Description

SALARY RANGE: $110,000 - 125,000

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Finance Optimization & Systems Analyst will support strategic projects focused on improving financial processes, systems, reporting, and data governance across the organization.

The ideal candidate combines a strong foundation in accounting and financial consolidation with systems aptitude, analytical capability, and project-management discipline. This is a hands-on role for someone who can understand the accounting implications of a process or system change, analyze complex data, and drive projects from problem identification through implementation.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

(This list is not intended to detail all aspects of the assigned work but is representative of the job's overall responsibilities.)

Finance Systems and Reporting

• Support the design, implementation, testing, and ongoing improvement of financial systems, reporting tools, and related integrations.
• Translate accounting and finance requirements into clear functional and technical requirements.
• Evaluate system functionality and recommend improvements that strengthen efficiency, scalability, accuracy, and internal controls.
• Participate in ERP upgrades, system implementations, data conversions, and user acceptance testing.
• Develop and maintain financial reports, dashboards, reconciliations, and analytical tools.
• Troubleshoot financial system and reporting issues in coordination with Finance and IT.
• Help ensure financial systems appropriately support the general ledger, consolidations, intercompany activity, and management reporting.

Process Optimization and Special Projects

• Lead or support cross-functional projects involving financial processes, systems, reporting, and organizational change.
• Document current-state processes, identify gaps and inefficiencies, and design practical future-state solutions.
• Develop project plans, track milestones and dependencies, and communicate progress, risks, and decisions.
• Standardize and automate manual processes where appropriate.
• Develop policies, procedures, process documentation, and training materials that support sustainable adoption.
• Assist Finance leadership with strategic initiatives and other special projects as needed.

Accounting and Consolidation Support

• Apply strong accounting knowledge to evaluate the financial reporting and control implications of proposed changes.
• Support improvements to monthly close, consolidation, intercompany elimination, account reconciliation, and management reporting processes.
• Analyze financial information across business units and legal entities to identify inconsistencies, errors, and improvement opportunities.
• Help ensure system configurations and reporting logic align with accounting policies and reporting requirements.
• Partner with Accounting teams to improve the accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of financial information.

Data Governance and Controls

• Support finance data governance standards, including data ownership, definitions, hierarchies, approval protocols, and change controls.
• Perform data-quality assessments and coordinate resolution of identified issues.
• Maintain documentation of data lineage, reporting logic, key controls, and system dependencies.
• Ensure process and system improvements incorporate appropriate internal controls, auditability, security, and segregation of duties.
• Serve as a liaison among Finance, Accounting, IT, and business stakeholders regarding financial data and reporting requirements.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, general-ledger accounting, financial close, intercompany accounting, and multi-entity consolidations.
• Demonstrated ability to understand financial data flows from source systems through the general ledger, consolidation, and reporting.
• Experience working with ERP, consolidation, financial reporting, or business-intelligence systems.
• Working knowledge of data governance, master data, data quality, and internal-control concepts.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, project-management, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and drive cross-functional work to completion.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical or accounting matters to varied audiences.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with Power BI, SQL, data visualization, or automation tools is preferred.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field is required.
• Five or more years of relevant experience in accounting, financial systems, finance transformation, audit, consulting, or process improvement.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

CITIZENSHIP: Pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires US citizenship.

Vigor Industrial LLC and its wholly owned subsidiaries are drug, smoke and vape-free workplaces. Prospective employees must pass a drug and alcohol test and background check as pre-employment screening.

Vigor Values

Vigor expects all employees to enhance the atmosphere in which they work by living the Vigor Values every day.

Truth: We seek the truth, and we speak the truthResponsibility: We act on what we know is rightEvolution: We seek mastery, and adapt to a changing worldLove: We care about the people we work with, and the world we live in

At Vigor we offer a generous benefits package that includes:

Medical

RX

Dental

Vision

Life

AD&D

LTD

STD

EAP

Discretionary bonus

Tuition Reimbursement

FSA (Medical, Childcare, Transportation)

10 paid holidays

PTO

401(k)