Manager, Financial Systems

As a member of the ShipBob Team, you will benefit from an environment where everything is achievable. We aim to be a place where you can:

• Write Your Career Story.  Because we are solving some of the most difficult problems in global commerce, you have the opportunity to write the story that will make your career.
• Experience Global Impact and Global Connection.  At ShipBob we benefit from diverse cultures and perspectives in service of the global community.
• Grow With An Ownership Mindset. We believe that great innovation comes from great transparency.  We are more resilient and more creative when we have an inclusive and transparent culture where everyone knows our strengths and opportunities.

Title: Manager, Financial Systems 

Location : Remote in these states: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, KS, KY, ID, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI

Role Description:

The Manager, Financial Systems role will run project management, delivery, and ownership of functional capabilities for the IT suite used by ShipBob’s Finance team, including NetSuite, Hyperion Planning, FloQast, MSFT PowerBI and Zip. This role will work collaboratively with  our Finance, IT and Technology teams to steer various work streams including requirements, design, UAT, training, documentation and change management as well as be responsible for technical and application support. This role will enhance business processes and system optimization through technology and automation.

What you’ll do:

• Be a subject matter expert on Financial Systems, applying your extensive NetSuite and Hyperion Planning experience to facilitate stable, scalable, and agile platforms.
• Manage day-to-day Financial Systems operations, end user support, technical and application support across various Finance applications.
• Apply Accounting, Finance, and Operational experience to optimize systems efficiency and accuracy.
• Update and create webforms, business rules, Smart View reports, and drive standard reporting & processes.
• Manage integration and data issues across the various applications.
• Understand workflows between systems and financial processes.
• Recommend solutions to improve and streamline system functions, while ensuring solid control and SOD environment.
• Maintain end user training documentation, job aids, data flows, system diagrams and requirements for infrastructures and interfaces.
• Build close partnerships with Finance, IT and Technology teams.
• Push towards smooth month-end close processes and budget/forecast cycles.
• Ensure data governance processes are created, followed, updated and reviewed on a regular basis.
• Create a reporting center of excellence for the company’s financials.
• Develop an excellent control environment leading to accurate financial reporting.
• Additional duties and responsibilities as necessary.

What you’ll bring to the table:

• 5-8 years experience in financial systems (Netsuite, Hyperion, Smart View, data warehouses/lakes, and BI reporting).
• Experience analyzing requirements, writing technical and functional specification and testing processes.
• Bachelor's Degree.
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and accurately follow through on work activities while meeting deadlines.
• Clear communicator with the ability to interact with senior leaders, team members, and vendors.

Classification: Exempt

Reports to:  Controller, Director

Perks & Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Basic Life Insurance
• Paid Maternity/Parental Leave Program
• Flexible Time Off Program
• Paid Sick Leave and Paid Emergency Leave
• Floating Holidays (2 days/year)
• Wellness Days (1 day/quarter)
• 401K Match 
• Competitive Salary, Performance Bonus & Equity
• Variety of voluntary benefits, such as, short term disability
• Referral Bonus Program
• Fun Culture >>>Check us out on Instagram (@lifeatshipbob)

  ShipBob believes in transparency while providing a competitive total compensation package with a pay for performance approach. The expected base pay range for this position is $115,000 - $140,000** .**  

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence; therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.

About You:

At ShipBob, we’re looking to bring on board people who embody our core values:

• Be Mission-Driven.   We want team members that are passionate about helping entrepreneurs improve their business, and bring that passion every day.
• Be Humble. We have ambitious goals, and our team members understand that success or failure depends on us working together and leaving egos at the door.
• Be Resilient. Logistics is a complicated business. So is software. We value team members that never give up and keep iterating until a problem is solved.
• Be a Creative Problem Solver. As a startup, we value smart, innovative solutions to complex problems. We fall in love with the problem, not our “favorite” solution.
• Be Safety Minded. It’s not just talk; it’s the way you work.

About Us: 

ShipBob is a cloud-based logistics platform that partners with over 7,000+ e-commerce businesses to help make their entrepreneurial dreams a reality. We offer a full suite of fulfillment solutions for our merchants, including the ability to improve their transit times, shipping costs and deliver best in class experience to their customers. With an almost 100% accuracy rate in fulfilling orders and orders shipped on time, our merchants can count on us to deliver excellent service. 

As one of the fastest growing tech companies in Chicago with over $300M+ raised from blue-chip investors like Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, our goal is to continue to be the #1 best fulfillment technology in the industry. 

ShipBob provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.