Senior Specialist, Financial Systems

Base Salary Range: $112000 - $137300

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Financial Systems
Job ID: 80735
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia


What you must have:

• Oversee, maintains and governs the data hierarchies and set-up procedures within the financial system, ensuring standardization across all operating companies.

• Identifies and supports continuous improvement initiatives to enhance systems and align with organizational goals.

• Supports redesign and change initiatives.

• Designs and maintains standard financial reports, works across business areas to document reporting requirements, analyze requirements and create solutions to fit end user needs.

• Works closely with financial reporting team on monthly, quarterly and annually close processes. Supports audit needs related to financial data.

• Runs periodic procedures to test financial system controls and ensure data integrity in the general ledger.

• Works closely with Information Technology support to ensure system settings and configurations are maintained and relevant as business needs change.

• Optimize the company's ERP system and seeking to improve business processes.

• Works collaboratively with other company businesses (e.g. Marine Group) to promote cooperation between finance teams and to ensure shared planning, execution, and data-driven decision making.

• Build data models and act as single point of contact for data structures within ERP/ Power BI systems, for finance and accounting.

• Validate and maintain automatic accounting instructions (AAI’s) against accounting standards and system processes.

• Manage and maintain the user security model, triage requests for role changes and ensure integrity of segregation of duties.

• Ability to define requirements, develop a business case, build a project plan, and lead the implementation of new programs that may run across the organization.  This includes system upgrades, rollout of training tools, etc.

• Provide leadership and technical expertise on the cross-over between accounting and financial systems.

• Develop, maintain and execute an end-user training model for accounting users.

What you must have:

• Bachelor’s degree required.

• MBA is desirable.

• Professional designation CPA (CA, CMA, CGA) is required.

• Experience with Oracle Cloud desirable.

• Minimum 7 years’ work experience in a business environment; in Finance and Accounting or Information Technology. This includes experience in reporting, data management, system implementations and/or upgrades, project management, and reports writing (SAP Business Objects, Crystal Reports, etc.).

• Expert knowledge in Canadian ASPE, GAAP and related financial reporting requirements.

• 5 years’ experience managing projects is preferred.

• Minimum 3 years leading a team of finance, accounting and/or information technology professionals.

Salary/Rate Range: $112,000.00 - $137,300.00


For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com