation teams
• Participate in system configuration workshops and design sessions
• Validate accounting-related system configurations and ensure compliance with City accounting policies and governmental accounting standards
• Support data cleansing, data validation, and financial data conversion activities
• Validate financial interfaces, payment settlement processing, reconciliation processes, and General Ledger postings
• Assist in developing training materials, standard operating procedures, and end-user documentation
• Support cutover planning, production readiness, hyper care, and post-go-live issue resolution.

Work Activities and Essential Functions:
The Lead Accounting Subject Matter Expert (SME) will perform the following activities in support of the Customer Information System (CIS) implementation:

Billing & Revenue Accounting

• Validate current and future-state billing and revenue accounting processes
• Review billing transactions, revenue recognition, and financial impacts
• Validate billing adjustments, reversals, cancel/rebill processing, and account corrections
• Verify billing calculations, meter read impacts, and billing exception processing
• Ensure accounting requirements are accurately reflected in the configured solution

Payment Processing & Settlement

• Validate payment processing across all payment channels, including ACH, lockbox, credit/debit card, and electronic payments
• Review payment settlement and reconciliation processes
• Validate returned payments, reversals, refunds, and adjustment processing
• Verify daily balancing, settlement, and cash reconciliation functionality
• Validate payment processing interfaces and related financial transactions

Accounts Receivable

• Validate customer accounts receivable balances and financial transactions
• Review processing for credits, refunds, write-offs, adjustments, and payment applications
• Validate collections-related accounting transactions and financial impacts
• Verify aging calculations, receivable balances, and financial reporting
• Ensure accounts receivable transactions are processed accurately throughout the customer lifecycle

General Ledger & Financial Integration

• Validate General Ledger posting logic and accounting distributions