Senior Manager, Finance Transformation, Project Kuiper Accounting PMO

Kuiper Accounting PMO team has an immediate opening for a Senior Manager, Finance Transformation. This role supports and directly influences the launch of Kuiper Government Services (KGS).

The Senior Manager will lead a team to work closely with the global financial systems teams, accounting operations teams, tax, finance operations, and others on new initiatives to provide integrated accounting requirements to the Kuiper business teams. Successful candidates will have deep experience in Finance, Accounting, Program Management and Finance Systems. Candidate experience should cover financial processes, project management, accounting requirements documentation, process design, and user acceptance testing responsibilities. Demonstrated experience in leading teams to accomplish unusually complex challenges is expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position.

This position is expected to have a deep sense of ownership, strong passion in solving problems and delivering results, ability to identify process improvement opportunities, drive positive change across the organization, and enhance partnerships between Accounting and various business and IT groups.

Key job responsibilities
- Influence business and tech teams to build scalable processes and mechanisms that enable the BEFLAT flywheel
- Build high performing teams of PMO professionals with diverse skills and backgrounds. This includes talent pipeline, recruitment, coaching and development.
- Review Business Requirements Documents for accounting impact, provide feedback to business stakeholders, and coordinate issues triage across accounting stakeholders
- Build detailed project plans for accounting workstreams, identifying goals, needs, and scope
- Draft Accounting Requirements Documents and related Journal Entry Mappings that meet customer needs
- Continuously identify, mitigate and track program risks
- Own accounting test planning and user acceptance testing
- Draft ad hoc issued based documents for leadership review
- Own leadership review and status update documents and meetings

A day in the life
- Check email and calendar, and plan for the day's activities
- Weekly team scrum to discuss past/current activities and potential blockers
- 1:1 with manager to deep dive program risks
- 1:1 with key business stakeholder to unblock a project workstream
- Meet with business stakeholders to review product use cases that impact accounting and provide detailed feedback
- Work on Journal Entry Mappings file ahead of accounting stakeholder review next week
- Prep for the Friday weekly leadership status meeting
- Respond to emails, wrap up day and set priorities for tomorrow

About the team
In this role, the candidate will be part of a team that collaborates with business finance and technical teams to deliver world class solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible. This person will have operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment. Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope business requirements and prioritize.