Financial Systems & AI Enablement Manager

About the role

Financial Systems & Reporting Serve as an advanced finance systems resource for KEEN's core financial planning, reporting, and consolidation systems, including SAP, Adaptive Analytics, and related FP&A data flows. Support system configuration, user provisioning, security access, metadata updates, release testing, and ongoing system enhancements in partnership with Finance, Accounting, and GBT stakeholders. Maintain and update financial system structures, including chart of accounts, organizational hierarchies, cost centers, reporting dimensions, allocation rules, and integration mappings between SAP and the planning platform. Provide functional support to global finance users across regions by troubleshooting data, calculation, reporting, and access issues during close, forecast, budget, and Long Range Plan cycles. Support the SAP S/4HANA implementation and cutover for finance planning and reporting processes by gathering requirements, developing test scenarios, validating data during parallel runs, and assisting with post-go-live stabilization. Document system configuration, data flows, standard operating procedures, and process changes to support consistent system usage and reporting practices. Consolidation & Financial Reporting Lead the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial reporting across KEEN regions, channels, and reporting entities. Execute and review multi-currency consolidation activities, including foreign exchange translation, constant-currency reporting, intercompany eliminations, and reconciliation between local-currency and U.S. dollar reporting views. Prepare consolidated reporting packages for actuals close, forecasts, budget, Long Range Plan, and group reporting using standardized reporting and variance analysis views. Analyze and validate consolidated revenue, gross margin, OPEX, Operating Income, and non-financial KPI reporting to support accuracy, consistency, and timely decision-making. Partner with Accounting, Treasury, regional finance teams, and other stakeholders to resolve reporting issues, improve data quality, and support timely close and planning processes. Apply KEEN's KPI definitions, reporting hierarchies, and consolidation standards consistently across recurring financial reporting deliverables. Identify and recommend process improvements to enhance reporting accuracy, efficiency, and consistency across consolidation and financial reporting activities. AI Enablement Support Finance's AI enablement efforts by identifying, testing, and documenting AI use cases across FP&A, consolidation, and reporting workflows. Maintain FP&A AI reference materials, including the KPI Dictionary, Operating Manual, Company Primer, and Stakeholder Map, ensuring content remains accurate, current, and usable for finance users and AI-enabled workflows. Develop and maintain AI-assisted workflows for recurring finance deliverables, including variance commentary, monthly close narratives, quarterly business review materials, Board reporting, and Fuerst Group reporting. Evaluate and pilot AI tools and solutions that may improve finance processes, reduce manual effort, and support compatibility with future SAP environments. Apply established standards and guardrails for responsible AI use in Finance, including data handling, audit trails, human-in-the-loop review, and accuracy validation. Train and support finance users on AI-enabled processes to improve adoption, consistency, and AI literacy across the Finance function. Partner with the Senior Director, GBT, FP&A, and Finance leadership to support continuous improvement of the planning, reporting, and consolidation calendar, controls, and documentation. Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without cause.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Economics, or a related discipline required.
• Master's Degree in Business Administration or relevant professional certification (CPA, CMA, CFA) preferred.
• Minimum three (3) to five (5) years of combined experience in FP&A, financial systems administration, and/or global consolidated reporting, with demonstrated hands-

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Job Summary The Finance Systems & AI Enablement Manager maintains the technical infrastructure supporting KEEN's global Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) function. This includes supporting financial systems, preparation of global consolidated reporting, and developing AI-driven workflows across the Finance department. The position ensures that the systems, data, and consolidated reports used by the FP&A team and executive leadership are accurate, timely, and progressively automated. This role will serve as an advanced resource for the new AI Center of Excellence. Essential Functions

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