Director, Accounting Ops

Arclin•Alpharetta, GA

7h•Onsite

About The Position

We are a rapidly growing, $3B global chemical manufacturing company headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. From building products to agricultural applications and more, we are applying advanced technology to solve complex product and environmental performance challenges. As we embark on our next phase of scale, we are intentionally building a world-class financial infrastructure. We are currently seeking a transformative leader to modernize our financial systems and data architecture. Reporting directly to the Chief Accounting Officer (CAO), the Director of Accounting Operations & Systems is the architectural backbone of our financial technology landscape. As we transition from four disparate legacy ERP systems into a greenfield SAP S/4HANA environment, this leader will own the administration of our financial systems, lead Global Master Data Governance, and drive our FinTech automation strategy. The Financial Systems Director leads the strategy, governance, and operational excellence of all financial systems. This role ensures seamless integrations across platforms, enforces data and control standards, and drives continuous improvement in partnership with Finance, IT, and business process owners. The director owns the financial master data framework and ensures SOX‑aligned IT GRC controls are consistently designed, implemented, and monitored. Crucially, this Director serves as the ultimate systems owner and expert for the accounting organization. When financial integrations fail, automated workflows break, or data does not sync properly across the enterprise landscape, this leader acts as the senior diagnostic authority to resolve the root cause. While the day-to-day transactional execution of Procure-to-Pay (PTP), Order-to-Cash (OTC), and Global Payroll will be managed by our Shared Services organization, this Director will own the underlying system configurations, administrative controls, and data integrity that enable those operations to scale seamlessly.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field.
An active CPA license is required.
10+ years of progressive experience in accounting operations, shared services, or financial systems.
Proven operational accounting expertise with a demonstrated aptitude for diagnosing and fixing complex system logic.
Deep, hands-on experience administering financial tools such as Workday, OpenText, Concur, BlackLine, OneStream, Kyriba and others.
Prior experience navigating complex, multi-ERP environments such as JD Edwards and SAP S/4HANA.
Prior experience overseeing or heavily interacting with Master Data governance.
Strong understanding of internal controls, system access governance, and the rigorous audit standards required for a major global enterprise.
Exceptional cross-functional partnership skills; the ability to act as the technical enabler and rapid problem-solver for the Shared Services and General Ledger teams.

Responsibilities

Own the global system administration for all critical financial tools, specifically managing the administrators for Workday, OpenText, Concur T&E, BlackLine, OneStream, Kyriba, and lease accounting systems.
Act as the senior escalation point to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex system integration failures between our operational tools (e.g., OpenText invoice ingestion, Workday payroll feeds) and the general ledger.
Manage user access, permissions, and security protocols across all financial operations tools, establishing robust IT General Controls (ITGC) and Segregation of Duties (SoD).
Develop and execute the multi‑year financial systems roadmap aligned with Finance, IT, and business strategy.
Ensure system scalability, standardization, and harmonization across global entities.
Build and lead the enterprise Master Data function, serving as the ultimate authority on financial data integrity.
Establish strict governance and standard operating procedures for the creation and maintenance of the Chart of Accounts, Vendor Master, Customer Master, and Material Master ensuring consistent data definitions and usage across all ERP environments.
Lead the complex data mapping, cleansing, and validation strategy required to migrate corrupted or duplicated master data from legacy systems into a harmonized SAP environment.
Lead integration strategy and execution across all financial platforms, ensuring end‑to‑end data flow, process alignment, and architectural consistency.
Oversee API, middleware, and interface governance to maintain reliable, secure, and SOX‑compliant integrations.
Ensure ERP systems integrate seamlessly with Kyriba, BlackLine, OneStream, Workiva, Concur, OpentText, lease accounting and other systems.
Partner with IT to evaluate new technologies, manage upgrades, and optimize system performance.
Partner with the system users to ensure tools are configured to support highly efficient, automated transactional workflows. Working with IT and software vendors to implement enhancements and improvements to enable business requirements.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives and reduce cycle times across the accounting organization.
Serve as the operational Subject Matter Expert (SME) for financial systems architecture during the greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementation.
Design standardized, highly efficient global workflows within SAP to replace fragmented regional processes.
Oversee IT General Controls (ITGCs) and application controls for all financial systems.
Ensure compliance with SOX, internal audit requirements, and corporate IT risk frameworks.
Partner with Internal Audit, IT Security, and Compliance to maintain strong control environments and remediate findings.
Act as the primary liaison between Finance and IT for system architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and change management.
Coordinate project prioritization, resource planning, and release management with IT leadership.
Ensure alignment between financial process requirements and technical execution.
Lead and develop a team of system administrators, analysts, and process owners across Finance and IT.
Manage relationships with software vendors, implementation partners, and managed service providers.
Oversee support models, SLAs, ticketing, and issue resolution processes.
Drive automation, standardization, and process optimization across the financial systems landscape.
Lead system enhancements, new module deployments, and global rollouts.
Champion user training, adoption, and change management.