Lead Finance Automation

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We are hiring for an esteemed EdTech firm.

Role: Lead Finance Automation

Department/Business: Finance/IT

Experience Range: 2-4 Years

Position Objective:

• The Finance Automation Specialist is a key member of the Emerging Technology for Finance Team.
• The position will support multiple efforts of the Project Team, with specific focus on process identification, design, and evaluating use cases for ET in those processes.
• The Emerging Technology for Finance is a Finance led initiative in conjunction with IT to assess, test, develop and implement Emerging Technologies in the Finance function. Near-term technologies include Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Data & Analytics, with longer-term technologies including In-Memory Computing, Blockchain, Cognitive Computing and Machine Learning.
• Candidate should bring knowhow of various automation interventions across Finance & Accounts value chain including both non RPA tool led interventions and RPA led interventions.
• Common tools knowledge could be around tools below, expected to know functional aspects of few of the below and will be great if certified on anyone (or combination) below:
• a) Accounts Payable tools: PRM364, Ariba, Expenzing, Zycus, or any other P2P software.
• b) Travel & Expense tools: Concur.
• c) RPA bots use cases knowledge across AP
• Should be abreast of all common Finance & Accounting concepts & practices / procedures.
• The person will anchor Finance transformation projects from functional perspective, get trained on few of the above tools and act as functional consultant / SME on F&A tools deployment, perform requirement gathering and create functional specifications document and also support RPA led projects from functional stand point for projects across Finance and Accounting areas.

Knowledge / Desired Skills

• Bachelor s degree or higher in finance, accounting, economics, IT or related discipline
• Building complex VBA scripts to automate Excel spreadsheet processes
• Manipulating data with complex Excel, VBA, Power Query Editors, Power BI, Google Tools (i.e., Spreadsheet, Forms, Data Studio etc) and SQL Coding
• 3+ years advanced experience with MS Excel, VBA and SQL scripting
• Expert level Excel skills (Conditional Formatting, Data Validation Rules, Table Manipulation, Named Ranges, Creating/Modifying connections to external data sources, Workbook/Worksheet/Cell Data Protection) and graphing to streamline business processes
• Expert level Excel VBA skills (Ability to create complex forms/functions/subroutines, Experience using constants and visibility modifiers, Programmatic manipulation of objects/tables/data connections/formulas)
• Able to debug/code difficult functions/macros using VBA
• 5+ years of Finance, IT or relevant business experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong process skills, including ability to summarize and present process flow, systems integration and control points in process design documentation
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including PowerPoint, Excel, Word and SharePoint
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills working with financial, IT and management personnel

If interested, please share your CV to kavita@careercatalysts.com