Senior Financial Systems Analyst

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.

HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com

The primary focus of this role will be to support the Revenue Accounting and Financial Reporting Teams to facilitate Financial Systems and Process Improvements. Support ongoing usage and maintenance of the Revenue Management System. Provide day-to-day production support; play a lead role in system development, upgrade projects, divisional implementations and integration of new acquisitions with a focus on Revenue Recognition and Financial Reporting.  Develop policies, procedures and documentation to provide a measure of consistency in processes, reporting and decisions by users.
 

PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Provide day to day production support for assigned processes, business and reporting systems 
• Perform as the functional lead and own overall responsibility of assignments. 
• Work cooperatively with Accounting and other FIS staff to troubleshoot technical issues.
• Develop and design new reports as requested by user community.
• Ensure reports and processes are completed timely and accurately.  Ensure all system generated reports are reliable and without error.
• Ensure that all material issues are promptly communicated to manager.
   
• Play a lead/key role in system development, upgrade projects, Business Unit implementations and integration of new acquisitions.
• Support the ongoing usage and maintenance of the Revenue Management System.
• Participate in system upgrades, including requirements gathering and documentation, functional design documentation, configuration setup, testing and training.
• Continue to learn about the SAP modules supported and identify opportunities to implement advanced features or identify existing functionality suitable to current processes.
• Ensure timely integration of new acquisitions into the HMH framework.
   
• Develop policies, procedures and documentation to provide a measure of consistency in processes, reporting and decisions by users. 
• Develop policies and procedures for new processes and additional functionality identified within SAP.
• Review policies and procedures quarterly to ensure all are current for any process changes
   
• Participate in special projects and information requests. 
• Take leadership role in the department with regards to higher level projects for system and process improvements.
• Contribute solutions and guidance in improving department processes. 
• Consider special projects and information requests to be the same as normal day-to-day responsibilities.
   
• Continued development of skills.
• Hold training sessions with group to share knowledge acquired.
• Develop general understanding of company’s lines of business and company policies and procedures.

Requirements:      

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE 
•    Required: BS in Accounting, Finance, Accounting Information Systems or Management Information Systems.

 •   Minimum of three years SAP experience.

Skills:
•    Advanced knowledge of SAP, Tableau and Microsoft Office products Excel, Word and Access.  

•    Excellent organizational and analytical skills. 
•    SQL experience is a plus. 

 
Competencies:
•    Strong written and oral communication and listening skills.  

•    Strong team player and self-starter.  
•    Functional understanding of financial and operational business processes and reporting.  
•    Ability to define and design business processes and reporting within critical business applications.   
•    Ability to manage a project work plan in accordance with defined best practices.  
•    Ability to identify and resolve issues. 
•    Technical awareness of trends and issues in the financial software marketplace. 
•    Experience manipulating large datasets.        

Salary range: $78 - 88,000

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