23 feb
Cognizant
Vicente López
How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?: The Senior Analyst, Financial Reporting Systems is a key participant in the administration of Cadency and Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC), including the review of processes to identify opportunities, reducing manual transactional effort, and delivering organization efficiency and effectiveness in pursuit of a best in class accounting, close, and consolidation function. The Senior Analyst is a central point of contact for the local accounting teams providing reporting, administrative and technical support relating to the Trintech Cadency and BPC processes and tools. Cadency modules employed include Certification, Close, Match, and Journals,
touching a wide range of tasks across a decentralized organization. Therefore, the Senior Analyst is required to have a broad understanding of these tasks, exhibit a high level of ownership, and is recognized for financial/business expertise gained through a series of professional assignments demonstrating increasing responsibility. Such expertise may be concentrated in a specific technical area or span multiple areas across finance and accounting. This will be a colocated position for a 6-23 months period after the migration of RTR activities to BSC.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned:
1. Provide a center of excellence level of support for Cadency and BPC, working with division accounting teams, provide training, encourage best practices, drive continuous improvement, and identify new use cases or enhancements to unlock further potential value.
2. Perform day-to-day tool maintenance of Cadency.
3. Provide technical and process support for Cadency and BPC, and enhancements, by setting up the master data in the platform, providing training to users,
coordinating with all stakeholders to ensure a smooth functionality of the tools, from initial testing to production go-live.
4. Ensure resolution of Cadency and BPC requests and incidents in an effective and timely manner and escalating to the internal IT and vendor support when warranted.
5. Coordinate and support process Cadency and BPC changes.
6. Process Cadency new release management based on an agreed project plan and attributes (change impact, tests, etc.).
7. Play a key role in the monthly close and consolidation process, including currency translation, consolidating eliminations, and financial statement presentation both from a management and legal/tax rollup perspective.
8. Demonstrate expertise and provide support to ~170 BPC end users, working with business unit, Corporate, & CAG accounting and finance teams, provide training,
encourage best practices, and drive continuous improvement.
9. Perform monthly BPC master data maintenance, ensuring that all dimensions and members are properly updated across the various BPC models and support the FP&A; function as it relates to the budget and forecast models and processes in BPC.
10. Maintain the legal/tax BPC Organization rollup and financial reports at the direction of the Income Tax team and proactively update BPC in advance of legal entity changes.
11. Maintain account mapping between the CONSOL and IRIS BPC models to facilitate head office reporting and ensure data integrity.
12. Ensure recurrent system maintenance in Cadency and BPC (daily to yearly scheduled activities) and escalate issues encountered to the appropriate technical support structure.
13. Maintain and update related written manuals,
user guides and provide support related to Cadency and BPC for queries submitted by Internal Audit and External Auditors.
14. Extract, compute and publish financial reports and operational metrics for all stakeholders.
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COMPETENCIES:
1. GL cloud-based tool administration experience preferred (e.g. Trintech-Cadency, Blackline, ARCS, etc.).
2. Experience with and understanding of US GAAP; experience with IFRS is a plus.
3. Consolidation and month-end close experience.
4. ERP or other general ledger computer system experience.
5. Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills.
6. Strong organizational and project management skills; demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels of the organization.
7. Able to operate at a detailed level without losing sight of the big picture.
8.
Action oriented; thrives in a dynamic environment; willing to take the initiative when the opportunity presents itself.
9. Analytical thinker, with a strong background in accounting processes and data flows.
10. Flexible/team player; comfortable changing directions mid-stream; able to work collaboratively.
REQUIREMENTS:
1. BA/BS degree, preferably in Finance or Accounting.
2. 3+ years of financial analysis experience in a public or private company environment.
3. Understanding of the end-to-end Record to Report process.
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