Job Description
Object Technology Solutions, Inc(OTSI) has an immediate opening for a General Accounting Manager
General Accounting Manager (Boise, ID - Onsite)
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITES:
• The Senior AP Deployment Specialist serves as a dedicated Accounts Payable Operations representative assigned full-time to the global invoice intake and processing transformation program.
• Acting as the AP Operations throughout the deployment lifecycle, the role supports discovery, process reviews, business requirement validation, testing, deployment readiness, go-live, hyper-care, and stabilization activities.
• The position operates separately from day-to-day Accounts Payable processing teams, allowing business-as-usual operations to remain focused on service delivery while dedicated AP deployment specialists support the transformation program full-time.
• Working closely with country AP teams, the AP Process Transformation & AI Deployment Specialist, Change Management & Training Lead, project teams, and technology partners, the Senior AP Deployment Specialist helps ensure future-state solutions are practical, sustainable, compliant, and aligned with real-world AP operating requirements.
• AP Business Ownership
• Throughout discovery, design validation, testing, deployment, hyper-care, and stabilization the AP operations activities
• Ensure documented requirements and configured solutions accurately reflect AP operational needs, controls, exception handling practices, and business requirements.
• Act as the primary working-level representative between AP Operations and the deployment program.
• Champion AP user readiness, operational adoption, and long-term sustainability of future-state processes
SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
1. Discovery & Country Requirements
• Participate in country discovery workshops, process walkthroughs, and design discussions.
• Demonstrate and explain current-state AP processes, controls, approval of workflows, exception handling, and operational practices.
• Identify country-specific legal, tax, regulatory, compliance, language, and operational requirements.
• Validate that local requirements are correctly understood and documented.
• Assess operational impacts associated with proposed future-state processes.
2. Process Validation & Future-State Readiness
• Review and validate Process Design Documents (PDDs), business requirements, process flows, controls, exception scenarios, and operating procedures.
• Confirm that future-state processes accurately reflect AP operational requirements and business realities.
• Evaluate how future-state processes will be operated, supported, and governed by AP after deployment.
• Identify operational gaps, support requirements, ownership requirements, and adoption risks.
• Validate that future-state solutions are scalable, sustainable, and practical for long-term AP operations.
3. Business Validation & User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Develop end-to-end UAT scenarios and business test scripts based on real AP operational activities, controls, and exception handling requirements.
• Prepare and maintain required business test data.
• Execute UAT and validate solutions against approved business requirements.
• Confirm that business outcomes are achieved, not solely that system functions operate.
• Identify defects, process gaps, usability concerns, operational impacts, and business risks.
• Support defect triage, retesting, and business sign-off activities.
SIT ownership: System Integration Testing is performed by the implementation and development teams. The Senior AP Deployment Specialist focuses on business validation and UAT activities.
4. Deployment Readiness & Go-Live Support
• Support deployment planning, readiness assessments, cutover activities, and country go-live preparations.
• Confirm operational readiness across users, controls, work instructions, exception handling procedures, and support processes.
• Coordinate deployment of readiness activities with country AP teams.
• Validate user preparedness and operational readiness before deployment.
• Support business go-live activities and the transition into production operations.
5. Hypercare & Stabilization
• Act as an AP User during go-live and hyper-care activities.
• Support issue identification, investigation, prioritization, escalation, and resolution.
• Monitor user adoption, operational effectiveness, exception trends, and process performance.
• Support the transition from project deployment to steady-state AP ownership and operations.
• Validate that AP teams are fully prepared to own and sustain future-state processes.
6. AP Operations & Continuous Improvement
• Identify opportunities to improve process effectiveness, user experience, controls, and operational efficiency.
• Capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement activities for future deployment waves.
• Promote the adoption of standardized global processes across countries.
• Support AP adoption of intelligent automation and future AI-enabled capabilities.
• Provide operational feedback to guide future solution enhancements and country rollouts.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in Accounts Payable, Procure-to-Pay, Shared Services, Finance Operations, or AP transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of invoice processing, approvals, exception management, controls, and payment of readiness processes.
• Experience participating in UAT, deployment, go-live, hyper-care, or operational improvement initiatives.
• Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively across global teams and multiple countries.
• Experience with SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA is preferred
• Experience supporting ERP, invoice processing, workflow, or automation deployments.
• Exposure to intelligent document processing, workflow automation, RPA, or AI-enabled finance solutions.
• Experience supporting global or multi-country transformation programs.
• Experience in Shared Services or Global Business Services organizations.
