Manager, Accounting Operations

About the role

The role leads Accounting Operations systems and process optimization for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, ensuring a single source of truth across modules, plants, and functions. In addition to core responsibilities, the Manager drives standardization and automation across accounting and ERP workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end configuration, maintenance, and governance of accounting’s Oracle applications across OPM, Order Management, Inventory, and Financials
• Close calendars, achievements, templates, and submission protocols to drive accountability and timely, accurate financial results
• Liaise with Accounting and IT to diagnose and resolve functional setup issues and sophisticated system problems impacting close and financial reporting
• Engage with process owners to identify automation opportunities, assess feasibility, prioritize implementation, and measure realized efficiency gains
• Translate business requirements into clear deliverables: functional design specifications, use cases, and workflow/process diagrams
• Conduct end-to-end testing cycles for application improvements, ERP upgrades, and project implementations, with rigorous impact analysis and UAT sign-off
• Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Corporate Finance to align master data, mappings, and policies across modules for smooth close and reporting
• Deliver executive-ready outputs: reconciliations, variance analyses, issue logs with root-cause and corrective actions, KPI dashboards, and control health check

Requirements

• BS/BA in Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field
• 7+ years experience

Qualifications

• Drive automation of recurring close reporting, reconciliations, exception dashboards, and data quality checks
• Partner with IT on improvements and UAT
• Define model structures, hierarchies, and master data standards that enable efficient consolidation, consistent mappings, and flexible scenario analysis
• Standardize accounting definitions and cross-module controls for GL, AR, AP, FA, Inventory, and Order Management to reduce manual work and errors
• Identify and implement improvements that shorten cycle time, strengthen controls, and improve insights for stakeholders across Finance and Operations
• Translate ambiguous asks into structured solution options with assumptions, risks, effort estimates, and recommendations

Skills

To Be Considered For This Role, You Must Have:

• BS/BA in Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field
• 7+ years experience

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

$108,000.00 - $176,000.00 annually

Schedule

Not specified