Manager, Accounting

Overview of Position

Assurant is embarking on a multi-year, multi-phase financial systems and process transformation program. This role will be critical for application design, process transformation, and making recommendations to enhance current state activities related to the Receivables Management, Billing, Collections, and Cash Management components of the implementation of an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution as part of a broader financial systems and process strategy. Specifically, this manager will be the key Finance and Accounting resource leading the Receivables Management, Billing, and Collections components of Assurant’s implementation of a Oracle cloud ERP and OFSAA solution as part of a multi-phased transformation program.

The individual in this role will use their deep accounting skills, knowledge and prior experiences to lead the design and implementation of key accounting, billing, receivables management, and collections functions/processes in a new ERP platform. This individual will also identify, make recommendations to senior finance stakeholders, and lead efforts to migrate current billing and collections processes to the leading practices facilitated by having a modern ERP system. 

Initially, the individual in this role will be responsible for providing functional and financial process leadership to the design and implementation of the new platform and best practice processes. In the future, the role will then assume responsibility for the ongoing management, support, and enhancement of the billing, collections and related functions, with a focus on continuously identifying, recommending, and executing on opportunities to better streamline and gain efficiencies in the Finance function through leveraging the investment we have made in a new systems platform. 

As new functionality and capabilities are added to the financial systems platform, this role will have responsibility for ensuring smooth integration onto the platform and will proactively identify and mitigate any potential risks.

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?

Strategic:

• Lead efforts within Finance and Accounting to design and implement best practice billing and collections processes in a leading cloud ERP solution

• Identify, recommend, champion, and execute on opportunities to enhance existing collections and billings processes taking into consideration the requirements of the overall Global Finance organization

• Leverage prior Accounting and Finance experiences and expertise to identify, propose, and implement automated solutions and reduce reliance on manual processes, with a focus on prioritizing the remediation of those processes that currently have the most risk and/or inefficiency

• Actively engage and educate business process owners on solution optimization, simplification and standardization capabilities within the …