Description
This position is ideal for senior-level professionals to join the Finance Systems & Reporting team as a Sr. Finance Reporting Engineer. The Finance Engineer will be reporting to the Director, Global Finance Systems & Reporting based in San Jose, California (US) and would strategically engage with key members of finance function defining and delivering on the enterprise roadmap projects as well as own and help resolve day to day tactical problems and challenges.
The Sr. Finance Reporting Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise financial reporting and analytics solutions. This role focuses on delivering accurate, scalable, and automated reporting capabilities by leveraging SAP technologies, cloud-based data platforms, and business intelligence tools to support strategic decision-making across the organization.
Role expectations
- Lead the financial reporting life cycle end-to-end that includes conducting requirement gathering sessions with business, design the reporting solution, development, deployment, maintenance and training of the reporting solution to broader regional audience.
- Oversee the design and development for the planning system, OneStream, and be prepared to use other planning and reporting tools used at Align, including ERP, Consolidation Planning, and Business Intelligence software packages.
- Support financial close activities through data reconciliation, validation, and coordination of data loads for month-end, quarter-end, and year-end reporting.
- Responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and integration workflows to ensure accurate and efficient data processing across systems.
- Monitor data flows, task chains, and job performance; implementing data quality controls and validation processes; troubleshooting and resolving data load issues; and optimizing data transformation and loading performance.
- Develop and troubleshoot a variety of Onestream components that include transformation rules, security models, custom dashboards, reports, business rules, and member formulas, with a focus on enhancing system functionality and efficiency.
- Lead the collaboration and development efforts for various financial Power BI dashboards required for finance, that will make analytics easier and reporting simplified for business at the same time maintaining data accuracy standards as required for financial reporting.
- Acting as a liaison between business and IT groups. Work with IT to help them understand business requirements and translate it in technical terminologies for them. Help business understand the technical solutions deployed and train them on how they can effectively use it for their needs.
- Identifying the gaps with existing solutions in place, finding out solutions to resolve them and work with IT/business to get them implemented.
- Lead the integration testing and user acceptance testing with business and IT collaboratively.
- Key Personnel responsible for financial close reporting of critical reports
- Key person responsible for ensuring financial data integrity and completeness for all finance data that will be needed for financial close reporting.
- Comply with data security and access control standards, maintains thorough process documentation, and provides production support, including participation in on-call rotations with the offshore team when required.
- Assist with special projects and ad-hoc requests, as necessary.
What we're looking for
- Requires Bachelor’s degree in CS, Information Technology, or a related field
- 12+ years of experience in Data loading and Monitoring systems to support the Finance organization.
- Strong understanding of financial reporting, FP&A, close processes, and management reporting.
- Hands-on experience with SAP Datasphere for data modeling, data warehousing, integration, and governance across SAP and non-SAP landscapes.
- Strong understanding of SAP RTR business processes, hands on experience working with FI-GL, COPA, AR/AP,
- Should be a self-starter who is able to work with minimal direction and exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.
- Hands-on experience working with Onestream planning system or similar planning platforms such as Anaplan, Planful.
- Hands-on experience with SQL and object-oriented (VB.Net, C#) coding experience is preferred.
- The candidate will serve as a liaison between the finance user group, corporate report development team, and IT.
- Should be a team player and possess good interpersonal and communication skills, reflecting an ability to be patient and outgoing with people.
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