We are seeking a results-driven BlackLine Solution Architect-Controllership Transformation to play a key role on integrating newly acquired entities, driving controllership transformation, and ensuring SOX compliance.
The position is based in India and will require collaboration with the Director – Controllership Systems and Transformation based in Toronto, Canada.
What you'll do on a typical day:
- Lead onboarding of newly acquired entities into Blackline, including migration of their reconciliations, journals, and transaction matching processes.
- Design and implement reconciliation structures and templates to align acquired entities with enterprise-wide FSCP SOX compliance controls.
- Standardize and harmonize processes across entities, ensuring consistency with policies and practices.
- Partner with O2C and PTP teams to convert legacy processes into standardized BlackLine-enabled workflows.
- Develop and deliver training programs to finance users from acquired entities, enabling adoption of BlackLine.
- Support policy harmonization across the organization by embedding standard templates, approval workflows, risk ratings, frequencies and reporting structures in BlackLine.
- Drive continuous improvements and automation opportunities within BlackLine to support ongoing finance transformation.
- Track progress and provide regular status updates to leadership on project deliverables and timelines.
- Identify new matching use cases, data sources and configuring in-transit rules and implement best practices on pass rules, data sources and match sets creation.
- Setting up partial matches, universal match sets, reason codes, in-transit definitions for cross module integrations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Finance, Technology, Audit) to ensure smooth onboarding, issue resolution, and alignment with control requirements
- Provide technical support and troubleshooting assistance to cross functional teams as needed, resolving issues related to BlackLine implementation.
- Develop and maintain documentation related to system configurations, customizations, and integrations (data collection workbook).
What we're looking for:
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or related field required, CPA/CA is preferred
- 3-7 years of relevant experience in implementation of Blackline modules (Journals and Matching implementation preferred)
- Certification in different BlackLine modules – Account Reconciliation, Journal entry, Transaction Matching, Invoice to Cash, Studio 360 etc considered a very strong asset.
- Experience in M&A finance integration, including onboarding acquired entities into finance systems and processes.
- Knowledge of financial systems such as Net Suite, Oracle, Trintech, ARCS.
- Proficiency with Excel and other MS Office applications
- Strong facilitation and presentation skills
- Problem solving (ability to find it and fix it)
- The candidate must be a highly driven, high energy, focused individual that can work well with internal and external partner
