Finance Manager Statutory

This role is the driver of the global statutory reporting framework. The Statutory Reporting & Data Excellence Specialist ensures that the underlying statutory data processes and templates are robust cleaned and standardized to support an intelligent automated production environment. This role owns the end-to-end integrity of the process: identifying data quality and integrity gaps resolving process inconsistencies across legal entities standardizing inputs and templates and translating business requirements into specifications that support AI and automation. This is a core delivery role within the Statutory Center of Excellence (CoE) reporting to the CoE Leader. The person in this seat owns the end-to-end health and ongoing evolution of the statutory ecosystem ensuring consistent high-quality data inputs and reliable solutions across all phases of the reporting lifecycle.

Essencial Responsibilities

• Conduct foundation readiness assessments by legal entity / country: data quality chart-of-accounts mapping trial balance structure and source-system gaps.
• Perform hands-on data cleanup and normalization of statutory source data (COA mapping TB tagging master data alignment) ahead of automation waves.
• Document current-state process maps and standard work (feeding Value Stream Mapping) for statutory filing production and Stat-to-GAAP (S2G) reconciliation.
• Identify size and prioritize standardization opportunities using an effort-vs-impact lens based on guidance provided by the CoE Leader.
• Partner with in-scope regional statutory teams to gather requirements validate data readiness and resolve entity-specific complexities.
• Translate readiness findings and standardized templates into clear automation-ready requirements and specification documents for the AI/ML Specialist and Automation Developer roles.
• Track readiness KPIs (entities assessed exceptions resolved templates standardized) and report progress and roadblocks to CoE leadership and the Steering Committee.
• Support pilot and scale waves of the two core AI solutions AI-assisted financial statement production and automated S2G adjustments by ensuring clean standardized inputs are in place ahead of each wave.

Required Qualifications

• Should be part of ELEC Statutory reporting teams
• Bachelors degree in accounting Finance or a related field
• Experience in statutory reporting controllership or finance transformation and in ELELC statutory reporting
• Strong data analysis skills (advanced Excel required; exposure to Power BI or similar a plus).
• Strong experience & knowledge in Electrification statutory processes
• Experience working across multi-country / multi-entity finance operations.
• Demonstrated ability to document processes and standard work (process mapping / VSM experience preferred).
• Comfortable working at the boundary between controllership/statutory teams and the technical/automation team able to translate statutory process knowledge into clear requirements for the AI/RPA specialists to build without having to write the code themselves.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior exposure to GE Vernova (or comparable) statutory processes Oracle FCC or similar consolidation/ERP systems.
• Working knowledge of RPA or AI concepts sufficient to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Prior coding or scripting experience (e.g. Python VBA Power BI/DAX Alteryx UiPath or similar RPA tools) is a plus along with familiarity with AI agent workflows.