Technology Manager, Accounting, Advisory & Outsourcing

Job Summary:

The Technology Manager, Accounting, Advisory & Outsourcing manages the full-life cycle of NetSuite Implementation engagements. We are seeking a professional with a public accounting background and extensive experience in NetSuite implementations. The successful candidate will be adept at leveraging their accounting expertise to design and deploy sophisticated cloud-based financial systems using NetSuite.

This role will work with a team of technology leaders, software developers, client facing outsourced finance and accounting professionals and various other SMEs to manage project work to successful completion. The individual in this role will be responsible for leading discussions and overseeing client’s (internal and external) needs to strive to build and maintain strong delivery as well as ensure client expectations are successfully met. 

Job Duties:

General

• Spearheads NetSuite implementation projects, ensuring seamless transition and integration of financial operations
• Utilizes knowledge of public accounting to inform system configuration, ensuring both compliance and efficiency
• Engages with clients to translate complex accounting needs into effective NetSuite solutions
• Manages client (external and internal) expectations and delivers difficult messages when necessary to keep project delivery on course
• Drives the vision of the project solution
• Prepares formal and informal presentations for client meetings and internal meetings
• Identifies new business opportunities and communicates such opportunities to his/her engagement superiors
• Acts as liaison between change requester and software development team and addresses development team needs efficiently and effectively; creates release timelines and plans; coaches’ team on solution delivery and risk mitigation
• Facilitates meetings with developers by providing functional clarification and setting delivery expectations with team and client while also managing budget
• Supports the projects on-time delivery, finds and eliminates impediments, actively addresses issues, and builds a high-performing, continuous improvement team environment
• Manages all time input and billing activities ensuring completion in a timely manner
• Independently designs and implements the repackaging of third party or BDO proprietary software to ensure consistent installation with minimal to no user interruption
• Collaborates with team members in the development of utilities and/or tools to improve efficiency of internal and external users with regard to workstation related tasks
• Evaluates business rules to determine the most efficient manner to meet end-user requirements
• Recommends modifications or workarounds, if necessary, to incorporate new versions into the existing BDO environment
• Creates technical documentation to assist with Quality Assurance code review
• Collaborates with the Quality Assurance team to ensure thorough and complete testing and remediation of technical solutions
• Remains current on latest technologies and emerging trends in area of expertise, and recommends ways to utilize new technologies in the BDO environment
• Other duties as required

Client (external and internal) Service Delivery

• Understands the technology packages clients are using to support their accounting/finance functions; describes the major functions each system performs, and knows how the system performs those functions; explains the purpose and value of system functions that a client may not be using; identifies when a client is not using a technology package in a proper or efficient manner; learns new technology quickly, understands the essence of technologies, how they can be used, how they interact with other technologies and business functions, determines what the best methods/benefits are for using them, and applies these technologies to an engagement
• Facilitates effective discovery meetings with clients; uses open ended questions to identify what their objectives are, what financial information they value for management/decision making and why, as well creates a map of their current internal finance and accounting structure
• Designs integrated solutions that respond to the specific situation; knows BDO well enough internally to identify when services outside of the business line should be included and describes what these services achieve and how they operate; outlines the solution in a concise document and vets it internally with their leaders and other BDO stakeholders
• Accurately determines the cost of building a client solution; calculates the benefit to a client in dollar terms of the solution, using the pricing process; compares the d