General Accounting Manager

Key Responsibilities

1. Discovery and Country Requirements

• Participate in country discovery workshops, process walkthroughs, and design discussions.
• Demonstrate and explain current-state AP processes, controls, approval workflows, exception handling, and operational practices.
• Identify country-specific legal, tax, regulatory, compliance, language, and operational requirements.
• Validate that local requirements are accurately understood and documented.
• Assess operational impacts associated with proposed future-state processes.

2. Process Validation and Future-State Readiness

• Review and validate Process Design Documents (PDDs), business requirements, process flows, controls, exception scenarios, and operating procedures.
• Ensure future-state processes reflect AP operational requirements and business realities.
• Evaluate how future-state processes will be operated, supported, and governed after deployment.
• Identify operational gaps, support needs, ownership requirements, and adoption risks.
• Validate that future-state solutions are scalable, sustainable, and practical for long-term AP operations.

3. Business Validation and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• Develop end-to-end UAT scenarios and business test scripts based on real AP activities, controls, and exception-handling requirements.
• Prepare and maintain business test data.
• Execute UAT and validate solutions against approved business requirements.
• Confirm that business outcomes are achieved, not simply that system functions operate.
• Identify defects, process gaps, usability concerns, operational impacts, and business risks.
• Support defect triage, retesting, and business sign-off activities.

Note: System Integration Testing (SIT) is performed by implementation and development teams. This position focuses on business validation and UAT activities.

4. Deployment Readiness and Go-Live Support

• Support deployment planning, readiness assessments, cutover activities, and country go-live preparations.
• Confirm operational readiness across users, controls, work instructions, exception-handling procedures, and support processes.
• Coordinate readiness activities with country AP teams.
• Validate user preparedness and operational readiness before deployment.
• Support business go-live activities and the transition into production operations.

5. Hypercare and Stabilization

• Act as an AP user during go-live and hypercare activities.
• Support issue identification, investigation, prioritization, escalation, and resolution.
• Monitor user adoption, operational effectiveness, exception trends, and process performance.
• Support the transition from project deployment to steady-state AP operations.
• Validate that AP teams are prepared to own and sustain future-state processes.

6. AP Operations and Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve process effectiveness, user experience, controls, and operational efficiency.
• Capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement for future deployment waves.
• Promote standardized global processes across countries.
• Support AP adoption of intelligent automation and future AI-enabled capabilities.
• Provide operational feedback to guide solution enhancements and future country rollouts.