Finance Systems Manager

Company Overview

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

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Position Summary

This role will lead finance systems, reporting, and data solutions supporting Bridgestone Retail Operations Finance and Field Operations, including reporting-platform modernization, production support, data governance, and cross-functional system changes. The role serves as a bridge across Finance, Operations, Accounting, and technology teams to balance business usability, financial integrity, system reliability, and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization of finance reporting, including migration to Power BI solutions and consolidation toward a primary reporting platform; govern reporting changes, decommissioning, communications, and adoption.
• Establish reporting and data-access practices, including evaluation of external data-sharing requests, security, governance, and stewardship.
• Coordinate production support across finance systems, reporting, interfaces, and data integrity; determine whether issues originate in reporting or upstream systems/data and drive resolution with the appropriate technical owner.
• Support JDA-to-Lawson financial posting and reconciliation, coordinating across Finance, Accounting, IT support, and job-scheduling teams when issues occur.
• Lead or coordinate cross-functional finance-system initiatives and production changes; assess implementation risk, dependencies, accounting integrity, controls, and rollback considerations.
• Partner with IT and business teams to improve system stability, resolve data/support issues, address root causes, support audit and compliance activities, and translate technical changes into business impacts and recommendations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Finance, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience with financial systems and reporting, data governance, reporting controls, and data-access practices.
• 2-3 years of leading a team with direct reports.
• Experience translating business requirements and performing root-cause analysis.
• Experience managing production issues and analyzing cross-system dependencies.
• Experience leading system or process changes, assessing risk, and translating technical issues into business terms for finance and operational stakeholders.

At Bridgestone, you are Free to Be

We believe people can only provide superior service and quality to others when they feel safe bringing their chosen version of themselves to work. We believe in championing all perspectives, individuals and teams because we understand the importance of seeing the world and our business through many different lenses. So, show us what you are made of, because who you are is what we need.

What we offer

At Bridgestone, what really matters is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”, for that, we offer you more than just a competitive compensation; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
• An effective and inclusive team.

Bridgestone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to consider all individuals for employment based on their unique merit and without regard to age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Employment Eligibility

If hired, a Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification must be completed at the start of employment. Temporary work authorization or the need for sponsorship may disqualify you from employment.