Finance Transformation Manager, PMO, Project LEO Accounting

About the role

The Finance Transformation Manager for the LEO (Low Earth Orbit) Government Accounting PMO team 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 role involves working 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.
• Coordinate issue resolution of key architecture decisions between Business, Accounting, and Technology teams.
• Review 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.

Qualifications

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