Accounting Systems Specialist
Savage Companies
- Midvale, UT
- Permanent
- Full-time
- A culture that appreciates our Team Members
- Paid Time Off (“PTO”) and paid holidays
- Profit Sharing
- Excellent benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k)
- Paid Parental and Uniformed Services leave
- Provide functional administrative support for related systems.
- Work directly with the Financial Systems Manager to interact with users within finance, accounting, and operational organizations.
- Assist in performing audit and compliance checks/analyses/investigations of system configurations.
- Assist with regularly scheduled releases and upgrades of systems and maintain testing plans for each system.
- Perform ongoing system setup and maintenance (chart of accounts, ledger structures, security, reporting, forms, workflows, etc.)
- Facilitate alignment of financial systems and reporting to support business objectives, goals, metrics and strategies.
- Identify, develop, and deploy tools to support process improvement and business automation.
- Participate and represent financial systems in initiatives and projects.
- Monitor and troubleshoot the interaction and integration of multiple systems (interfaces, data exports, etc.).
- Support and participate in cyclical financial closing procedures (i.e. month, quarter, year-end and other various deadlines)
- 5+ years of qualified-related finance experience.
- System management experience
- Working accounting knowledge including some of the following:
- Accounting ledger structures
- Balance sheet, income statement, cash flow, etc.
- Chart of accounts
- Working knowledge of financial ERP systems including some of the following:
- Cross-validation theories
- Ledger/legal entity structure
- Security
- ERP integrations (internal/external)
- Working understanding of data analytics and reporting including:
- Creation and maintenance of reports and queries
- Advanced SQL
- KPI development
- Working knowledge of VBA, Java, and other programming languages preferred.
- The following personal traits are preferred:
- Strong analytical skills to evaluate financial processes and systems.
- Proficient use of MS Office applications including Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Strong time management skills, with the ability to manage priorities.
- Versatility, flexibility, and willingness to work within constantly changing priorities with a sense of urgency.
- Self-starter with good problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
- Able and willing to ‘think out of the box’
- Strong interpersonal and communication (both oral and written) skills and a team player.
- Able to complete tasks and meet deadlines.
- Ability to work on complex projects with general direction and minimal guidance.