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ARA Controllership Transformation - Senior - BlackLine

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Skills : Java,IT Proficiency

 

Controllership Transformation Services practice, you will gain valuable hands-on experience working alongside leading professionals while building your professional skills in a variety of Purpose Built Accounting Automation technology specialties

 

 

Controllership Transformation Services practice, you will gain valuable hands-on experience working alongside leading professionals while building your professional skills in a variety of Purpose Built Accounting Automation technology specialties, such as BlackLine, as we help our clients transform their processes around financial close, consolidation, and reporting.

Work you'll do

The Controllership Transformation team works closely with purpose-built automation technologies in the market to help our clients improve accounting processes, build / configure accounting automation solutions, and develop governance/controls around these tools. We help organizations effectively navigate business risks and opportunities-from strategic, and financial risks to operational, and regulatory risks-to gain competitive advantage. We apply our experience in ongoing business operations and corporate lifecycle events to help clients become stronger and more resilient. Our market-leading teams help clients embrace complexity to accelerate performance, disrupt through innovation, and lead in their industries.

As a Senior in the practice, your responsibilities include:

Analyzing, manipulating, and managing data to deliver meaningful insights necessary to help companies of all sizes and across multiple industries address regulatory and business challenges

Working with clients to understand business challenges and identify solutions to drive desired outcomes

Leveraging accounting technology principles to turn data into trusted business information

Designing, building, and configuring BlackLine at medium and large size organizations

Creating, managing, and utilizing structured and unstructured data stores

Performing current state assessment of client accounting and data

Leveraging tools to enable actionable decision making

Developing system requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures and implementing with specific focus on BlackLine

Focus accounting domain areas will include the financial close and intercompany accounting.

Mapping data flows to identify optimal design and governance options as well as potential risks

Developing business solutions leveraging emerging automation, cognitive, and machine learning tools.

Controllership Transformation helps our clients transform business issues into opportunities for growth and long-term competitive advantage. Our BlackLine professionals make extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, rules-based methods, and accounting technology to bring insights to client issues in all industries.

QualificationsRequired

Bachelor's degree in one of the following majors with relevant business, technology, data and/or analytical focused coursework: Business: Accounting, Economics, Finance, Business Analytics; Technology: Management Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science; Math/Engineering: Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Industrial Engineering

Strong communication, team building, teaming and presentation experience

BlackLine certification in at least one of the core modules (Reconciliations, Task Management, Transaction Matching, etc.)

1+ years of technical or advisory-related implementation experience in some or all of the following process domain areas / related BlackLine products:

Financial close processes

Account reconciliations

Close task management

Journal entry creation/posting, etc.

High volume transaction matching

Variance

Reporting

Intercompany accounting (including BlackLine Intercompany Hub)

Governance / compliance

Prior experience working with and managing data sets as well as integrations between systems

Experience in designing/building BlackLine and/or related financial close automation solutions.

Demonstrated problem solving and critical thinking skills

Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects/ assignments/ responsibilities in a fast-paced environment

Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Preferred

Master's degree in related area.

BlackLine certification in all of the core modules (Reconciliations, Task Management, Transaction Matching, etc.)

Experience with packaged technologies like BlackLine

Project experience in areas such as process mapping, root cause/ gap analysis/ best fit, requirements gathering/ definition development

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

High energy, result driven person

Ability to energize teams through inclusiveness and connection with people

Strong commitment to the customer

Ability to multi-task and ensure timely deliverables

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in Colorado or Nevada is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to the State of Colorado and the State of Nevada and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $72,800 - $135,200 .

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

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