The Advisor, Accountant - Expense Accounting & Transformation role at Jack Henry is an exciting opportunity for an experienced accounting and finance professional who enjoys connecting strong controllership with business partnership, process improvement, and transformation. This role serves as a key accounting resource for enterprise expense management, helping ensure expense-related financial results are complete, accurate, and timely while providing meaningful insight into expense trends, accruals, reserves, risks, and opportunities. The position partners closely with Business Segment Controllers, Finance Business Partners, Shared Services, Accounts Payable, Procurement, Business Transformation teams, and business leaders to strengthen expense management, improve accountability, and enhance end-to-end processes.
A key part of this role is looking beyond the numbers to understand what is driving results, where risks or opportunities exist, and how processes can be improved. The ideal candidate is analytical, curious, and comfortable navigating complex accounting and business issues. They should be able to translate financial information into clear insights and actionable recommendations while bringing the right partners together to solve problems and drive sustainable improvements.
In addition to supporting monthly expense accounting and close activities, this role will play an important part in Jack Henry's broader finance transformation efforts. The position serves as an accounting resource for Oracle Fusion transformation and other strategic initiatives, helping ensure accounting requirements, financial controls, reporting needs, and business objectives are incorporated into future-state processes.
We're looking for someone who can work independently, ask thoughtful questions, challenge existing processes when appropriate, and bring both an accounting and transformation mindset to the work. This is an individual contributor role with significant opportunity to influence outcomes through subject matter expertise, strong business partnership, analytical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration. If you're someone who enjoys understanding the story behind the numbers, building strong partnerships across the organization, and helping shape how Finance operates in the future, this role offers an opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
This position is a hybrid role requiring at least 1 day per week in any of the following office locations: Lenexa,KS / Springfield, MO / Monett, MO or Allen, TX.
The salary range for this position is $80,550- $139,000. This posted salary range reflects the minimum and maximum base pay we reasonably expect to offer for this role at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary above or below this range and is subject to change in the future. Individual pay is determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to: relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, performance, work schedule, travel requirements, sales or revenue targets, and overall business needs and affordability.
What you'll be responsible for:
• Owns and delivers monthly actuals reporting, providing comprehensive storytelling bridging to FBPs for the designated BU..
• Fosters collaborative partnerships and supports accurate closure of the general ledger through work with accounting teams and FBPs for the designated BU, with the following responsibilities:
• Ensures completeness and accuracy of Actuals in financial reports through thorough review during the month-end close process.
• Assists in maintaining compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for all business transactions and activities.
• Tracks, analyzes, and identifies trends in Actual Revenue and Actual Expense activities across Line of Business.
• Monitors and reports trends in Balance Sheet account balances and reconciliation status to FBPs.
• Communicates accounting trends, significant activities, and issues to the respective Finance leadership team and Finance Business Partners.
• Conducts comprehensive financial analysis to inform strategic decision-making and identify risks, implementing control measures and mitigation strategies as necessary.
• Maintains a deep understanding of operational drivers and communicates trends and insights effectively to FBPs.
• Partners with other departments to ensure alignment with accounting objectives and goals.
• Reviews and liaisons with accounting teams to set standards for balance sheet discipline and controllership like duties within business unit.
• Prepares and may present management reporting packages to senior management team. Transforms complex accounting data into user-friendly, easy-to-understand charts, graphs, and other visualizations.
• May collaborate with internal and external auditors.
• Serves as liaison with Accounting Manager to drive productivity and efficiency and owns the quality of services and accuracy of information provided.
• Fostering and building collaborative business partnering relationships with identified teams.
• May participate in strategic planning sessions to provide and guide insights and recommendations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
What you'll need to have:
• Bachelor's degree in accounting and/or finance.
• Minimum of 9 years of combination experience in the following finance categories: P&L, balance sheets, general ledger, revenue, revenue recognition.
• Must have AI experience and have participated in an ERP implementation.
• Must have Excel experience in any of the following: Vlookups, pivots or SQL.
• Must have experience as a trusted partner with several stakeholder groups such as: Executive Sponsors, Corporate Leadership Team, Line of Business leaders, project stakeholders/Subject matter experts.
• Must have experience in FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis).
• Must have experience in accounting in areas such as: general ledger, AR, AP, fixed assets technical accounting and GAAP.
• Must have experience working in a Shared Service environment.
• Must be able to travel up to 5 - 10% for meetings, engagement, events, business partner relationship collaboration sessions.
• Must be a ble to work extended hours as business needs dictate and have the ability to work late evening/overtime for close processes.
What would be nice for you to have:
• CPA and Big 4 experience.
• revenue recognition (606) experience.
• public accounting experience.
• Software Development Accounting experience.
• Blackline or nVision experience.
• Oracle or PeopleSoft experience.
If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this opportunity. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement on this positing, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet motivated people who align with Jack Henry's mission and can contribute to our company in a variety of ways.
