Director, Financial Data and Systems

About Insight Global

Insight Global is a $4B+ revenue, private equity backed staffing agency based out of Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 2001, Insight Global has continued to grow at a rapid pace year over year for the past 20 years. Insight Global is the 3rd largest IT Staffing company in the United States and has continued to expand into other staffing verticals such as finance, accounting, engineering and healthcare.

Insight Global: Overarching Vision, Goals & Capabilities

Insight Global is a private company that has a vision to become a revolutionary brand that leads the staffing industry. We see a future in which clients seek us out, choosing to work with us over others because the company’s purpose and values align with their own. Insight Global sees a future in which candidates (contractors) feel connected and proud to be part of the IG family, and a job working inside the firm is among the most coveted for highly outgoing, inspired, ambitious college grads. It all begins now!

Insight Global has rebranded and produced a bold, compelling new narrative that’s designed to reset the expectation around what a staffing company can and should be. This is deliberately designed to not only change the external narrative but to also drive increased internal pride and adoption of shared values and Leadership behaviors. Highlights and anchors of the launch include:

About the job

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced individual to join our team as the Director of Financial Data and Systems. This role has been expanded to deliver full end-to-end leadership for IG’s financial systems and associated data to enable finance and accounting organizations to produce timely and accurate financial statements and enhance the partnership with stakeholders to deliver insights and support decision-making. The financial system infrastructure under management will include ERP, consolidation and reporting tools and budgeting and planning applications along with governance over financial data and key operational KPI’s used in planning and analytics. This position will collaborate with Accounting, FP&A, Internal Audit, Finance, Technology, Revenue Operations and Strategic Sourcing and operate with a sense of urgency proactively seeking to understand challenges of key stakeholders and propose solutions to drive friction out of current processes. This role is a highly strategic position for IG and will play a key role to assess current financial data and system gaps, develop near-term capability enhancements within existing ecosystem and devise the financial systems roadmap to bring to life a modernized and efficient financial system landscape. This leader will lead and drive our Financial Data Warehouse strategy to ensure robust financial reporting cycle requirements are met. IG’s finance organization is in growth mode, thus the ideal candidate will enjoy building and establishing new processes and routines, have demonstrated experience collaborating in a matrix environment, possess strong partnering and influencing skills and operate with a continuous improvement mindset.

From a technical perspective a successful candidate will have previously ran a large enterprise financial systems organization for a global company, developed and/or meaningfully contributed to financial systems roadmap, drove ERP and EPM implementations, including full re-build of the financial data model, developed financial systems governance process from ground-up, be well versed in proper change management protocols from lower environments to production, managed end-user security and access provisioning and work with a strong understanding of FP&A functional requirements to drive re-forecasting, scenario planning and variance analysis. This role will manage a team and report to the VP of Global FP&A.

In This Role, You Will

Serve as leader of financial data and systems organization to drive, in partnership with IT Corporate Product Director and Data Insight and Analytics team, strategy and future vision to modernize architecture to scale with business growth and establish a Financial Data Warehouse

Oversee and direct administration of IG’s financial data and technology operations, processes and related procedures, including solutions necessary to support new accounting pronouncements, finance initiatives, business lines changes and International expansion

Collaborate with IT Corporate Product Director, Data Insights and Analytics team and FLT to enhance existing system functionality, process automation and data hygiene in core financial systems

Drive projects to support efficient flow of data, explore expanding details in GL string in ERP and eliminate manual processing via integrations and/or other means

Ensure robust governance and change management of the finance environment, including documentation, socialization, presentation and approval through key stakeholder groups to enable structured and informed decision-making and accurate and timely delivery of financial statements

Lead system implementations for finance organization ensuring project plans are outlined, timelines and cost are reasonable and well understood, third-party vendors are properly selected with vetting from all impacted stakeholders, source system integrations are property concerned and managed and organization is brought along through strong communication

Provide escalation path for issues giving rise to audit or control risk related to financial systems

Manage and leverage vendor and third-party relationships in support of financial system

Collaborate cross-functionally with IT and other parts of the organization to support integrations that share and move financial data and is the data steward for financially relevant data

Provide hands-on leadership and development to financial system’s team creating a positive environment for team member growth and fostering collaboration across both finance and the wider enterprise

Contribute new ideas to drive continuous improvement to business processes through systems and tools

The Skills You’ll Bring Include

15+ years of progressive experience leading and administering ERP and EPM systems for a large global company; dealing with multi-entity and multi-currency consolidation

Proven track record of success in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities

Excellent consulting, problem solving and analytical skills with demonstrated experience joining business needs with system capabilities

Outstanding judgement and mature business skills with the ability to establish a strong rapport with senior management

High level of organization and project management skills with past performance driving timelines for deliverables

Experience implementing and supporting a variety of financial system applications and upstream integrations including human capital management applications, workforce planning and reporting, Billing/Accounts Receivable, T&E, Accounts Payable, Consolidations, Account Reconciliations, Scenario Planning, Time Keeping and Treasury management

Strong data flow and integrations experience to support new third-party integrations and acquisitions to ensure complete, accurate and timely financial data analysis and reporting

Experience documenting and conveying complex topics in an articulate, coherent and digestible form for diverse business stakeholders including at the executive level, non-financial data stewards, accountants, IT and end users of the financial systems

Understanding of GAAP, Statuary Reporting, economics, and operational management methodologies

Comfortable leading and coaching teams, with a hands-on approach to problem-solving

Self-motivated and able to take ownership and responsibility for end-to-end process and knows how to work independently, but when to consult with other

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or information systems

MBA or graduate degree preferred but not required

Prior consulting experience a plus