CFin Transformation Lead

About Carrier:

Carrier, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting-edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control, air quality and transportation, we improve lives, empower critical industries and ensure the safe transport of food, life-saving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902, we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share. We continue to lead because of our world-class, inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow Carrier on social media at @Carrier.

About This Role:

The Central Finance (CFin) team is looking for an experienced accounting and consolidation expert with system implementation experience to join the team in the implementation of SAP/S4 HANA CFin across the organization.   

This project is transformational for Carrier enabling the standardization of managerial and financial reporting to provide real time insight into business trends and results, driving scale and efficiency in transaction processing and upskilling the global organization to ensure adoption and full utilization of CFin to enable teams to work smarter. 

The CFin project is underway and consists of three phases including data foundation, shared services enablement and consolidation/intercompany. The current focus, the data foundation phase, includes aligning the common chart of accounts, cost centers, profit centers and business partners from legacy ERPs to CFIN. The CFIN Transformation Lead will work with the deployment team, CFin workstream leads and business subject matter experts to enable the integration of each ERP and AR/AP tools into the CFin environment. The CFin Transformation Lead will enable technology to standardize financial reporting, management reporting and transaction processing by collaborating with the Controllership and FP&A organizations to establish reporting needs and working with the Financials Controls Office to establish robust Sox controls and meet compliance requirements. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Execute Carrier’s vision to simplify its reporting by implementing a common information model, embrace digital tools and simplify its operating environment 

• Report to CFin Leader on CFin transformation including tactical aspects of each milestone, potential barriers and ensure upstream and downstream impacts are considered and addressed 

• Work cross-functionally to deploy the scope and requirements of the program, validate adoption of the global design, identify current gaps in harmonization requirements and ensure that corrective actions are taken to remediate these 

• Engage and collaborate with respective end users to ensure awareness and consideration of sustainability is at the center of every conversation 

• Partner with Change Management Lead to provide input on communication and training needs 

• Perform reconciliations, process audits, enhance controls and drive change, where necessary 

• Drive adoption of the CFin tool for future state 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree 

• 5 years implementing SAP systems/tools 

• 8 years applicable Finance/Accounting experience 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Previou