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Job Summary:
The University of Missouri-Columbia is seeking a Finance Information Systems Manager to join their Controller’s Office, which provides leadership in financial reporting and tax compliance. This role involves overseeing the implementation of a new cloud ERP system and managing the record-to-report modules, ensuring effective communication and collaboration across various stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
• Prior to implementation, consolidate and improve reporting infrastructure to ensure comparable legacy data exists at go live. Consistently focus on ensuring comparable financial information is provided from legacy to future state system. Scope necessary requirements for reporting related to implementation ensure the enterprise can continue to monitor consolidated performance through the implementation.
• Leads the resources responsible for the record to report portion of the ERP implementation.
• Manages the vendor relationship with the implementation partner to ensure all business requirements are identified and implemented.
• Actively engages stakeholders in decision-making related to both system and process design. Coordinates with other project team members on intersections in process and technology.
• Exercises judgment and applies perspectives based on the analysis of multiple sources of information, determining gaps, providing recommendations, experience, etc. to solve problems for desirable outcomes of the University.
• Works with project manager to lead key project elements. Identifies key stakeholders and plans for their integration into the project. Appropriately manages scope and expectations to available resources and project goals. Identifies communication and change management needs and engages those teams in managing a successful project outcome.
• Develops tests plans and advises implementation and technology partners on system design.
• Plans for necessary resources within the record to report sub teams. Leads/manages related staff as those members come onto the project team. Also manages vendor and software provider resources dedicated to the full record to report cycle. Actively communicates and raises issues within project collaboration structures.
• As with all positions, involvement with other duties and responsibilities may be expected to support the mission and purpose of the University of Missouri System.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Five years of relevant experience
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrate knowledge of a broad range of financial functions, procedures, and processes
• Be self-motivated and proactively solve problems with little oversight
• Work well as a member of a team and provide leadership and motivation
• Understand the relationships between financial statements and systems that feed them
• Proactively communicate problems and work across the enterprise to solve them
• Consolidate and improve reporting infrastructure to ensure comparable legacy data exists at go live
• Scope necessary requirements for reporting related to implementation
• Leads the resources responsible for the record to report portion of the ERP implementation
• Manages the vendor relationship with the implementation partner
• Actively engages stakeholders in decision-making related to both system and process design
• Exercises judgment and applies perspectives based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
• Works with project manager to lead key project elements
• Identifies key stakeholders and plans for their integration into the project
• Appropriately manages scope and expectations to available resources and project goals
• Identifies communication and change management needs and engages those teams
• Develops tests plans and advises implementation and technology partners on system design
• Plans for necessary resources within the record to report sub teams
• Leads/manages related staff as those members come onto the project team
• Actively communicates and raises issues within project collaboration structures
Preferred:
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Accounting, or a related field
• Proficient with data management, reporting and enterprise software applications
• Certified Public Accountant designation
• Experience in ERP technology solutions, processes, and integrations
• Strong accounting skills
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Ability to prioritize and be self-motivated
• Experience Directing Teams And Processes Preferred
Company:
We are Mizzou! Our distinct mission, as Missouri's only state-supported member of the Association of American Universities, is to provide all Missourians the benefits of a world-class research university. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Columbia, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.