Senior Specialist, Financial Systems - #183501

Job Description

The Senior Specialist, Financial Systems is responsible for managing and enhancing financial systems to support organizational goals across all three Shipyards’ operating businesses, functions for the ERP and related financial systems. The Senior Specialist, Financial Systems is responsible for assessing business needs, reviewing system and process controls and recommending and documenting business requirements with technical options and solutions, trouble-shooting technology issues. This includes supporting users with the various business systems, facilitating workshops, end-user training, and generating and rolling out process and procedure manuals and user learning guides.

Note: This position qualifies for an optional hybrid work schedule after 90 days of onsite work and onboarding. Employee will be subject to the terms of the Flexible Work Policy Agreement.

What You’ll Do

• Oversee, maintains and governs the data hierarchies and set-up procedures within the financial system, ensuring standardization across all operating companies.
• Identifies and supports continuous improvement initiatives to enhance systems and align with organizational goals.
• Supports redesign and change initiatives.
• Designs and maintains standard financial reports, works across business areas to document reporting requirements, analyze requirements and create solutions to fit end user needs.
• Works closely with financial reporting team on monthly, quarterly and annually close processes. Supports audit needs related to financial data.
• Runs periodic procedures to test financial system controls and ensure data integrity in the general ledger.
• Works closely with Information Technology support to ensure system settings and configurations are maintained and relevant as business needs change.
• Optimizes Seaspan's ERP system and seeking to improve business processes.
• Works collaboratively with other Seaspan businesses (e.g. Marine Group) to promote cooperation between finance teams and to ensure shared planning, execution, and data-driven decision making.
• Build data models and act as single point of contact for data structures within ERP/ Power BI systems, for finance and accounting.
• Validate and maintain automatic accounting instructions (AAI’s) against accounting standards and system processes.
• Manage and maintain the user security model, triage requests for role changes and ensure integrity of segregation of duties.
• Ability to define requirements, develop a business case, build a project plan, and lead the implementation of new programs that may run across the organization. This includes system upgrades, rollout of training tools, etc.
• Provide leadership and technical expertise on the cross-over between accounting and financial systems.
• Develop, maintain and execute an end-user training model for accounting users.
  
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• MBA is desirable.
• Professional designation CPA (CA, CMA, CGA) is required.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud desirable.
• Minimum 7 years’ work experience in a business environment; in Finance and Accounting or Information Technology. This includes experience in reporting, data management, system implementations and/or upgrades, project management, and reports writing (SAP Business Objects, Crystal Reports, etc.).
• Expert knowledge in Canadian ASPE, GAAP and related financial reporting requirements.
• 5 years’ experience managing projects is preferred.
• Minimum 3 years leading a team of finance, accounting and/or information technology professionals.
  
  
  

Why you’ll love working here

• This is a full-time, permanent position. With multiple operations and long-term projects, Seaspan employees enjoy job stability as we look ahead to build ships for decades to come .
• In addition to an annual bonus and pension plan matching, this role provides you a very competitive salary in line with the successful candidate’s experience.
• We also provide the best-in-class health and wellness benefits package for this position, including things such as extended health care (i.e. paramedical services for massage therapy, speech therapy, mental health coverage, physiotherapy, and more), dental care, vision care, life insurance, medical leave coverage, parental leave coverage, childcare benefit partnership, $500 personal spending account, and an Employee Family Assistance Program (EFAP).
• This position qualifies for an optional hybrid work schedule.
• Free on-site gym .
• Parking is included and to assist those that are using transit, we operate a complimentary shuttle bus Monday through Friday with various pick up and drop off points around North Vancouver.
  
  
  

The estimated salary for this position is $106,900 - $128,300. In determining final salary, Seaspan considers many factors including the successful Candidate’s skillset and experience as well as position location and internal equity. The final base salary offer will be at the Company’s sole discretion and presented as part of a competitive total compensation package.

About Us

Seaspan Shipyards is one of North America’s most modern shipyards and unique in its ability to provide a complete range of services including new construction, conversion, refit, repair and life-cycle maintenance work for Canada’s Coast Guard and Navy as well as commercial vessels including cruise-ships and deep-sea vessels. Seaspan Shipyards operations include Vancouver Shipyards, Vancouver Drydock and Victoria Shipyards.

To learn more, visit our website: www.seaspan.com

This position may involve defense articles and/or technical data regulated by the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) and the U.S. Arms Export Control Act. In compliance with ITAR, the successful candidate will be subject to a security clearance through the Canadian Controlled Goods Program as regulated by the Controlled Goods Regulations and Defense Production Act. The successful candidate will be required to maintain their security clearance throughout their employment in this position.

Seaspan is committed to Employment Equity, supports diversity in the workplace, and encourages applications from all qualified individuals including, women, members of visible minorities, Indigenous persons, and persons with disabilities. Furthermore, we are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible environment. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please let us know, and we will work with you to support your request.