Specialist Manager, Firm Financial Systems

Deloitte Deloitte · Consulting

This role focuses on improving finance transformation by enhancing accounting processes, controls, and technologies like SAP S/4HANA and SWIFT. It involves partnering with business and technology teams to resolve system/process issues, define requirements, and deliver scalable solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead resolution of complex finance system and process issues across Core Finance
  2. Partner with business and technology teams to translate needs into scalable solutions
  3. Support and enhance finance technologies, including SAP S/4HANA, SWIFT, and related applications
  4. Analyze accounting and operational impacts of system changes and process improvements
  5. Define business requirements and support testing and implementation activities

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • 6+ years of relevant experience in accounting, finance operations, financial systems, ERP-enabled transformation, or related areas.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting SAP, including SAP S/4HANA, in a finance, controllership, or accounting-focused environment.
  • Strong understanding of accounting operations, financial reporting, reconciliations, close processes, and internal control concepts.
  • Experience gathering business requirements and partnering with technical teams to implement finance or accounting system solutions.
  • Experience researching system and process issues, performing root cause analysis, and driving cross-functional resolution.
  • Ability to assess finance workflows for efficiency, control effectiveness, and reporting accuracy.
  • Experience supporting testing activities for finance-related system changes, including user acceptance testing and validation of accounting outcomes.
  • Strong communication skills, including the ability to work effectively across business and technical teams.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and lead through ambiguity in a complex stakeholder environment.
  • Experience supporting Treasury operations, SWIFT messaging, payment processes, or bank connectivity environments.
  • Familiarity with financial data governance, master data integrity, and control considerations within ERP environments.

Nice to have

  • Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
  • Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
  • Ability to lead projects or workstreams
  • Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
  • Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
  • Ability to meet deadlines
  • Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others

What the JD emphasized

  • SAP S/4HANA
  • finance transformation
  • accounting operations
  • financial reporting
  • internal control concepts
  • testing activities
  • SWIFT messaging
  • payment processes
  • bank connectivity environments