Finance Systems Manager

Bridgestone Americas•Nashville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Finance Systems Manager will lead finance systems, reporting, and data solutions supporting Bridgestone Retail Operations Finance and Field Operations. The role focuses on modernizing reporting platforms, production support, data governance, and cross-functional system changes. It serves as a bridge among Finance, Operations, Accounting, and technology teams, balancing business usability, financial integrity, system reliability, and data governance. The position is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and involves partnering with IT and business teams to improve system stability, resolve data and support issues, address root causes, support audit and compliance activities, and translate technical changes into business impacts and recommendations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Computer Science, or a related field.
At least 5 years of relevant experience with financial systems and reporting, data governance, reporting controls, and data-access practices.
2–3 years of experience leading a team with direct reports.
Experience translating business requirements and performing root-cause analysis.
Experience managing production issues and analyzing cross-system dependencies.
Experience leading system or process changes, assessing risk, and translating technical issues into business terms for finance and operational stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Lead modernization of finance reporting, including migration to Power BI solutions and consolidation toward a primary reporting platform; govern reporting changes, decommissioning, communications, and adoption.
Establish reporting and data-access practices, including evaluating external data-sharing requests and addressing security, governance, and stewardship.
Coordinate production support across finance systems, reporting, interfaces, and data integrity; determine whether issues originate in reporting or upstream systems or data, and drive resolution with the appropriate technical owner.
Support JDA-to-Lawson financial posting and reconciliation, coordinating across Finance, Accounting, IT support, and job-scheduling teams when issues occur.
Lead or coordinate cross-functional finance-system initiatives and production changes; assess implementation risk, dependencies, accounting integrity, controls, and rollback considerations.
Partner with IT and business teams to improve system stability, resolve data and support issues, address root causes, support audit and compliance activities, and translate technical changes into business impacts and recommendations.