Director, Global Financial Systems, General Ledger & Consolidation (Remote)

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Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

Your Impact

As Axon’s Director of Global Financial Systems, General Ledger & Consolidations you will serve as a critical business partner to the Accounting Operations group supporting finance transformation. You will join a highly collaborative team supporting key initiatives including lean monthly close, the global consolidation closing and reporting process, and implementation of best in class reporting to support business partners improve day to day operations.

This role requires creative thinking, problem solving and strong leadership skills while working in a fast-paced, agile and collaborative environment. Leading and promoting, standardized, repeatable and efficient processes leveraging reliable data to problem solve and streamline new and existing processes.

What You'll Do

Location: Remotely from USA
Reports to: Senior Director, Corporate Accounting and Global Consolidations

• A thought leader and change agent to our Accounting Operations and International controllership teams
• Lead finance transformation activities across the Accounting Operations group, including implementation of consolidation tool and ERP enhancements
• Strengthen internal controls throughout the accounting close process by enhancing automation and reporting across multiple financial systems and ERPs
• Minimize the use of spreadsheets, pivoting to Power BI capabilities, including monthly KPI reporting to support the acceleration and quality of the accounting close and other key areas including AP, Inventory and Fixed asset reporting
• Partner with FP&A and Revenue accounting team to leverage forecasting tools, allowing for real-time visibility of all financial statements throughout the accounting close cycle
• Partner with IT to understand accounting impacts for process and functional changes to ERP logic
• Design and review SOX related to financial systems and automation software (e.g., Blackline and BI reporting tools), including configuration changes
• Responsible for chart of accounts related to security controls and cross validation rules
• Co-lead M&A financial systems and ERP implementation and upgrade; develop and manage the creation …