Job Description

Job Description

Financial Systems Director

Corporate Controller

Full-Time

Boston, MA or Springfield, MA

The Opportunity

As a Financial Systems Director, Finance APEX Transformation, you will be responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of our Sub-ledger and General Ledger modules (primarily SAP ERP ecosystem) to support improvements to finance operations. Skillset should be a mix of both finance acumen and system capabilities. This role will oversee end-to-end business process design, documentation, requirements finalization and technology solution design work. This role will also partner with our Enterprise Technology and Experience (ETX) business group in finalizing functional and technical specifications, and accountable for end-to-end implementation and testing work.

The Team

This role aligns under Head of Solutions, Design and Implementation, which is part of the Controllers group, and partners with Corporate IT, 3rd party Vendors and business users/leaders across Close, Reporting, FP&A, Data Mgmt. etc. The team is leading the charge to improve efficiency and operations as they relate to the Ledger, Sub-Ledger and Allocation functional capabilities. This team continues to evolve and will provide candidates with growth opportunities.

The Impact

• Accountability: Subject matter expert for workstreams in SAP S/4 HANA in partnership with IT and offshore partners.

• Business Acumen: Understand the end-to-end processes, including cross functional impacts and dependencies.

• Inclusion: Lead Use Case formulation, as-is/to-be analysis, product demos, joint application development for processes & SAP capabilities. Share SAP and industry best practices and knowledge, and personal expertise to educate our business processes.

• Resilience: Understand how data flows through financial systems to accounting function, while planning appropriately for changes with prioritizations. Establish and enhance governance and internal control procedures.

• Development: Lead SAP centric process changes in alignment with accounting policy for evaluation and implementation of new GAAP/Statutory reporting requirements.

• Leading Others: Collaborate closely with other business areas, such as controllers and financial close teams to support accounting of transactions/events. Lend tactical support as needed peer teams.

• Agility: Coordinate/Collaborate across Finance, enterprise technology, internal audit, enterprise risk, other business units & external audit, as appropriate. Guides the team in establishing effective control/governance for reports/dashboards with tight milestones for successful execution.

The Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, IT, or another similar field

• 8+ years of experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with SAP ERP and/or SAP S/4 HANA implementations and/or a Consolidations tool

The Ideal Qualifications

• MBA or equivalent and/or Certified Public Accountant preferred

• Experience leading implementing an of SAP General Ledger, FX Revaluation and Translation model, SAP Allocations tools (such as COPA, Universal Allocation or PAPM) and/or Financial Products Sub-Ledger (FPSL)

• Experience in other SAP products - SAP BW, BusinessObjects, SAP BPC, SAP Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Analysis for Office (AO), Fiori

• Knowledge of US GAAP, insurance statutory accounting/reporting and/or experience in Financial Institutions preferred

• Ability to proactively take ownership of projects and drive to completion while reporting on status, risks, mitigation strategies.

• Ability to work with senior management, business, and IT areas to influence decision making

• Strong multi-tasking skills and ability to adapt to change

• Experience working in a Finance transformation setting & driving change. Operate as a change advocate, supporting business users in testing, training and hand off of new functionality.

What to expect as part of MassMutual and the Team

• Regular meetings with your team

• Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager

• Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQ, Veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups

• Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms

• Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits

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