Accounting Financial Systems Executive

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

The Opportunity

What you’ll do:

• Provides recommendations and expertise to CFO leadership and cross-functional teams on strategy, priorities, and operating procedures that will uplevel the impact of finance on the broader company through finance IT platforms.
• Partners with Finance leadership and systems leadership to help prioritize, architect, and deliver key projects, with high degree of focus on accountability and alignment between the teams and effective delivery.
• Leads team responsible for the management of financial applications that support accounts payable, general ledger, accounting close process, systems procurement, meta data/master data management and other accounting processes and data.
• Provides risk and controls consultation to ensure all functional areas across CFO appropriately identify, measure, mitigate risks and report and remediate issues.
• Serves as a module owner for G/L and accounting modules of the ERP and certain external reporting applications. Maintains the health of these systems by actively participating in MPL planning sessions to secure funding for upgrades and enhancements.
• Improves data management and analytical platform and optimizes the use of accessible data thereby challenging and changing the way that financial data is currently used in the business.
• Assesses each of the financial processes and procedures within the environment to identify opportunities to optimize through system modifications, process standardization and training.
• Leads and approves all financial system configuration and modification implementations.
• Provides insight and prospective to CFO leaders on new systems or technologies to solve user functional requirements and needs.
• Oversees the team who provides global support to end users on future implementations and upgrades to financial systems.

What you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Risk Management, Economics, or related field required OR 4 additional years of related financial experience beyond the minimum required may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• 10 or more years of progressive experience in the financial systems and/or IT function developing strategies, managing major initiatives and delivering results within a complex matrix environment required.
• 6 or more years of people leadership experience in building, managing and/or developing high-performing teams required.
• Strong technical background of web-based application architecture, system and database architecture, security application integration and object-oriented languages in a large enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage across business and technology disciplines in a matrixed organization.
• Expert knowledge and hands on experience with financial and ERP systems (Oracle preferred).
• Experience collaborating with key resources and stakeholders, influencing decisions and managing work to achieve strategic goals required.
• Executive-level business acumen in the areas of business operations, accounting operations, GAAP and industry accounting practices and emerging trends required.

What sets you apart:

• Demonstrated accomplishments in leading large scale Oracle cloud transformation and implementation
• CPA with detailed knowledge of Accounting framework
• Experience running enterprise-wide projects in a large Financial Institution

What we offer:

Compensation:

The salary range for this position is: $ 163,880.00- 294,980.00.

Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Long Term Incentive Plan: Cash payment for Execut