About This Role
This role leads accounting operations systems and process optimization for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, ensuring a single source of truth across modules, plants, and functions. The Manager drives standardization and automation across accounting and ERP workflows, and sets the cadence, standards, and systems discipline to deliver accurate, timely, and data-driven outputs that support monthly close, compliance, and operational decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end configuration, maintenance, and governance of accounting's Oracle applications across OPM, Order Management, Inventory, and Financials
- Govern close calendars, achievements, templates, and submission protocols to drive accountability and timely, accurate financial results
- Liaise with Accounting and IT to diagnose and resolve functional setup issues and sophisticated system problems impacting close and financial reporting
- Engage with process owners to identify automation opportunities, assess feasibility, prioritize implementation, and measure realized efficiency gains
- Translate business requirements into clear deliverables: functional design specifications, use cases, and workflow/process diagrams
- Conduct end-to-end testing cycles for application improvements, ERP upgrades, and project implementations, with rigorous impact analysis and UAT sign-off
- Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Corporate Finance to align master data, mappings, and policies across modules for smooth close and reporting
- Deliver executive-ready outputs: reconciliations, variance analyses, issue logs with root-cause and corrective actions, KPI dashboards, and control health check
Requirements
- BS/BA in Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field
- 7+ years experience
- Drive automation of recurring close reporting, reconciliations, exception dashboards, and data quality checks
- Partner with IT on improvements and UAT
- Define model structures, hierarchies, and master data standards that enable efficient consolidation, consistent mappings, and flexible scenario analysis
- Standardize accounting definitions and cross-module controls for GL, AR, AP, FA, Inventory, and Order Management to reduce manual work and errors
- Identify and implement improvements that shorten cycle time, strengthen controls, and improve insights for stakeholders across Finance and Operations
- Translate ambiguous asks into structured solution options with assumptions, risks, effort estimates, and recommendations
Benefits
- Annual bonuses or other incentive plans
- Equity awards
- Pension or retirement benefits
- 401(k) company match
- Health and wellness programs
