Financial Accounting Consultant

Company Profile  

At Sand Cherry Associates, we excel in the design and delivery of strategic customer-centric initiatives through digitally native, data-empowered solutions.  Our client’s confidence in us is centered on exceptionally skilled, high-energy talent working with the support of the full Sand Cherry team. Finding the right match for this role is a critical aspect of continuing that success.  

Overview 

We're seeking an experienced Financial Operations Consultant to support a large-scale enterprise effort in a fast-paced and collaborative environment. This role will play a critical role in driving financial operations, revenue recognition efforts, account reconciliation activities, vendor management, purchasing support, and invoicing/payment processes. The ideal candidate has a strong background in financial operations management, ERP systems, and enterprise-level invoicing and payment workflows. Successful candidates will possess excellent executive presence, strong communication skills, and the ability to operate effectively across cross-functional business and technology teams. This is a long-term consulting role working in a remote capacity in MST or CST time zone. This role does not support candidates who require visa sponsorship or visa transfer.

Responsibilities

• Invoice Processing and Activities: Match received vendor invoices with purchase orders and receipts (three-way matching) to prevent errors or overpayment. Ensure accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency across financial workflows and reporting processes
• Payment Execution: Run automatic payment programs (APP) to schedule automated ACH, check, or wire transfers to suppliers. Track payment receipts and manage account status. Support payment processes.
• Dispute Resolution: Manage exceptions in SAP Invoicing or correct coding discrepancies in the system.
• Perform account audits, reconciliation activities, and revenue recognition activities.
• Operations: Support vendor management and purchasing operations across internal and external stakeholders. Assist with financial operations tied to procurement, expense management, and payment processing systems.
• Manage the Procure to Pay (P2P) implementation process and steps needed.
• Support operational efforts related to vendor systems, invoicing platforms, purchasing tools, and payment inquiries
• Collaborate cross-functionally with finance, operations, procurement, accounting, and technology teams
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and operational optimization
• Maintain strong documentation, reporting, and organizational practices within enterprise systems

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics is required.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in financial operations, financial management, or accounting-related activities specifically with payment management, processing and managing invoicing and billing
• Strong experience with payment management, revenue recognition, invoicing, account reconciliation, vendor management, and purchasing operations
• Experience working within enterprise SAP for payments and invoicing systems, specifically SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
• Experience with Procure to Pay (P2P) implementation steps and process is required.
• Experience utilizing Coupa for invoicing and expense management processes is preferred.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.
• Excellent organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail skills needed.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced enterprise environment in a collaborative manner.
• Experience within technology, broadband, telecommunications, or other large-scale enterprise industry environments is preferred.

Compensation

Sand Cherry Associates is required by Colorado law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range considers a wide range of factors considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and delivery model. This is a consulting engagement with an expected annual salary of $115,000-130,000 . Years of experience, level of education, geographic location, unique skills/qualifications for the specific role and potential certifications can be key factors in the final compensation for this role.

Our team is unique — we are passionate about what we do. At Sand Cherry, our Consultants know they are impacting and shaping our clients’ industries. We recognize our employees for their contributions. Our culture is one of the most friendly and communicative in the consulting industry. Sand Cherry is not a top-heavy organization. We offer the opportunity to be part of a digital workforce. Discover the experience that only comes with self-responsibility in the workplace. Our team members manage their own workloads and are expected to deliver exceptional work for our clients. Professional career growth is one of our main priorities, as we affirm that investing in our Consultants and empowering our people will also deliver the best results and value for our clients.