Sr Mgr, Finance - BlackLine & Kyriba COE

Vantive•Deerfield, IL

3d•$140,000 - $192,000

About The Position

The Senior Manager, BlackLine & Kyriba Center of Excellence will support the implementation, optimization, governance, and ongoing use of Vantive’s close, controls, and treasury technology platforms. This role will partner across Finance, Accounting, Treasury, IT, and Finance Transformation to help deliver practical, well-controlled system and process solutions. The ideal candidate brings strong accounting process knowledge, hands-on system experience, a controls mindset, and the ability to work effectively in a changing environment. This role is a good fit for someone who can connect business requirements, system functionality, and process governance while helping teams adopt consistent ways of working.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in Accounting, Treasury, Finance Transformation, Finance Systems, Shared Services, or consulting.
Strong understanding of accounting operations, the financial close process, account reconciliations, journal entries, controls, governance, and audit requirements.
Experience with BlackLine required; experience with Kyriba, treasury systems, ERP platforms, or finance technology administration strongly preferred.
Experience with system configuration, workflow design, user access, testing, issue resolution, and release or change management.
Ability to connect system functionality to business process outcomes, accounting controls, and operating model requirements.
Demonstrated ability to work across Finance, Accounting, Treasury, IT, and transformation teams in a complex, matrixed environment.
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain system and process topics in clear business terms.
Ability to operate in ambiguity and help build new capabilities, governance routines, and operating practices as the organization evolves.

Nice To Haves

CPA, MBA, accounting certification, or equivalent experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Support the implementation, stabilization, and ongoing improvement of BlackLine and Kyriba capabilities across Finance.
Partner with Accounting, Treasury, IT, and external partners to translate business requirements into practical system-enabled solutions.
Maintain configuration standards, workflow designs, approval structures, user roles, and operating procedures for supported platforms.
Identify opportunities to increase automation, reduce manual work, improve visibility, and strengthen close and treasury processes.
Support testing, issue resolution, release readiness, and post-go-live support to ensure successful adoption.
Apply accounting and controls knowledge to system design, reconciliations, journals, treasury activities, and related workflows.
Partner with Accounting and Treasury teams to ensure processes align with policies, controls, audit requirements, and business needs.
Help manage governance routines for system changes, master data impacts, access administration, workflow updates, and process exceptions.
Support standards for reconciliations, close tasks, journal workflows, cash management activities, and related control points.
Track adoption, compliance, and process effectiveness through metrics, reporting, and stakeholder feedback.
Help build and maintain a sustainable BlackLine and Kyriba Center of Excellence.
Create and maintain process documentation, support routines, and knowledge resources for consistent global platform use.
Serve as a liaison between Finance Transformation, Accounting, Treasury, IT, and other key stakeholder groups.
Support the transition from project implementation to steady-state operations, including handoffs, roles and responsibilities, and service expectations.
Identify enhancement opportunities and help prioritize roadmap items based on business value, controls, and operational impact.
Partner closely with Accounting, Treasury, Finance Transformation, IT, Internal Audit, enterprise master data teams, and other finance technology stakeholders.
Coordinate with ERP, master data, and integration teams to assess upstream and downstream impacts of system, process, and data changes.
Facilitate working sessions with business users to understand needs, solve problems, and align on practical solutions.
Prepare clear status updates, decision points, and recommendations for Finance Transformation and Accounting leadership.
Advise business users by connecting system knowledge with accounting outcomes and control requirements.
Support change management, training, and communications to drive adoption of new tools and processes.
Develop and maintain user guidance, process documentation, training materials, and support routines.
Reinforce the benefits of standard processes, strong controls, better visibility, and improved efficiency.
Help users understand how to use the tools and why consistent governance matters.