Financial Systems Governance - Decatur, IL

Archer Daniels Midland Company•Decatur, IL

53d

About The Position

The Financial Systems Governance (FSG) team has an opening for an FSG Analyst. The position will provide the first level of support for the governance team and assist in processing changes to financial systems. As a global team, this role will interact with internationally located team members and other global ADM colleagues regularly. This individual will perform analysis of requests and capabilities to ensure the team's governance and maintenance of RTR meta and master data aligns with business rules, policies, procedures and controls to effectively satisfy the system requirements of the US GAAP consolidations and local ledgers. These duties are performed applying an understanding of the business requirements of ADM's businesses and operations worldwide. The position will analyze requirements against data models and business rules, and will also perform operational duties which ensure the data element creation/change processes are accurate and efficient. The individual will interact with employees globally.

Requirements

Graduate of a degree in Accounting, Business or Information Technology
Working knowledge or ability to learn J.D. Edwards (JDE), SAP S4, Hyperion, IBM, SharePoint, ServiceNow and other applications where FSG maintains master data
Expertise or have a good sense in the creation and maintenance of SAP Financial master data and master data of other systems like JDE for general ledger operations (profit/cost centers and hierarchies, global and company chart of accounts, financial statement versions, alternate accounts and account translations for statutory needs, month-end and year-end ledger procedures)
Familiarity with applying or eager to learn data quality and data model rules and standards
Familiarity with mapping or eager to learn general ledgers to consolidations systems
Familiarity with US GAAP requirements.
Advanced MS Excel skills and fluent user of MS Outlook
Good system aptitude and working knowledge of financial reporting tools
A team player with strong customer service skills, both oral and written
Ability to consistently apply rules to tasks and decisions, and explain decisions to customers
Problem-solving skills with the ability to adapt to a changing environment
Flexible, dependable and detail-oriented
Ability to work outside normal office hours (occasionally, to work with global team)

Nice To Haves

Process refinement skills desired but not required
Ability to occasional work outside normal US workhours for team collaboration with EU/APAC team members

Responsibilities

Customer support for Financial Systems Governance/Maintenance
Support all 1ADM (SAP S4/Hana) releases, enhancements and system modifications
Provide FSG Submit and Review training for the 1ADM program for the SAP implementation
Support project accounting master data needs for the 1ADM initiative
Evaluate requests for general ledger master data changes for compliance with data rules; execute requests and validate setup
Hyperion - metadata requests, mapping requests
Provide support in Informatica Master Data Management hubs; including Place, Cross Reference and Reference Data hubs.
Apply standards and rules for legal entity changes; update and maintain the corporation's financial master records database, ensuring all parameters are accurate and maintained timely
Participate in the development, updating and maintenance of departmental procedures, tools, and metrics for the master data team
Participate in monitoring and ensuring that the Company's master data business rules, policies and procedures are adhered to by the Segments across all ledgers and the consolidation system
Ability to regularly communicate as needed across boundaries to increase the effectiveness of the business is an important attribute for this position
SOX risk and controls narratives review, provide audit evidence, walkthroughs, etc.