Summary:

This position works within the Transformation and Integration Department of Corporate Accounting.  This department is tasked with moving our Accounting Group from a Data Mining Model to a Technology Driven Model allowing us to provide value to other departments by focusing on analysis and timely ad hoc reporting.  This is done by identifying processes with high manual effort, high error rates, and/or inefficiencies and working with accounting teams to move manual processes to automated solutions.  Additionally, we coordinate the needs of the Accounting Group with regards to mergers and acquisitions ensuring timely and efficient transition of data and processes. 

This position offers a industry leading compensation, benefits, 401(k) match, profit sharing, and generous PTO.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 
**Lists duties and responsibilities in rank of importance or time spent doing each job duty. Must constitute at least 5% of an incumbent’s time.

·         Participate in project planning sessions with business leaders and project team members

·         Coordinate meetings between project stakeholders, IT, and/or third parties in ad-hoc or cadence sessions to ensure project timeline integrity

  ·         Ability to develop Alteryx, Power BI, Power Automate and/or Databricks workflows or solutions and develop and maintain a high level of competency in this applications.

  ·         Ability to mentor Alteryx developers and oversee developer projects for completeness.

·         Assist with managing the project plan, project schedule, risk and issues logs and status reports

·         Facilitate productive meetings by ensuring engagement from attendees, preparing necessary support documentation, and following up with meeting notes and action items

·         Following up on pending project tasks or issues and escalate for resolution with an action plan where necessary

·         Manage, engage, and collaborate with cross functional teams for project closure

·         Ability to support multiple projects simultaneously within the project life cycle

·         Develop and maintain current knowledge and understanding of accounting systems and data transformation applications and introduce users to new functionality

·         Create presentations to onboard cross-functional teams with a unified vision and address key points of the transformational initiative

·         Develop and deploy wide-ranging departmental communications, change management and training tactical plans to ensure employee adoption and satisfaction with organizational changes as well as keeping people updated on the departments progress towards its goals

·         Remain flexible and adaptable to changing circumstances

Requirements:
Education and/or Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The requirements for this position are listed below:

·         Understanding the project life cycle from project creation to project closure

·         Exposure to departmental communications and change management principles, approaches, tools and techniques to properly disseminate the information for the desired outcome

·         Strong oral, written and presentation skills

·         Strong problem solving and analytical skills

·         Ability to influence others towards a common goal or vision

·         Must be able to work collaboratively with project managers, business owners and all levels of management, as well as thrive in a cross functional environment

·         Knowledge of SAP ERP software + project management tools and methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Jira, SharePoint, Visio, SmartSheets, etc.)

·         Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Information Systems, Data Science or related field

Required experience is commensurate with the selected job level:

·         Lead Specialist level requires a bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant job-related experience

·         Senior Specialist level requires a bachelor’s degree and 5-8 years of relevant job-related experience

·         Specialist level requires a bachelor’s degree and 2-5 years of relevant job-related experience

·         Associate Specialist requires bachelor’s degree and 0-2 years of relevant job-related experience

Preferred Qualifications:

·         Experience with Accounting Software solutions with emphasis on SAP

·         Experience with Data Analytics tools (Like Alteryx, Redwood, UI Path, Power BI, etc.)

·         Knowledge of RightAngle, Apttus, SAP, Enfos, Quorum is helpful

·         Knowledge of coding language(s) such as VBA , SQL, Python

Working Conditions:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

·         Usually, normal office working conditions. 

·         Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time due to prolonged periods of sitting or standing. 

·         Occasional overnight travel may be required. 

·         Occasional visits to industrial/manufacturing settings, which may include exposure to various materials and chemicals, as well as extreme temperature conditions and loud machinery, and require appropriate personal protective equipment.