Manager Financial Systems

The Team

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.

Role Summary

The Manager Financial Systems plays a key role in developing strategic priorities and ensuring tactical execution of finance-related technology tools used by Alaska Air Group (AAG). As a people leader, this position leads and establishes priorities that support financial systems including revenue, fuel, treasury, tax, materials, financial reconciliation and reporting, and multiple internal and external interfaces. This role serves as the subject matter expert in financial system best practices and effectively communicates these insights to stakeholders.

Key Duties

Strategy Development:

• Manages the design, development, implementation, maintenance, and support of a portfolio of financial systems, ensuring integration with essential business systems within finance and supply chain (e.g., revenue accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, and financial reporting).
• Develops the finance system strategy and recommends a long-term plan for improving efficiency and customer satisfaction by upgrading, replacing, and enhancing systems, including potential transitions to vendor-managed platforms, while acting as a primary contact for all process reengineering related projects.
• Recommends outsourcing or insourcing systems and gains support and sponsorship from key leaders.

Operations/Administration:

• Leads teams of direct and indirect reports with broad expertise to improve financial system performance management.
• Manages the change request process, production implementations, backlog prioritization, and quality assurance for major finance division systems while collaborating with stakeholders to fulfill reporting requirements.
• Drives accounting consistency through the standardization of data sets.
• Streamlines system reporting and the period-close process, ensuring data integrity between main systems and interfaces.
• Partners with leaders in IT, finance, and supply chain management to ensure alignment of projects with finance system strategy architecture.
• Manages the development of user procedures, guidelines, and documentation ensuring continuous compliance.
• Partners with leaders in accounting to ensure appropriate internal controls exist and are documented for the technology applications and processes.

Stakeholder Relationship Management:

• Develops strong relationships with key internal customers by listening, understanding needs, defining shared objectives, proactive consulting, and collaboration.
• Leads a team to deliver cost-effective training.
• Prepares business case justifications and analyzes the impact of solution(s) while developing and recommending timelines and budgets.
• Maintains transparency by appropriately communicating information (e.g., division and department meetings, one-on-one meetings).
• Ensures communication and processes with business unit customers are consistent throughout the team and aligned with accounting and program objectives.

Culture

• Attracts, motivates, develops, and retains a high-performing team to continually improve financial systems and processes.
• Promotes a high-performance culture by cultivating and motivating direct and indirect reports through coaching, mentoring, and by providing regular and meaningful feedback.
• Identifies and provides career growth opportunities through developmental assignments and both formal and informal training.
• Forges strong relationships and collaborates with a variety of stakeholders, including senior management, business development, systems engineering, and external industry groups, to define and achieve objectives.
• Models and encourages open, honest, and direct communications to reach optimal solutions.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required

• 5 years in a PeopleSoft functional analyst or similar role.
• 2 years of experience building and leading cross-functional teams.
• A Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science degree with a focus in finance, economics, accounting, information technology, business administration, or a related discipline.
• Possess a blend of technical and business acumen (e.g., big picture vision and the drive to make it a reality).
• Experience in project and change management.
• Excellent strategic, organizational, interpersonal, leadership and customer service skills.
• Proven analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills with a track record of leveraging information systems to drive process improvements.
• Ability to produce timely and accurate results while managing multiple, concurrent tasks.
• Works effectively in a collaborative environment with project teams, leadership, and end-users.
• Experience partnering with internal/external auditors on the establishment and review of internal controls for a publicly traded company.
• High energy and a positive presence, along with top-notch written and verbal communication skills.
• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• Minimum age of 18.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred

• Familiarity with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements, Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards, and/or federal and state tax and labor reporting requirements.
• Airline industry experience.

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations

• Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be kind-hearted, deliver performance, and be remarkable.
• Foster a culture of diversity and inclusion where all employees feel a sense of safety, inclusion and belonging.

Salary Range

$113,200 – $169,800 / year

Salary Details

Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Horizon employees. Alaska/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.

Note: We don’t typically hire at the top of the range.

Total Rewards

Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.

• Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines & Horizon Air
• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
• Generous 401k match program
• Quarterly and annual bonus plans
• Generous holiday and paid time off

For more information about Alaska/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.

FLSA Status Exempt
Employment Type Full-Time
Regular/Temporary Regular
Requisition Type Management
Apply by 7:00 PM Pacific Time on 12/2/2024
Location Seattle – Gold Coast Center (GCC)
Equal Employment Opportunity We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action (AA) employer that is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all qualified applicants and employees and do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information (including family medical history), political views or activity, or other legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We may use your information to maintain the safety and security of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, its employees, and others as required or permitted by law. People of color, women, LGBTQIA , immigrants, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
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Job Locations USA-WA-SeaTac
Requisition ID 2024-13442
Category Corporate & Operations

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