Principal, Shared Service Finance & Transormations

About This Team:

The Shared Services Finance & Transformation team serves as the enterprise governance and commercial engine across Cloud Software Group. The team centralizes shared cost management, establishes transparent cost-recovery mechanisms across global business units, and provides General Managers with actionable P&L visibility while upholding core controllership integrity.

Shared Services Finance & Transformation

• Baseline Cost & Operational Modeling: Build, maintain, and refine the end-to-end Shared Services baseline cost model across global entity structures and business units.
• Service Allocation & Driver Mapping: Define volume drivers, cost pools, and standardized allocation logic to support transparent cost-recovery mechanisms.
• Metrics Consolidation & Dashboards: Centralize operational KPIs, transaction volumes, unit cost drivers, and productivity metrics into executive dashboards.
• Benchmarking & Advisory Liaison: Partner with external professional services firms to evaluate industry benchmarks, refine dynamic chargeback engines, and execute on model calculations.
• Cross functional stakeholder management: Drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders (IT, Business Ops, Security, Engineering, FP&A, Legal, HR) to define shared service operational boundaries, standardize SLA metrics, and facilitate consensus on cost-allocation methodologies
• F&A-Wide Transformation & Optimization: Partner with leadership across all F&A pillars (GL Ops, Revenue/ARR, Technical Accounting, Statutory Compliance) to evaluate operational workflows, reduce process friction, enforce control rigor, and drive continuous improvement leveraging automation and AI tools.

Consolidations & Management Reporting

• Reporting Output Accuracy & Validation: Review and validate consolidated financial statement outputs generated from Oracle FCCS to ensure absolute reporting integrity prior to executive distribution.
• Actuals-to-Planning Bridging: Construct and maintain detailed bridge reconciliations connecting GAAP actuals out of Consolidations with FP&A forecast models and EPBCS Planning numbers.
• Cross-Functional Close Coordination: Serve as the financial reporting liaison between Consolidations, FP&A, and IR during peak close windows to ensure consistency across internal management decks and external reporting.

Qualification & Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA, CFA, or MBA preferred.
• Experience: 8+ years of progressive experience in financial reporting, FP&A, accounting, or finance transformation within a complex, global technology enterprise.
• Management Reporting & Variance Analysis: Deep expertise in consolidating multi-entity results, analyzing actual vs. plan variances, and building bridge schedules for executive and IR consumption.
• Leadership Communication: Proven ability to partner with IR, Treasury, and FP&A leadership to synthesize technical accounting outputs into clear business narratives.
• Financial Modeling & Analytics: Demonstrated experience building complex multi-variable cost models, activity-based allocation drivers, or chargeback frameworks.
• Systems Familiarity: Strong working knowledge of Oracle Fusion GL, Oracle EPM is a plus.
• Strategic Problem Solving: Self-motivated leader who can balance structured transformation deliverables with fast-turnaround reporting requests during quarterly close cycles.

Compensation may vary depending on your location, qualifications including job-related education, training, experience, licensure, and certification, that could result at a level outside of these ranges. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus, and sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role as well as individual performance. CA generally ranges: $159,046-$238,570 All other locations fall under our General State range: $139,514-$209,272 Benefits may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Cloud Software Group and the country where you work. U.S. based employees are typically offered access to healthcare, life insurance and disability benefits, 401(k) plan and company match, among others. This requisition has no specific deadline for completion.

About Us:

Cloud Software Group is one of the world’s largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done - from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value passion for technology and the courage to take risks. Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.

Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status), marital status, military service, protected veteran status, political activity or affiliation, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.

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