Position Summary:
Penske is seeking an ambitious and inquisitive Financial Systems Administrator to join our Controllership team. Penske is a leader in the transportation industry. We help move lives and businesses forward. The Controllership team is looking for an individual to provide “best in class” support through their expertise and fresh thinking. The Financial Systems Administrator is a techno-functional professional that understands enterprise level financial systems and translates finance business requirements into expected systems behavior. This role is the administrator for our financial systems, primarily OneStream, and collaborates with Finance and IT teams, external consultants, and vendors.
Major Responsibilities:
Perform the administration, security, and maintenance for enterprise level financial systems, primarily OneStream. Ensure accurate data management and reporting of financial information based on established deadlines and compliance with policies and procedures. Responsibilities include loading and consolidating data from multiple sources, maintaining and updating system metadata/ business rules/forms (areas include chart of accounts/mapping tables, dimensions, entity hierarchy, eliminations and other items), performing system upgrades, monitoring system performance, conducting validations and testing, and ensuring proper system security, controls, workflows, transformation rules, data integration and data recovery. Maintain, develop and design reporting through OneStream Excel add-in, cube views, and dashboards. Troubleshoot and resolve financial system issues under tight timeframes. Partner with vendors and IT in conjunction with standard service level agreements (SLAs). Provide critical support for business needs surrounding the monthly close process, planning, and forecasting, quarterly/annual financial statements and audits, acquisitions, and other items. Develop and drive enhancements and improvements for productivity, efficiency, and quality of financial data. Identify and act on opportunities for process automation. Maintain knowledge of trends and developments with financial systems, technology, and best practices. Identify and recommend technology solutions including implementation of future OneStream applications. Maintain strong internal controls and process documentation and ensure compliance requirements are met for system changes. Create/update environment documentation, knowledge base, SOPs and diagrams as the environment evolves and changes. Play a key role in financial systems projects/implementations that expand financial system functionality via collaboration with the Financial Systems team, IT, finance teams across the organization and/or consultants. Assist with systems-related assessments, cost benefit analyses, and defining business requirements and functional specifications. Establish rapport and build cooperative working relationships with relevant internal and external parties, including finance, IT, consultants, and OneStream support teams. Lead communication of system changes, enhancements, upgrades, etc. with leadership and end users. Provide customer support across the entire corporate and field finance organization, including training for end users.
Qualifications:
• Minimum 5 years related experience demonstrating knowledge of finance and information systems
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance required, with strong information technology skills or Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems required, with strong accounting/finance skills
• Advanced financial system administration experience required
• OneStream experience required
• Knowledge of scripting language required (VB.NET) and SQL
• Knowledge of infrastructure and operating systems
• Experience with system upgrades and implementations
• Accounting knowledge, including financial consolidation, financial close processes, journal entries, financial planning & analysis, foreign currency translation, eliminations, and financial statements including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow
• Strong organization, attention to detail and analytical skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong team player and self-driven individual
• Strong time management skills for a fast-paced environment under strict deadlines
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint required
• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job
• Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required.
Physical Requirements:
-The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
-The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.
-While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.
-Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer
About Penske Truck Leasing
Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P., headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania, is a partnership of Penske Corporation, Penske Automotive Group and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. A leading global transportation services provider, Penske operates a premier fleet of vehicles and serves its customers from locations in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Penske’s product lines include full-service truck leasing, contract maintenance, commercial and consumer truck rentals, used truck sales, transportation and warehousing management and supply chain management solutions. Visit www.GoPenske.com to learn more.