Director Accounting Strategy & Systems

Who we are
At SharkNinja, our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world. We design and deliver high quality, innovative products that make life easier for consumers. We move fast, think big, and expect our leaders to build scalable solutions that support continued growth. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are core to our success. We value every voice and believe the best ideas come from teams that bring their authentic selves to work.

The opportunity
The Director of Accounting Strategy, Policy, and Systems is a critical leadership role responsible for optimizing how Finance operates through technology, data, and process design. This role partners closely with the Global and Regional Controllers, IT, and cross functional business teams to ensure accounting systems are scalable, well controlled, and designed to support efficient, high quality reporting.

The successful candidate will act as a systems and process architect for Accounting, connecting Oracle, Salesforce, HighRadius, Power BI, and related tools into streamlined, end to end workflows that reflect the underlying economics of the business and reduce manual effort.

This role reports to the Global Controller and serves as a senior leader within the Global Accounting organization.

What you will do

Accounting systems, process optimization and prioritization:
• Evaluate current accounting systems, integrations, and workflows to identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and standardize
• Own the accounting systems roadmap in partnership with IT and Finance leadership
• Ensure Oracle, Salesforce, HighRadius, Power BI, and related tools are configured to support efficient close, accurate reporting, and strong internal controls
• Design future state workflows that reduce manual entries, reconciliations, and rework
• Partner with IT to translate accounting requirements into system solutions and configuration decisions

ERP and system initiatives
• Provide accounting leadership for Oracle and related system initiatives across global teams
• Guide configuration, data conversion, testing, and cutover activities consistent with accounting requirements and global standards
• Ensure global accounting policies and system design are aligned and consistently applied
• Lead UAT planning, execution, and sign off for accounting related changes to all systems
• Act as the primary accounting escalation point for system issues, risks, and design decisions

Policy, controls, and governance
• Ensure systems and processes support SOX compliance and audit requirements
• Partner with Internal Audit and External Audit to address system related findings and improvements
• Balance control rigor with operational efficiency

Change leadership and enablement
• Serve as a accounting change champion for system and process transformation
• Develop and maintain SOPs, training materials, and job aids
• Deliver end user training and support post implementation
• Coach and develop accounting team members to build long term system ownership and expertise

Leadership and collaboration
• Work cross functionally with FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Order to Cash, Source to Pay, and Operations
• Influence without authority in a fast paced, matrixed environment

What we are looking for
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• CPA preferred
• 8 to 10 years of progressive accounting experience in public accounting and or public company environments
• Deep knowledge of US GAAP and accounting operations
• Hands on experience with major ERP systems, preferably Oracle Fusion
• Strong understanding of upstream and downstream systems such as Salesforce, HighRadius, and reporting tools like Power BI
• Proven ability to design efficient, scalable accounting processes supported by technology
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills
• Comfortable operating at both a detailed execution level and a strategic design level
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast moving environment

Super user and change champion responsibilities
• Advise on cross functional and cross departmental accounting processes
• Actively participate in CRP, SIT, UAT, and Training workshops
• Collaborate with system integrators to define business requirements and SOPs
• Partner with Change Management to define testing scenarios and use cases
• Execute finance change management strategies
• Review process impact assessments and support stakeholder adoption
• Deliver end user training and maintain SOP documentation