Asst. Director, Financial Systems Process Transformation

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The Asst. Director, Financial Systems (A) optimizes finance and accounting processes through effective financial system utilization, leading system changes and ensuring alignment with organizational goals and regulations. 

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS  

Serves as a finance and accounting SME, focusing on business processes and financial systems. 

Translates business needs into detailed functional requirements for system implementations. 

Leads and coordinates project work plans, testing, and documentation for system changes. 

Facilitates discussions across Finance areas to improve processes through system functionality. 

Leads financial system projects, including upgrades and strategic initiatives. 

Provides timely communication on project status, issues, and timelines to stakeholders. 

Identifies, analyzes, and communicates system issues to technical teams and stakeholders. 

Collaborates on issue resolution, including workarounds and audits. 

Maintains logs of system issues and approved enhancements. 

Supports vendor case management and troubleshoots application issues. 

Develops and implements audit strategies and procedures to ensure optimal system utilization and data integrity. 

Contributes to the strategic design and evolution of financial system specifications, collaborating with technical resources to ensure alignment with organizational objectives and operational needs. 

Investigates complex data integrity issues and leads the identification and implementation of solutions for misalignments with policies and procedures. 

Serves as a key resource in understanding system configurations to ensure alignment with business operations and policies. 

Establishes and continuously assesses the effectiveness of the internal controls within the unit and compliance with University policies and procedures.  Ensures employees are trained on controls within the function and on University policy and procedures. 

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary. 

CORE QUALIFICATIONS  

Education: 

Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field  

Certification and Licensing: 

Refer to department description for applicable certification requirements 

Experience: 

Minimum 7 years of relevant experience 

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes: 

- Strategic Alignment: Skilled in aligning departmental goals with enterprise-wid