Manager, Finance Systems

Overview The Manager, Finance Systems  is a hands-on finance systems leader responsible for enabling and sustaining East Penn’s finance operating model through SAP and ERP transformation. This standalone (individual contributor) role serves as Finance’s digital guardian and designated Business Process Owner for Finance within the following end-to-end SAP workstreams: Asset Management — Acquire to Dispose; Financial Management — Costing and Record to Report . The role owns business-process outcomes, decision rights, requirements, controls, acceptance criteria, and continuous improvement from implementation through go-live, hyper care, and steady-state operations. It also owns finance master data structure and change control (e.g., profit centers, cost centers, company codes, hierarchies) and ensures system configuration, reporting, integrations, and controls aligning with business requirements and GAAP. Responsibilities SAP Business Process Ownership and Transformation (Finance). Serve as Finance’s designated Business Process Owner for Asset Management — Acquire to Dispose; Financial Management — Costing and Record to Report; with accountability spanning process discovery and design, implementation, go-live, hypercare, transition to steady state, and ongoing optimization. • Own the end-to-end business-process vision, scope, policies, controls, KPIs, decision rights, and target outcomes for the assigned Finance workstreams.• Lead Finance participation in fit-to-standard workshops; approve future-state processes, business requirements, process deviations, key design decisions, and Finance acceptance criteria, escalating material tradeoffs when appropriate.• Coordinate Finance subject matter experts and partner with SAP Business Analysts, IT, and implementation teams to translate approved requirements into integrated system design, configuration, data, security, controls, interfaces, and reporting outcomes.• Own Finance readiness and business acceptance, including process documentation, test-scenario coverage, UAT participation and signoff, data validation and reconciliation, role readiness, training, cutover criteria, and go-live approval recommendations.• Lead hypercare for the assigned workstreams by governing issue intake, severity and prioritization, business workarounds, defect resolution, release decisions, outcome validation, and stakeholder communications.• Approve transition from hypercare to steady-state support based on defined exit criteria, including process stability, reconciled data, operating controls, completed documentation, trained users, acceptable service levels, and clear support ownership.• After hypercare, remain accountable for process performance and governance through KPI reviews, control monitoring, enhancement prioritization, release acceptance, policy and procedure updates, adoption reinforcement, and continuous improvement.Workstream-Specific Accountability. Provide integrated ownership across the Finance components of each assigned workstream:• Asset Management — Acquire to Dispose: Own Finance requirements and controls across asset planning and acquisition, asset-under-construction and capitalization, asset master data and equipment linkage, depreciation, transfers, physical verification, impairment, retirement and disposal, reconciliation, and asset reporting.• Financial Management — Costing and Record to Report: Own Finance process outcomes across the chart of accounts and organizational dimensions, product and inventory costing, allocations, journal processing, subledger-to-ledger integration, reconciliations, period-end close, consolidation interfaces, management and statutory reporting, and related controls.• Budgeting — Forecast to Budget: Own the integrated planning process and system requirements for assumptions, driver-based forecasts, annual budgets, workflow and approvals, version and scenario control, actual-to-plan integration, reporting, and coordination with FP&A and business owners. Finance Data Model, Master Data & Governance (Digital Guardian). Own finance master data design and governance in partnership with Finance leadership and IT (e.g., cost centers, profit centers, company codes, plants/locations, GL-related mappings and hierarchies as applicable). • Establish and run change control for finance data and configuration: intake, impact assessment, approvals, segregation of duties, testing, and documentation.• Maintain data standards, naming conventions, and definitions, drive data quality monitoring and remediation with process owners and shared services.• Ensure finance reporting structures support close, management reporting, allocations, and analytics—minimizing manual workarounds.• Support future-state design across Procure-to-Pay, Quote-to-Cash, and Record-to-Report, ensuring finance requirements, controls, and data needs are integrated end-to-end.• Partner with Shared Services and Accounting to define handoffs, roles, and exception routines that enable scalable, standardized execution.• Drive resolution of cross-process issues (e.g., master data dependencies, posting logic, workflow approvals, integration breaks) that impact cycle time, close, or service levels.• Ensure process designs avoid fragmented local solutions and support a single, governed finance operating model.• Define and govern finance data definitions and reporting logic (e.g., management P&L by division/location, cost center/profit center rollups) to ensure consistency and trust in outputs.• Partner with FP&A and Accounting to improve standard reporting packs, close/operational dashboards, and self-service reporting where appropriate.• Support integration of upstream/downstream data flows and interfaces that feed finance reporting; monitor and help resolve data breaks quickly.• Ensure system/process designs maintain or strengthen internal controls (approvals, audit trails, segregation of duties) and align with Finance policy and compliance needs.• Mainta