Hybrid Director, Financial Systems – SOX Compliance

at Puget Sound Energy

• Job title: Director, Financial Systems – SOX Compliance
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $168,000 - $359,400 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bellevue, United States

About the role

• Director Financial Systems responsible for compliance and strategic leadership in financial technologies for Puget Sound Energy. Leading system transformations and financial oversight at a major energy utility.

Responsibilities

• Provides employees with coaching, feedback, and developmental opportunities and builds effective teams.
• Leads the development and execution of the five-year financial technology roadmap to ensure system solutions support the company’s strategic plan.
• Proactively partners with technology providers to understand and deliver new system functionality and solutions, including adoption of robot process automation, analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning technologies.
• Oversees financial system implementation projects by supporting design of business cases; manages and facilitates fit gap analysis and system design sessions.
• Partners with business and IT to design and document efficient and effective IT and business process controls across the entire financial reporting landscape.
• Ensures complete and accurate execution of IT controls completed as part of system implementations or upgrades.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Business, Finance, Accounting, Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and/or work experience.
• Eight (8) years of finance, accounting or IT system experience, including five (5) years of software administration, implementation, support, and/or management of business information systems, project management or related experience.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing innovative new business processes, change management, leading major projects and/or system integration.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, setting and managing goals, and a proven record leading cross-functional and technical teams.
• Demonstrated experience either auditing or implementing/executing IT SOX controls.
• Ability to create a culture of accountability and effective employee engagement.
• Strong oral and written communications skills including the ability to deal effectively with conflict.
• Ability to explain complex things in a clear, simple and accurate manner.

Benefits

• Employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Additional voluntary options of supplemental life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent daycare, and an Employee assistance program (EAP).
• For long term savings, PSE offers a 401(k) investment option and a cash balance retirement plan.
• Employees will also receive Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays throughout the calendar year.