General Ledger Implementation – Control Framework Specialist recruitment

Position Category: Finance/Accounting

Position Title: General Ledger Implementation - Control Framework Specialist

Job Level: Vice President

Location: USA - NY - New York (One NY Plaza)

Education Required: Refer to Position Description

Position Description:
Finance Strategic Architecture - GL Strategy group. Resource needed to manage audit and controls infrastructure for new General Ledger Vendor Package (e.g. Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP) implementation. This role will involve:

- Establishing Audit-related business requirements and design.
- Establishing process control requirements and design, including reconciliation and reporting.
- Developing application/data security and controls requirements and design.
- Defining entitlements and user access requirements.
- Managing application security, segregation of duties testing.

The resource will be involved in analysis with various stakeholder groups within Finance and outside of Finance (such as Sub-ledger group, technology, etc.), and will need to have strong execution skills in order employ a robust control framework environment with the GL implementation. The resource will be involved in overall planning, design, development of requirements, and testing.

***THIS IS NOT A PMO ROLE***
***THIS IS NOT A TECHNOLOGY SME ROLE***

Skills Required:
1. Experience with Major ERP Vendor packages (e.g. Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP).
Experience with audit-related controls, process controls, reconciliation/exception reporting, entitlements/security, and testing.

2. Strong analytical skills
The candidate must have close attention to detail and be able to perform thorough analysis.

3. Strong communication skills
The candidate is required to work alongside global counterparts and with various stakeholder groups as well as IT groups.
The candidate should also be a confident presenter and display excellent written oral communication.

4. Strong functional knowledge
The candidate should extensive experience in developing and enhancing control framework environments.
The candidate should have knowledge of other Finance functions such as product control, month-end close, financial accounting, financial statement reporting, etc.
The candidate should have knowledge of the finance architecture around the processes and data flows (General Ledger, Consolidations, subledgers, upstream data sources, reporting tools, etc.).

5. Professional skills:
- display high level of initiative proactiveness
- strong sense of guardianship
- display good judgment
- high degree of integrity
- able to work towards deadlines
- display commitment to the project team