Senior Director, Accounting Systems

About the role

The Senior Director, Accounting Systems will lead Novolex’s Finance-owned accounting systems capabilities, including consolidation, close enablement, financial data governance, and reporting integrity across a complex, multi-ERP environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead Finance-side administration, governance, and continuous improvement of core accounting systems, including consolidation and close tools such as OneStream and BlackLine, across multiple ERP environments.
• Deliver consistent, reliable financial outputs in a fragmented systems landscape.
• Define and maintain the Finance-owned systems framework, including accounting requirements, consolidation design, close dependencies, reporting structures, financial hierarchies, and governance routines.
• Own the end-to-end consolidation process, including OneStream Finance outcomes, consolidation design, close calendar dependencies, and reporting integrity.
• Ensure close and reporting processes are accurate, timely, controlled, repeatable, and sustainable.
• Improve transparency and control over consolidated results and serve as the Finance escalation point for complex accounting, close, consolidation, and reporting issues.
• Define data mappings, chart of accounts alignment, hierarchies, metadata, transformation logic, reconciliation expectations, and financial reporting requirements.
• Partner with IT to embed Finance requirements into enterprise data and reporting solutions.
• Ensure financial data is complete, consistent, traceable, and reliable across accounting systems, consolidation platforms, and reporting outputs.
• Partner with IT to translate Finance requirements into system configuration, integrations, releases, enhancements, support processes, and vendor actions.
• Provide Finance prioritization and acceptance criteria for technology changes that affect accounting systems, consolidation, close, reporting, and financial data flows.
• Ensure Finance requirements are clearly defined before technology teams execute extraction, integration, automation, or platform changes.
• Enable consistent, reliable financial data for reporting and analytics.
• Support the transition to scalable, decision-grade financial reporting.
• Align accounting outputs, enterprise reporting structures, and Finance-approved definitions.
• Represent accounting systems in broader finance, ERP, data, and reporting transformation initiatives.
• Translate accounting, close, consolidation, and reporting needs into practical system and data improvements.
• Drive Finance readiness, process adoption, data validation, and business acceptance for system and reporting changes.
• Establish and maintain Finance-owned controls over metadata, hierarchy updates, mapping changes, consolidation rules, reporting logic, and close-related processes.
• Partner with IT to ensure SOX, ITGC, access, release, integration, and cybersecurity controls are appropriately designed and executed.
• Support internal and external audit requirements with clear documentation of Finance-owned system and data governance decisions.
• Lead and develop the Accounting Systems team.
• Assess and realign team structure to support future-state systems, data integration, consolidation, and reporting needs.
• Build scalable Finance capabilities in systems governance, data validation, close support, and reporting enablement.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in accounting, finance systems, consolidation, financial reporting, or related roles.
• Direct experience owning financial consolidation across multiple ERP systems into a centralized platform such as OneStream, Hyperion, or a similar tool.
• Hands-on experience defining and managing data mappings, chart of accounts alignment, hierarchies, metadata, and cross-system reconciliations.
• Proven ability to deliver consistent, accurate consolidated results in fragmented systems environments.
• Strong understanding of financial close, consolidation, reporting, controls, and US GAAP requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with IT, Data & Analytics, and business teams on system, reporting, and integration initiatives.
• Experience leading teams and driving cross-functional Finance transformation efforts.
• Experience working in environments with multiple ERP systems and complex integration challenges.
• Experience supporting or contributing to enterprise data and analytics transformations.
• Strong understanding of financial data structures, hierarchies, consolidation logic, and governance frameworks.
• Experience improving close, consolidation, or reporting processes in complex environments.
• You can bridge accounting, systems, and data from a Finance ownership perspective.
• You are comfortable improving imperfect, evolving systems landscapes rather than waiting for ideal-state environments.
• You bring an ownership mindset and can translate accounting and reporting complexity into practical, scalable requirements.
• You can influence across Finance, IT, Data & Analytics, and business teams.