Blackline System Lead

Purpose:
The BlackLine System Lead acts as a primary owner and global administrator for the Blackline tool, providing day to day support, governance and oversight of the application and ensure adherence to architectural design, data management, certification controls and risk management of the company's balance sheet exposure. Additionally, the BlackLine System Administer will assist business users with identifying and implementing process improvements that produce quantifiable benefits.

Job Responsibilities

• Act as the global system administrator and subject matter expert for any issue relating to Blackline, as well as ensuring timely and accurate processing of all Blackline requests from global users.
• Provide hands-on, ongoing cross functional end-user support to ensure that BlackLine is operating efficiently across the organization.
• Coordinates and supports process changes due to ongoing business changes (onboarding transactions, fielding change requests from process owners)
• Performs necessary administrative functions of the Account Reconciliation, Transaction Matching, Journal Entry and Task Management modules, including but not limited to account setup, match rule construction, metrics, journal entry management, task management, communications to users and leadership and other functionality configurations.
• Training global administrators and users (as needed) on Blackline functionality
• Manages and enforces business policies related to reconciliations and works to ensure users complete reconciliations in a timely manner.
• Liaison with IT on user issues, application upgrades, system maintenance and projects as it relates to BlackLine and other integrations to/from the tool. Performing ongoing application maintenance; coordinate upgrade, development, testing and implementation of application enhancements with users and IT.
• Testing BlackLine software to ensure newly implemented and existing functionality is working as intended.
• Collaborate with internal and external business partners to identify inefficient processes and drive the implementation of solutions that deliver improved efficiencies and processes using technology as an enabler.
• Work with business users to develop and track quantifiable metrics to drive process improvements.
• Serve as a source of expert advice, influence change, frame information in a broader organizational context
• Provide leadership guidance, make recommendations, and collaborate with business to ensure solutions meets the business needs
• Stay abreast of new functionality becoming available and drive the deployment of feature releases

Skills:

• System administration experience with Transaction Matching, Accounts Reconciliations, Journals, and Task Management modules
• Ability to manage time commitment amongst multiple projects simultaneously
• Must possess both outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Expert in building and maintain relationships with leadership, stakeholders, and delivery teams
• Experience developing reporting, analytics, and dashboards
• Experience configuring match sets rules, approval workflows, risk ratings and provisioning user access
• Must be proficient using Microsoft Office products including Word, Power Point, Excel, and Outlook.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience
• 3+ years of experience as a BlackLine Administrator and/or Strategist
• Working knowledge in Finance Systems, particularly around reconciliation tools like Blackline, Cadency or Oracle ARCS, BlackLine preferred (Account Reconciliation, Transaction Matching, Journal Entry, Task Management). Experience with Variance Analysis a plus
• Possess a good understanding of Core Financials processes, accounting practices, and SOX compliance
• Experience with multi basis of accounting (e.g., GAAP and STAT)
• Experience gathering requirements, probing into problems, facilitating meetings, documenting specifications, and coordinating projects
• Experience with process improvement projects and continuous improvement methodologies
• Experience with Windows 10, MS Word, Excel, Access, Power Point
  
  

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