Accounting Systems and Automation Lead

Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

What you'll do

This position involves identifying automation opportunities, developing business cases, managing prioritization and intake, and delivering digital transformation initiatives.

As the strategic lead for large-scale automation, you'll build strong partnerships with key business stakeholders, DTS, and the CAO leadership team to deliver automation solutions. Success in this role hinges on critical thinking, effective planning, and execution, as well as cross-functional collaboration across different teams and locations.

 

This role is crucial for leading and implementing automation within accounting operations. You'll drive process excellence across the Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) organization, encompassing Quote-to-Cash, Record to Report, Procure to Pay, and Hire to Retire processes, as well as ERP, AI/Automation technologies, UIPath, Alteryx, and Tableau applications.

This position is not a people manager role reporting to the Senior Director, Accounting Operations.

 

Responsibility

• Serve as a finance automation team lead to represent the CAO in the overall company automation strategy

• Interface with cross-functional teams within the CAO organization to evaluate and advise on the “art of the possible,” automation to drive process simplification and improvements

• Partner with the DTS Automation team to develop the intake process, establish prioritization governance, and build ROI metrics to showcase the business value of using automation

• Partner across the accounting operations teams to drive automation delivery and ensure alignment on priorities

• Work with different technologies and drive the best practices to adopt the right technology for process automation.

• Develop a Center of Excellence (COE) for Alteryx to manage standards, share knowledge, and establish best practices

• Encourage the sharing of best practices and insights among all team members

• Inspire change and collaboration among diverse and distributed team

Job Designation

Remote: Employee is not required to be in or near an office frequently and works from a designated remote work location for the majority of the time.

 

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring

Basic

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/Accounting or related field
• 8+ years of progressive experience in finance, accounting process automation
• Experience in functional/business process and data analysis focused on the Finance domain
• Experience in business transformational projects/programs globally
• Experience of automation technology, including Alteryx development, UiPath, and Microsoft maker

Preferred

• Experience in a Hi-Tech / SaaS-based company
• Excellent communication skills

Wage Transparency

Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

 

Based on applicable legislation, the below details pay ranges in the following locations:

 

California: $112,800.00 - $175,000.00 base salary

 

Illinois, Colorado, Massachusetts and Minnesota: $106,900.00 - $147,025.00 base salary

 

Washington, Maryland, New Jersey and New York (including NYC metro area): $106,900.00 - $155,100.00 base salary

 

Washington DC: $112,800.00 - $155,100.00 base salary

 

Ohio: $94,500.00 - $129,900.00 base salary 

 

This role is also eligible for the following:

• Bonus: Sales personnel are eligible for variable incentive pay dependent on their achievement of pre-established sales goals. Non-Sales roles are eligi