Sr. Finance Reporting Engineer

This position is ideal for senior-level professionals to join the Finance Systems & Reporting team as a Sr. Finance Reporting Engineer. The Finance Engineer will report to the Director, Global Finance Systems & Reporting based in San Jose, California (US) and strategically engage with key members of the finance function, defining and delivering on enterprise roadmap projects as well as owning and resolving day-to-day tactical problems and challenges.

About the role

The Sr. Finance Reporting Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise financial reporting and analytics solutions. This role focuses on delivering accurate, scalable, and automated reporting capabilities by leveraging SAP technologies, cloud-based data platforms, and business intelligence tools to support strategic decision-making across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the financial reporting life cycle end-to-end, including conducting requirement gathering sessions with business, designing the reporting solution, development, deployment, maintenance, and training of the reporting solution to a broader regional audience.
• Oversee the design and development for the planning system, OneStream, and be prepared to use other planning and reporting tools used at Align, including ERP, Consolidation Planning, and Business Intelligence software packages.
• Support financial close activities through data reconciliation, validation, and coordination of data loads for month-end, quarter-end, and year-end reporting.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and integration workflows to ensure accurate and efficient data processing across systems.
• Monitor data flows, task chains, and job performance; implement data quality controls and validation processes; troubleshoot and resolve data load issues; and optimize data transformation and loading performance.
• Develop and troubleshoot a variety of OneStream components that include transformation rules, security models, custom dashboards, reports, business rules, and member formulas, with a focus on enhancing system functionality and efficiency.
• Lead the collaboration and development efforts for various financial Power BI dashboards required for finance, making analytics easier and reporting simplified for business while maintaining data accuracy standards as required for financial reporting.
• Act as a liaison between business and IT groups. Work with IT to help them understand business requirements and translate them into technical terminology. Help business understand the technical solutions deployed and train them on how to use them effectively.
• Identify gaps with existing solutions, find solutions to resolve them, and work with IT/business to get them implemented.
• Lead integration testing and user acceptance testing with business and IT collaboratively.
• Serve as a key personnel responsible for financial close reporting of critical reports.
• Ensure financial data integrity and completeness for all finance data needed for financial close reporting.
• Comply with data security and access control standards, maintain thorough process documentation, and provide production support, including participation in on-call rotations with the offshore team when required.
• Assist with special projects and ad-hoc requests, as necessary.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in data loading and monitoring systems to support the Finance organization.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting, FP&A, close processes, and management reporting.
• Hands-on experience with SAP Datasphere for data modeling, data warehousing, integration, and governance across SAP and non-SAP landscapes.
• Strong understanding of SAP RTR business processes; hands-on experience working with FI-GL, COPA, AR/AP.
• Hands-on experience working with OneStream planning system or similar planning platforms such as Anaplan, Planful.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and object-oriented (VB.Net, C#) coding experience is preferred.

Skills

• Self-starter who is able to work with minimal direction and exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.
• Serve as a liaison between the finance user group, corporate report development team, and IT.
• Team player with good interpersonal and communication skills, reflecting an ability to be patient and outgoing with people.
• Highly motivated, result-focused, and act with a high sense of urgency.
• Excellent planning and prioritization skills with the ability to multitask and adapt to change.
• Advanced Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills.
• Ability to independently create spreadsheets and perform quantitative analysis.
• Prior experience working with Azure Datalake, S/4 HANA, SAP-ECC, or SAP BW is a plus.

Pay

Compensation range: $170,900 - $235,000 per year. If provided, base salary or wage rate ranges are the range in which Align reasonably expects to set a candidate’s pay for the posted position. Actual placement depends on the individual skills and experience level of a candidate plus the total compensation and equity across team members. For other locations outside of the primary location, the base salary range will be adjusted geographically.

Benefits

Family Benefits

• Medical (with a Health Savings Account option for some plan offerings), dental, and vision for employees and their eligible dependents.
• Discounts on Invisalign and Vivera to employees and their eligible dependents after 90 days of employment.
• Back-up Child/Elder Care and access to a caregiving concierge.
• Family Forming Benefits – Available to employees and their spouse or domestic partner, covered under one of Align’s health plans.
• Breast Milk Delivery and Lactation Support Services.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Hinge Health Virtual Physical Therapy – Available to all employees and eligible dependents (age 18+) enrolled in an Align medical plan.

Employee Benefits

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Basic Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment. Voluntary Supplemental Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse/Domestic Partner, and Child(ren).
• Flexible Spending Accounts – health care account (including a limited health FSA if enrolled in a HDHP), dependent care account, and a pre-tax commuter benefit plan.
• 401k plan (with a discretionary Company match of 50% up to 6% of eligible earnings up to a maximum match of 3%). Employer match vests after two years – 25% year one and 100% at year two. Traditional, Roth, and after-tax options available.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (Employees must work 20 hours or more and be employed on purchase date to be eligible).
• Paid vacation of up to 17 days during the first full year of employment (currently accrued at the rate of 5.24 hours each pay-period), which carries over to a maximum cap of 30 days. Annual paid vacation time accrual increases based on tenure. Both exempt and non-exempt employees who work 32 hours or more per week receive prorated vacation accrual based on their regularly scheduled work hours and tenure.
• Sick time accrued at the rate of one hour for every thirty worked, up to a maximum balance of 80 hours.
• 11 Company-designated paid holidays throughout the year.
• Up to 6 weeks of paid Parental Leave if employed for at least 12 consecutive months; up to 4 weeks if employed for less than 12 consecutive months. All parental leave must be completed within one year of the birth or placement of the child. Parental leave is in addition to any state and/or local parental leave benefits.
• Three days of paid bereavement leave (may be extended to 5 paid days off in cases requiring travel).
• Non-exempt employees will receive full pay for up to 10 days of jury duty. Exempt employees will receive their full salary during any week they serve and perform any work.

Other Insurance

• Legal, critical illness, voluntary accident, long-term care, auto, home, and pet insurance available for purchase.