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
Description
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.
Qualifications
- 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-on system ownership.
- Any direct experience administering an enterprise planning platform (e.g., Workday Adaptive Planning / Adaptive Analytics, Anaplan, Oracle EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud) and an ERP (SAP required).
- Three (3) years experience with global multi-currency consolidation, FX translation, and intercompany eliminations.
- Demonstrated experience deploying AI, automation, or RPA tooling in a finance context required.
Any equivalent combination of experience and education which clearly indicates the ability to perform the essential functions of the position may substitute on a year for year basis.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong hands-on experience supporting ERP and planning systems, including metadata configuration, calculations, integrations, security, and troubleshooting.
- Advanced working knowledge of global financial consolidation, including FX translation, intercompany eliminations, constant-currency reporting, and multi-entity reporting hierarchies.
- Working knowledge of FP&A processes, including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, variance analysis, and management reporting.
- Ability to translate finance process requirements into effective system configurations, reporting structures, and data flows.
- Practical experience using AI tools in a business context, including LLM-based assistants, workflow automation, and emerging AI-enabled productivity tools.
- Ability to develop, prompt, test, and evaluate AI-enabled workflows for finance use cases, applying established standards and review practices.
- Strong data discipline, including data integrity review, cross-system reconciliation, data lineage documentation, and audit-ready recordkeeping.
- Ability to analyze and explain financial, system, and data concepts clearly to finance and non- finance audiences.
- Strong attention to detail, organization, and time management across overlapping close, forecast, planning, and project cycles.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with cross- functional partners and management.
- Proficiency with SAP and Adaptive Analytics required; experience with Snowflake, Power BI, or similar BI/data platforms preferred.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills; proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including PowerPoint.
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing systems, processes, and business needs, including ERP migration activity.
Travel Required: Yes, up to 10% of the time
Base Salary: $119,000 - $125,600
This range represents the low and high ends of this position's anticipated base salary range. The actual base salary will depend on numerous factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and location. Our base salary is just one component of our competitive total rewards strategy, which includes numerous benefits and perks as well as specific health and welfare benefits.
Why Work at KEEN: Driven by a passion for life outside, KEEN is a values-led, independently owned brand from Portland, Oregon, that’s on a mission to create original and versatile products, improve lives, and inspire outside adventure. Founded in 2003, KEEN launched a revolution in the footwear industry with the introduction of the Newport adventure sandal and has donated more than $18 million to non-profit organizations and causes around the world to promote responsible outdoor recreation, including conservation efforts to protect open spaces. KEEN strives to show the world through its products and its actions that a business for good can actually be good for business. By giving back, reducing impact, and activating communities and individuals to protect the places where we work and play, KEEN puts its values in motion and takes action to leave the world a better place.
Fuerst Group, KEEN, and Chrome are equal opportunity employers. We value an inclusive and diverse community. Qualified candidates of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.