Saint-Gobain North America ยท 2 weeks ago
Manager, Accounting & Reporting Financial Systems
Malvern, PA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expSaint-Gobain North America is seeking a Manager for Accounting and Reporting Financial Systems to serve as the primary contact for the Region business units. This role involves overseeing financial systems, ensuring compliance, and providing support for financial reporting and system integrations.
Building MaterialReal Estate
Responsibilities
Act as a vital service lead for the Saint Gobain Region Business Units, and NA SSC financial communities overseeing the financial system ensuring consistent performance of the Region (ie: CertainTeed) financial system modules and all financial modules integration with General Ledger
Leverages system technical, business, and accounting knowledge to lead/support cross-functional teams in the design, development and maintenance of the financial accounting
Ensures integrity of interfaces into SAP
Controls annual system rolls for SAP FICO modules
Functional leadership over financial system upgrade implementations, acquisition integrations and divestitures working intimately with SG IT and outside experts
Ensuring internal control compliance for master data, user profiles and proper segregation of duties is complied with
Responsible for troubleshooting and resolving system failures affecting monthly financial closings and reporting
The Manager leverages their deep system technical and financial accounting skills, participating and leading groups to create solutions meeting complex process challenges pertaining to financial accounting, reporting and maintenance requirements
Engage with the Financial Directors of the Business Units and SSC to ensure quality of financial system support services in line with established MSA and SOW
Ensures compliance with internal control requirements of the financial applications for all internal customers
Proactively seek opportunities to improve service delivery to their customers
Provide financial system close support to ensure an accurate and timely monthly system close in accordance with the closing deadlines
Maintain system process closing schedules and keep current
Oversee accurate and timely closure of all SAP FICO solutions and ad hoc processed jobs, maintenance and execution of monthly allocations, internal order settlements, recurring entry execution jobs, and currency revaluation
Troubleshooting for Business units to resolve system issues during and outside of the close cycle
Support the systematic compilation of monthly financial reporting for SAP, Magnitude and Statutory reporting requirements
Maintain hierarchical and GL account relationships of FICO
Oversee consolidation for statutory legal entity tax requirements
Provide analytical troubleshooting support
Provide analytical support to Business Units as requested
System administrator support for Blackline for all GL accounts for all NA Businesses using Blackline
Maintain user access and Blackline settings
Provide Blackline training and support implementation of enhancements
Lead or support Blackline advancements
Review internal controls, assess compliance, and remediate compliance gaps; improve accounting systems processes and related internal controls with a focus on continuous improvement initiatives
Review access controls and remediate non-compliant access situations including SOD
Lead for SSC in SAP Security Council
Support SAP journal extraction processes
Coordinate legal entity data extractions for S&U tax audits
Provide intimate leadership and support with integration of newly acquired entities into SAP
Design and implement master data structures for new entities including integration with other SAP modules and external applications
Coordinate legacy system data conversions
Lead representative for SSC on new ERP implementations pertaining to GL and related master data
Qualification
Required
BS Business Administration/Accounting and/or Financial Information Systems
Professional certification (CPA, CMA, PMP) a plus
Deep experience with integrated ERP and financial reporting systems required
10-15 years General Accounting and Financial Systems experience with emphasis on large integrated accounting and reporting system processes required
Demonstrated system implementation and entity integration experience with financial data and modules
Strong knowledge of and demonstrated experience with tax accounting for fixed assets, Sales & Use tax, Federal & State income tax and related tax reporting requirements as it pertains to financial system configurations
Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain business relationships outside of functional area
Demonstrated experience in business analysis, consulting, process engineering or solutions management or other related area
Preferred
Advanced Degree preferred
SAP and S4 Hana experience preferred
Familiarity with a complex international business is preferred
Benefits
Medical, Prescription Drug, Vision, and Dental Insurance
Healthcare Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account options
LiveWell Wellness Program
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave
401(k) with Company Match, Retirement Accumulation Plan (RAP) Cash Balance Pension Plan
Company-provided Life Insurance, AD&D, Short-Term Disability
Voluntary employee and dependent life insurance, Long-Term Disability, Critical Illness and
Accident Insurance
Commuter Benefits
Group Legal
Identity Theft Protection
Auto and Home Insurance
Pet Insurance and Discounts
Back-up Child and Elder Care
PerkSpot Employee Discount Program
Volunteer Day
Company
Saint-Gobain North America
Saint-Gobain North America is a building materials company that provides interior and exterior building products
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Mark Rayfield
Chief Executive Officer
T
Tom Pier
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
2025-11-29
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