Financial Systems Lead

Blackline Systems LTD • Los Angeles, CA

314d • $141,000 - $176,000

About The Position

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing! At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance. Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers. Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine! BlackLine is looking for an experienced Financial Systems Lead to be a part of the Financial Systems team. This role will report to the Senior Manager, Financial Systems and support multiple systems utilized by the Accounting & Finance teams. This candidate will be responsible for Managing Financial Systems Development Projects and leading a team of both internal and external support resources. An ideal candidate has 7 years' experience acting as a Financial Systems administrator and solutions architect in a management capacity; managing complex development projects, creating technical requirements documentation as well as integration design and implementation.

Requirements

• 7 years' experience with NetSuite and Zuora, experience functioning as an Administrator and Solutions Architect.
• 5-7 years managing a financial systems support team.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems or Computer Science.
• Prior experience working in or with Accounting and Finance teams.
• Well versed in financial systems (BlackLine, Salesforce, Zuora, JIRA, Confluence, Coupa, Adaptive, etc.).
• Expert understanding of NetSuite functionality including but not limited to Workflows, SuiteScript, ARM, Fixed Assets, Advanced Approvals, Custom Reports and Searches.
• Experience working with third party development teams.
• Ability to communicate effectively with finance teams, auditors, technical teams, and system users at all levels in the organization.
• A detailed understanding of various integration platforms for moving data into NetSuite such as (Dell Boomi).
• Experience working within industry standard development processes to deploy changes in a structured, auditable method.
• Experience creating enterprise level technical documentation.
• Prior experience creating change management documentation to support ITGC's.

Nice To Haves

• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced, fast-changing work environment.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and learn quickly.
• Experience in software or SaaS industry is a plus.
• Experience running projects from initiation to completion with minimal oversight.
• A process before tools approach to problem solving.
• Customer services oriented.
• A positive attitude and enthusiasm to get things done with a creative approach to problem solving.
• Ability to assist in creation of functional and technical specifications.
• Must embrace in learning, sharing knowledge and working with changing technology.
• A team player who can collaborate with our internal team and other cross functional teams.
• The ability to solve highly complex business problems across platforms utilizing Salesforce and other business applications.
• Excellent analytical, technology, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage development projects for financial systems enhancement/automation projects by performing full SDLC cycle.
• Requirements gathering/ Software specs documentation/ Design and architect/ Develop/ Test/ Deployment + Maintain.
• Analyze and develop authoritative operational knowledge of the internal end users' complex processes, practices and workflows, requirements and specifications; capitalize on this knowledge to deliver comprehensive automated solutions.
• Manage large, complex system integration projects, defining process, documentation, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
• Manage data migration activity related to new acquisitions, international expansion and new system implementations.
• Ongoing NetSuite development efforts; Architect and develop workflows, scripts, custom forms, reports, searches, dashboards.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing with our accounting team during development of new system customizations and processes.
• Perform end user training with departments or staff on the effective and productive use of the new systems, policies, and practices.
• Participate in day-to-day system troubleshooting exercises, logging and resolving tickets in ticketing system (JIRA).
• Support Quarterly ITGC's process with supporting documentation.
• Coordinate system implementations working with third party implementation partners.
• Facilitate release planning and capacity planning for team's initiatives.

Benefits

• Short-term and long-term incentive programs based on eligibility.
• Robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree