Kuiper Accounting PMO team has an immediate opening for a Finance Transformation Analyst. This role supports and directly influences the launch of Kuiper product and programs across multiple verticals: satellite manufacturing, ground gateway terminals and customer terminals.

The Finance Transformation Analyst will work closely with partner financial systems teams, accounting operations teams, tax, finance operations, and others on new initiatives to provide integrated accounting requirements to the Kuiper business teams. Successful candidates will have experience in operational accounting, project management and solid acumen related to financial processes and systems. Candidate experience should cover documentation of financial processes and controls, and accounting requirements documentation. Experience contributing to project delivery as an accounting subject matter expert is expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position.

This position is expected to have a deep sense of ownership, strong passion in solving problems and delivering results, ability to identify process improvement opportunities, drive positive change across the organization, and enhance partnerships between Accounting and various business and IT groups.

Key job responsibilities
- Review Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) for accounting impact and coordinate with accounting stakeholders on relevant accounting requirements
- Draft Accounting Requirements Documents (ARDs) and related Journal Entry Mappings (JEMs) that meet customer needs
- Update project plans for accounting workstreams, identifying risks, actions, issues and decisions/ dependencies
- Contribute to accounting test planning and user acceptance testing
- Draft ad hoc issues based documents for leadership review

A day in the life
- Plan and prioritize daily and near term activities
- Join weekly team scrum to discuss past/current activities and potential blockers
- 1:1 with manager to deep dive project RAID items
- 1:1 with key business stakeholder to drive completion of workstream activities
- Meet with business stakeholders to review process components and detailed accounting use-cases while gathering feedback to drive clarity for requirements
- Work on Journal Entry Mappings file ahead of accounting stakeholder review next week
- Prep for the Friday weekly leadership status meeting
- Respond to emails, wrap up day and set upcoming priorities

About the team
In this role, the candidate will be part of a team that collaborates with business finance and technical teams to deliver world class solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible. This person will have operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment. Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope business requirements and prioritize.