Financial Busines Systems Manager - Senior

Why join us? 

Our purpose is to design for the good of humankind. It’s the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of MillerKnoll means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows MillerKnoll to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.

GENERAL PURPOSE

Leads a team and finance-related activities in support of multiple/large projects/ functions or major business units/product lines that are a significant element of the organization's business/operations. Oversees the preparation of highly detailed and most complex financial analyses and research for financial forecasts and projections. Conducts financial analysis through the application of expert general content or specialized technical knowledge to business units. Assignments provide exposure to the most complex financial concepts, issues and activities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Actively participates/interacts with the Finance Team Leaders on an ongoing basis and during month-end/year-end close.
• Applies thorough understanding or organizational structure, strategic business unit and objectives.
• Develops and delegates strategic work initiatives to achieve desired business results.
• Ensures adherence to HMI financial policy and GAAP.
• Identifies individual team member career development needs and resources or activities to achieve them.
• Leads major projects or must solve very complex problems having time and resource constraints.
• Maintains a thorough understanding of complex HMI IT systems and their inter-relationships and dependencies.
• Maintains an effective and documented internal control environment as required under 404 (SOX) within area(s) of responsibility and the areas supported by the team.
• Oversees work team of finance professionals, including direct day-to-day activities.░
• Oversees business analysis of financial results, processes and forecasts to identify areas of focus for improvements, problem areas, overall direction of results and quality of content.
• Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.
• Prepares and reviews detailed and complex account analyses and financial statements.
• Provides strategic financial input into assigned Business Unit's strategic and financial plans.
• Provides support to other business partners with their financial accounting issues and requirements.
• Reviews and re-engineers business processes as necessary, identifies business requirements and manages change.
• Works very closely with other finance areas and auditors to coordinate quarterly and annual audits and acts as a liaison with other business partners to gather required financial information to complete audit work on a timely basis.
• Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.

ADDITIONAL ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Lead the One Stream Administration team as the Work Team Leader, including oversight of work quality and outstanding application design to support the longer-term health of the application, maintenance, and future needs of the MillerKnoll Organization.
• Work with financial leadership and key stake holders to identify business requirements, goals, and objectives to make finance and financial reporting needs of the organization more effective and efficient.
• Investigate solutions within the One Steam platform and “app” store to provide additional value to the organization.
• Work with the consolidations, FP&A and business unit leads to continue to enhance the record to report processes to support internal and external reporting requirements.
• Work to define a road map for additional product line reporting to support the segment reporting initiatives and to support business decisions.
• Develop a road map for all the initiatives, work with finance leadership to prioritize and execute these initiatives.
• Work with the consolidations team to bring the legacy Knoll business units more closely into the Herman Miller legacy processes, including creating better visibility into the status of the close across MillerKnoll to support business partner needs.
• Support various SOX compliance requirement associated with this application and hosting solution.

QUALIFICATIONS

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