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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 6 years of experience in accounting, finance, business management or audit or a High School Diploma/GED and at least 9 years of experience in accounting, finance, business management or audit.
• At least 3 years of experience in financial system implementation or strategy design.
• Experience in diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems
• Experience utilizing reporting tools and implementations, such as Hyperion.
• Experience with MS Office Suite
• At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
• At least 3 years of experience directly managing people, including hiring, developing, motivating, and directing people as they work.
• Willing to travel up to 15% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 8 years of experience in accounting, finance, business management or audit or a High School Diploma/GED and at least 11 years of experience in accounting, finance, business management or audit.
• Master’s degree in Accountancy or MBA
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• CPA designation.
• Experience developing financial data strategy.
• Experience communicating and presenting to all levels of management.
• Experience developing a project plan, including charter, scope, project management approach and management plans, such as the statement of work, cost estimates, schedule, etc.
• At least 4 years of experience planning, developing, and managing departmental expenses and capital budgets.
• At least 4 years of experience directly managing people, including hiring, developing, motivating, and directing people as they work.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing the strategy for the Service Delivery Model working with customers enterprise wide and establishing best practices to drive continuous improvement across the general accounting processes.
• Responsible for developing the vision of financial data hierarchy to support Accounting, Finance, Tax, and Legal teams and for driving all aspects of IT and FT&I (Financial Transformation & Innovation) strategic projects for General Accounting.
• Partners through collaboration within the Accounting division and Chief Financial Officers to ensure financial reporting requirements are met through the use of efficient and effective reporting solutions.
• Ensures internal accounting controls are part all system design and hierarchy and through evaluates procedural changes
• Identifies and recommends process and systems improvement and Service Provider and Accounting Division action plans and leads implementation of approved projects.
• Creates strategy, implements recommendations and provides oversight of user access/security levels and systems changes according to WAG procedures and policies.
• Develops system usage training materials for all employees.
• Trains WAG end users on general ledger systems usage including journal entries, reporting requirements and other related processes.
• Helps deliver end-user satisfaction with the process
• Provides integration support and strategy for newly acquired businesses and related accounting processes
• Develops, monitors, coaches and manages staff ensuring the development of employees through orientation, training, establishing objectives, communication of rules, constructive discipline.
• Builds employee morale, motivation and loyalty.

Benefits

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