Finance Functional Role In Finance Digital Transformation And Governance
Intuit's Finance team drives business growth and profitability through strategic, financial and operational transformation. This is not an IT role. This is a finance functional role in the Finance Digital Transformation and Governance (FDTG) team, within the Controllership, Assurance & Operations (CAO) organization. As an individual contributor, this position will interface between technology teams and finance process owners as an expert over monetization systems that include but are not limited to Billing, Revenue, Partnerships (SPM), Oracle eBusiness suite and item design systems. Responsibilities include assessing implications to monetization systems to support business initiatives, providing finance requirements, validating solutions, architecting finance processes in support of the solution with rigorous change management and a strong PoV on financial risk. This position is expected to have deep accounting process and domain knowledge, representing an E2E finance point of view with an ability to translate complex accounting requirements into system requirements along with proven engagement on software development lifecycle. The position will require strong cross-functional skills with a point of view that operates at a consistent quality considering existing system architecture and design decisions, existing and future processes and inherent financial risks. The individual in this role must demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of Quote to Cash and Revenue accounting processes, strong project management skills, ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and exceptional change management skills. This individual must demonstrate good business sense, use data to drive decisions, be an independent thinker, team player and a trusted partner. Ability to collaborate with a wide variety of teams, communicate effectively at all levels within the organization, skill with quantitative / qualitative analytical methodologies and tools, ability to quickly research, understand and document new processes and requirements are foundational needs for success in this role.
Responsibilities :
- Finance Requirements Document Translate complex accounting guidance and processes into system requirements. Consider end-to-end business processes, transactional flows, associated accounting impacts and required controls. Thought partner with teams to provide clarification on accounting implications and process impact, but with a system / automation perspective. Attend requirements gathering sessions, draft and deliver complete and accurate finance requirements documents, signed off by process owners being represented.
- Solution Review and Signoff Provide point of view on solution leveraging end to end knowledge of accounting processes and controls. Provide transparency on significant design decisions and process changes to finance stakeholders with point of view on risk, resource and financial impacts. Validate solution for financial implications while providing point of view on system design, gaps and deferrals with inputs on prioritization and manual workarounds.
- Testing - Align on testing approach and scenarios with tech teams, a view towards financial risks mitigation and testing the solution for finance requirements. Validate testing evidence for accuracy of accounting results, as needed. Lead User Acceptance Testing coordination with process owners.
- Change management - drive overall change management, communication and training to accounting process owners throughout the software lifecycle development process; goal is 'no surprises' for our stakeholders. Final deliverable being process hand off document to manage knowledge transfer to process owners.
- Release / Issues Management Have a risk based review of monthly system releases, identify system issues with a point of view on financial risk and manage prioritization of backlog items and defects for resolution.
Qualifications :
Bachelors degree in Accounting with minimum of 7-10 years of functional finance / business systems experience or equivalent experienceAt least five to seven years of Billing, Quote to Cash, Revenue, Accounting, Financial system implementation experience, with experience on requirements documentation, solution review and testing validation as a functional leadExperience on Oracle BRM, RevStream, Partner Revshare systems and Oracle eBusiness Suite or similar systems (such as Zuora, Billing Platform, Oracle Revenue Cloud etc.) is preferredSkills particularly important to success are :Accounting and financial domain knowledge. Deep understanding of AR, Revenue, Deferred revenue accounting, indirect tax and associated transactional flowsStrong "systems and process orientation" with demonstrated analytical thinking, organizational skills and problem solving skillsProject management skills with a proven track record of delivering projectsExcellent written and verbal communications, presentation and influencing skills, including the ability to raise issues appropriately to the right level internally and externally to resolveAble to speak "accounting" and "technical" languages for the right audiencesAbility to influence people and indirectly manage a team of people to ensure the effective execution of complex initiativesAbility to navigate complexity well and demonstrated experience managing across functions to accomplish large scale goalsMust be comfortable working in cross-functional teams and willing to voice their opinionMust be savvy to understand both business / accounting needs and the technologies to implement themHave experience identifying systemic and process risks and how to mitigate those discoveries