Financial Systems & AI Enablement Manager

Essential Functions

• Financial Systems & Reporting

• Serve as an advanced finance systems resource for KEEN’s core financial planning, reporting, and consolidation systems, including SAP, Adaptive Analytics, and related FP&A data flows.
• Support system configuration, user provisioning, security access, metadata updates, release testing, and ongoing system enhancements in partnership with Finance, Accounting, and GBT stakeholders.
• Maintain and update financial system structures, including chart of accounts, organizational hierarchies, cost centers, reporting dimensions, allocation rules, and integration mappings between SAP and the planning platform.
• Provide functional support to global finance users across regions by troubleshooting data, calculation, reporting, and access issues during close, forecast, budget, and Long Range Plan cycles.
• Support the SAP S/4HANA implementation and cutover for finance planning and reporting processes by gathering requirements, developing test scenarios, validating data during parallel runs, and assisting with post-go-live stabilization.
• Document system configuration, data flows, standard operating procedures, and process changes to support consistent system usage and reporting practices.

• Consolidation & Financial Reporting

• Lead the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial reporting across KEEN regions, channels, and reporting entities.
• Execute and review multi-currency consolidation activities, including foreign exchange translation, constant-currency reporting, intercompany eliminations, and reconciliation between local-currency and U.S. dollar reporting views.
• Prepare consolidated reporting packages for actuals close, forecasts, budget, Long Range Plan, and group reporting using standardized reporting and variance analysis views.
• Analyze and validate consolidated revenue, gross margin, OPEX, Operating Income, and non-financial KPI reporting to support accuracy, consistency, and timely decision-making.
• Partner with Accounting, Treasury, regional finance teams, and other stakeholders to resolve reporting issues, improve data quality, and support timely close and planning processes.
• Apply KEEN’s KPI definitions, reporting hierarchies, and consolidation standards consistently across recurring financial reporting deliverables.
• Identify and recommend process improvements to enhance reporting accuracy, efficiency, and consistency across consolidation and financial reporting activities.

• AI Enablement

• Support Finance’s AI enablement efforts by identifying, testing, and documenting AI use cases across FP&A, consolidation, and reporting workflows.
• Maintain FP&A AI reference materials, including the KPI Dictionary, Operating Manual, Company Primer, and Stakeholder Map, ensuring content remains accurate, current, and usable for finance users and AI-enabled workflows.
• Develop and maintain AI-assisted workflows for recurring finance deliverables, including variance commentary, monthly close narratives, quarterly business review materials, Board reporting, and Fuerst Group reporting.
• Evaluate and pilot AI tools and solutions that may improve finance processes, reduce manual effort, and support compatibility with future SAP environments.
• Apply established standards and guardrails for responsible AI use in Finance, including data handling, audit trails, human-in-the-loop review, and accuracy validation.
• Train and support finance users on AI-enabled processes to improve adoption, consistency, and AI literacy across the Finance function.
• Partner with the Senior Director, GBT, FP&A, and Finance leadership to support continuous improvement of the planning, reporting, and consolidation calendar, controls, and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Economics, or a related discipline required.
• Master's Degree in Business Administration or relevant professional certification (CPA, CMA, CFA) preferred.
• Minimum three (3) to five (5) years of combined experience in FP&A, financial systems administration, and/or global consolidated reporting, with demonstrated hands-on system ownership.
• Any direct experience administering an enterprise planning platform (e.g., Workday Adaptive Planning / Adaptive Analytics, Anaplan, Oracle EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud) and an ERP (SAP required).
• Three (3) years experience with global multi-currency consolidation, FX translation, and intercompany eliminations.
• Demonstrated experience deploying AI, automation, or RPA tooling in a finance context required.