Sr Specialist, Financial Systems (Oracle)

• Permanent Full-Time
• Location: Vancouver, BC (3-days on-site)

• 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.
• Optimizes ERP system and seeking to improve business processes.
• Works collaboratively with other business units 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.

• 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.

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