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Overview

Intuit’s Finance team drives business growth and profitability through strategic, financial and operational leadership. Our team is comprised of finance, accounting, supply chain, corporate strategy & development and tax professionals that support and enhance Intuit's operating efficiencies

This is a functional role in the Finance Digital Transformation and Governance (FDTG) organization representing accounting process owners for new finance back-office systems initiatives and enhancements. As an individual contributor, this position will engage with finance and technology organizations on systems initiatives impacting accounting processes, have a risk based assessment of financial impact due to system changes and provide assurance over systems implementation to the CAO, finance and accounting leaders, and finance and accounting teams.

This position is expected to have deep accounting process and domain knowledge, representing an E2E accounting and finance POV with an ability to translate business requirements into system requirements, review of solution design, and validation through testing. The position will require strong cross-functional skills with a POV that operates at a consistent quality and standard considering existing system architecture and design decisions, existing and future processes, inherent risks, and accounting. Primary systems in focus for this position are Oracle eBusiness Suite (specifically R2R), BlackLine, Coupa, Workday, Kyriba, and Data. The position will also be required to provide strong change management, training and support to the entire finance team.

The individual in this role must have comprehensive experience of Record to Report processes, strong project management skills, and exceptional communication skills. This individual must demonstrate good business sense, use data to drive decisions, be an independent thinker, team player and a trusted thought partner. Ability to communicate clearly, work effectively with diverse groups, skill with quantitative/qualitative analytical methodologies and tools, ability to quickly research, understand and document new processes and requirements are foundational needs for success in this role.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting with minimum of 5-7 years of functional finance/business systems experience or equivalent work experience

• 3-5 years of Accounting and Financial system implementation and transformation experience, with experience on requirements documentation, solution review and testing validation as a functional lead

• Oracle Cloud or equivalent cloud ERP implementation experience

• Experience on Oracle R12 and BlackLine preferred

• Accounting and financial domain knowledge.

• Strong “systems and process orientation” with demonstrated analytical thinking, organizational skills and problem solving skills

• Project management skills with a proven track record of delivering projects

• Excellent written and verbal communications, presentation and influencing skills, including the ability to raise issues appropriately to the right level internally and externally to resolve

• Able to speak “finance/accounting” and “technical” languages for the right audiences

• Ability to influence people and indirectly manage a team of people to ensure the effective execution of complex initiatives

• Ability to navigate complexity well and demonstrated experience managing across functions to accomplish large scale goals

• Must be comfortable working in cross-functional teams and willing to voice their opinion

• Must be savvy to understand both business needs and the technologies to implement them

• Have experience identifying systemic and process risks and how to mitigate those discoveries

How you will lead

• Finance Requirements Document Sign-off – Translate complex finance and accounting guidance and processes into system requirements. Consider end-to-end business processes, transactional flows, associated accounting impacts and required controls. Thought partner with teams to provide clarification on accounting implications and process impact, but with a system/automation perspective. Design and develop requirements for finance and accounting.

• Solution Review and Signoff – Provide point of view on solution leveraging end-to-end knowledge of finance and accounting processes and controls. Provide transparency on significant design decisions and process changes to finance and accounting leaders and teams with a point of view on risk, resource and financial impacts. Validate solution for accounting implications, and provide point of view on system design, gaps and deferrals with inputs on prioritization and manual workarounds.

• Testing - Align on testing approach and scenarios with a point of view on financial risk. Validate testing evidence for accuracy of accounting results, as needed. Lead UAT coordination with process owners.

• Change management and transformation - drive overall change management, communication and training to accounting process owners throughout the software lifecycle development process; goal is ‘no surprises’ for our stakeholders. Identify opportunities for change and work cross-functionality to implement the changes in processes and systems.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Intuit will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with requirements of local law.