Financial Systems Support Lead

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Qualifications

Position Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university
• 6 years of experience in Administration of Finance, Accounting, and Planning applications
• 4 years of experience in implementation of industry standard financial systems
• 4 years of experience in participation in medium to complex projects
• 3 years of experience working proficiently with all skill levels of management and staff

Job Description

Financial Systems Support Lead

This role will perform a broad range of technical work including developing, coordinating and supporting the finance department's technical initiatives. In addition to participating in the monthly close process.

Partner with business colleagues across the organization and team members within Finance to understand and interpret functional requirements, translate them into technical specifications, collaborate with IT resources, and deliver solutions on existing and new platforms.

Requires collaboration with Technology to secure data requirements as well as an in-depth understanding of financial solutions to ensure accurate configuration of accounting rules.

Position Responsibilities:
Operational Excellence

• Perform operational tasks related to the monthly close process.
• Oversight of Accounting SOX applications, data and reporting to ensure timeline and accurate results.
• Review current financial and accounting processes and lead the redesign of those processes into new solutions that create efficiencies.
• Lead the business system technical implementation of configuration, testing, execution, quality assurance and delivery of initiatives.
• Lead the financial application upgrades and replacement. Partner with Finance.
• Transformation on large projects impacting applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as IT and accounting, to ensure seamless integration and alignment of finance systems.

Strategic Thinking

• Provide strategic direction related to current financial processes.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvements and efficiency gains within financial systems and work with stakeholders to prioritize and implement those improvements.
• Provides recommendations on new or enhanced systems, software, upgrades and modifications and advocates for process changes that align with business practices.
• Leverage the available technologies, best practices, industry standards, methodologies, and frameworks to define and execute on department vision and strategy.
• Ensure adherence to standards and guidelines based on industry best practices of information management within an enterprise environment encompassing data integrity and security protocols.
• Participate in reviewing biannual Workday releases; develop, test, train and deploy new Workday functionality.

Customer and Business Partnership

• Build strong client partnership with technical team. Partner with the technical team to lead system integration testing and UAT for deployments.
• Advise the business on standard methodologies to better optimize our enterprise tools.
• Collaborate internally with all levels of personnel and externally with vendors.to assist with successful transformation of new sources into Workday.
• Provide recommendations on new or enhanced systems, software, upgrades or modifications and advocates for process changes that align with business practices.
• Ensure adequate project communication and integration occurs across departments, systems, and platforms and users.
• Drive and lead collaboration with the Data Stewards on data integrity.

Risk Ownership

• Ensure all system configuration meets regulatory and corporate compliance policies.
• Actively partner with Data Stewards to ensure proper data governance.
• Faciliate and lead process with data stewards for resolution on pain points.
• Maintain and update all process documentation.
• Promote a risk-aware culture that proactively seeks to mitigate risk where appropriate.

About Comerica

We know our employees are critical to our overall success and we are dedicated to investing in their future. One of the ways we do this is to offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to recognize and reward individual performance, as well support health, well-being, development and security for our colleagues and their family. Total Rewards consists of cash compensation, development and flexible benefit programs designed to meet individual needs today and in the future. Your salary will be commensurate with your work experience and our programs are reviewed regularly to ensure each remain competitive. We are proud to offer benefits such as health and welfare programs, strong retirement benefits, and generous paid time off programs. You and your eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children, can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k) and pension, income protection benefits such as life insurance, AD D, and supplemental health programs to offset unexpected health care expenses. We also have a variety of time off programs for things like vacation, sick time, disability, and parental leave. Eligibility for some programs varies based on employment status and tenure.

Upon offer, Comerica conducts a comprehensive background and fingerprint check.

NMLS certification requirement: where applicable, a favorable background check screening, credit check, fingerprint check, and NMLS certification is required in accordance with the SAFE Act.

Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and strategically aligned into three major business segments; the Commercial Bank, the Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. Comerica's colleagues focus on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In addition to Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico.

Comerica is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer - veterans/individuals with disabilities, committed to workplace diversity.