Financial Systems Manager

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW:

The Accounting and Finance team plays a pivotal role in ensuring the accuracy, transparency, and integrity of all financial transactions of the club and related entities.  Responsibilities extend to payroll, treasury, tax and compliance, risk management, and MLB reporting requirements.  In addition, the department is dedicated to working with all business and department leaders on financial reporting and controls, setting strategies through budgeting and forecasting, analyzing key operating indicators and trends, and ensuring proper oversight of the club’s financial resources.

 POSITION OVERVIEW: 

The Finance Systems Manager will be the primary owner and administrator of the Finance department's core technology stack, including Oracle NetSuite Ecosystem and Planful, along with adjacent tools such as Salesforce, Esker, and Concur.  This role will support the Boston Red Sox and various other entities within the Fenway Sports Group organization and will partner closely with IT and business leaders to translate process needs into scalable system solutions, while proactively identifying and delivering improvement opportunities across the entire finance technology infrastructure.  The multitude of responsibilities of this role will require a strong commitment to providing outstanding customer service in all areas and lead the training and support for all Finance end users. The ideal candidate pairs strong NetSuite technical expertise and data integration experience with solid accounting and finance fundamentals.

The base salary range for this position is $115,000-$135,000 based on relevant experience. Additionally, this position qualifies for annual incentive pay along with our comprehensive benefits package.  

 System Administration

• Serve as the lead administrator for Oracle NetSuite and associated modules, including configuration updates, custom records, forms, saved searches, scripts workflows, and reporting structures.
• Administer Planful and other planning/reporting tools (e.g., Spotlight) to support budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting cycles.
• Provide functional administration and support for ADP, Esker, Concur, Advanced Business Integrators (AB) time and attendance systems used by Finance.
• Collaborate with IT to manage user provisioning, deprovisioning, and role/permission configuration across all finance systems, ensuring appropriate segregation of duties and audit compliance, and responsible for the reliability and integrity of all running finance systems.
• Design and maintain role structures (including saved search, report, and budget access permissions in NetSuite) aligned to job function and internal controls requirements.
• Own the end-to-end management of system updates, patches, and version upgrades (e.g., NetSuite bi-annual releases, Planful/Spotlight updates), including impact assessment, testing, and stakeholder communication and maintain a testing/sandbox strategy to validate changes before production deployment.
• Train and support all end users on all financial systems.

Data Management and Development

• Manage, build and monitor all data integrations and feeds within the technology stack for Finance with collaboration with IT to proactively and resolve failures, data discrepancies, and latency issues.
• Continue to design and develop process automation and streamline financial and FP&A reporting.
• Assist in the development of a new financial data warehouse to create a single source for all finance and accounting data and assume responsibility for oversight of the environment.
• Establish and maintain internal controls and change management protocols.
• Evaluate new integration and automation opportunities, and scope, build, and test new connections as processes evolve.
• Design, build, and maintain custom scripts and workflows in NetSuite (SuiteScript, SuiteFlow, workflow actions) to automate manual processes and enforce business rules.
• Write and optimize SuiteQL and SQL queries for data extraction, reconciliation, and reporting needs across Finance.

 Optimization and Project Delivery

• Expand system process documentation, standard operating procedures, accounting policies, and workflows with a critical eye for continuous improvement. Conduct access reviews and support internal/external audit requests related to systems access.
• Collaborate with the IT, analytics, and other departments as the lead data governance manager.
• Serve as internal point person on all financial end-user issues and manage relationships with all finance system-related partners.
• Proactively evaluate and identify opportunities to implement system enhancements and integrations to an ever-evolving tech stack that will provide stakeholders with the tools they require in an efficient and secure manner.
• Responsible for requirements gathering, timeline development, testing, and change management.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 5 years of hands-on experience with administrating NetSuite and integrations, with Administrator and SuiteScript certification preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with Oracles NetSuite and Planful or similar ERP/EPM/CPM planning tools.
• Proven track record writing SuiteScript and/or SuiteFlow workflows, and querying data via SuiteQL/SQL.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining integrations using Workato or a comparable ETL/iPaaS platform (e.g., Boomi, Celigo).
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and relational data structures for reporting, reconciliation, and troubleshooting.
• Proficient understanding of accounting and FP&A processes (close, audit, budgeting, forecasting, reporting), internal controls, and data security.
• Effective collaborator able to bridge the gap between Finance and IT, translating concepts for all stakeholders to easily understand and apply.
• Experience administering or integrating ADP, Esker, Concur, Salesforce and SharePoint.
• Experience leading or supporting system upgrade cycles and cross-functional implementation projects.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and translate business requirements into system design with strong discipline in documentation.