Finance Transformation Manager, PMO, Project LEO Accounting

About the role

The Finance Transformation Manager supports and directly influences the launch of LEO Government product and programs across multiple verticals: satellite manufacturing, ground gateway terminals and customer terminals and Technology support teams. The program manager works closely with partner financial systems teams, accounting operations teams, tax, finance operations, and others on new initiatives to provide integrated accounting requirements to the LEO Government business teams.

Responsibilities

• Document Accounting requirements to cross functional stakeholders.
• Cook up issue resolution of key architecture decisions between Business, Accounting, and Technology teams.
• Coordinate Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and how best to implement accounting requirements within the SAP modules (Inventory, AR, AP, Manufacturing etc..).
• Ensure migration to new SAP modules in accordance with GAAP principles.
• Build project plans for accounting workstreams, identifying goals, needs, and scope.
• Draft Accounting Requirements Documents (ARDs) and related Journal Entry Mappings (JEMs) that meet customer needs.
• Continuously identify/track and mitigate program risks and issues and accelerate decision making.
• Own accounting test planning and user acceptance testing.
• Draft ad hoc issues based documents for leadership review.
• Own leadership review and status update documents and meetings.
• Plan and prioritize daily and near term activities, represent Accounting’s interests during project rollout planning initiatives.
• Join 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 end to end process and detailed accounting use-cases while gathering feedback to drive clarity for solution design.
• Explain CAS and GAAP differences to stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Work on Journal Entry Mappings file ahead of accounting stakeholder reviews.
• Meet with leadership for weekly status updates.
• Respond to emails, wrap up day and set upcoming priorities.
• Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

  Qualifications

  • 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field.
  • Preferred: CPA, Knowledge of internal control framework (specifically COSO), to assess control design and operational efficiency, Knowledge of GAAP research tools and the FASB codification, Experience in accounting management in Big Four with Fortune 500 clients, Experience researching and documenting support for accounting conclusions.