Accounting & Finance Data, Reporting, and Automation Engineer - State, Local, and Higher Education

Position summary

Our Deloitte Finance Transformation team practices to help chief financial officers, controllers, and finance teams define and execute their finance and global business services agendas and strategies.

You will work with leading-class teams and solutions, helping clients navigate challenging environments, market uncertainty, technology development, and regulatory considerations to unlock value.

Your work may span strategy, operations, process design, and technology as we partner with clients to transform finance.

Work You'll Do

As a Senior Consultant for General Business Finance Data Analytics & Insights team, you will be responsible for the design, build, and maintain automations that streamline accounting and finance processes for state, local, and higher education clients.

You will work closely with client finance teams and our consultants to turn manual, error-prone work into reliable, auditable, and scalable workflows.

You will also build the data pipelines, reporting tools, and control checks that help clients close faster, reconcile with confidence, and stay ready for audit.


* Design and build automations for recurring finance and accounting processes, such as bank reconciliations, accounts payable and receivable matching, journal entry preparation, accrual calculations, and month-end and year-end close checklists.


* Develop process automation and workflow solutions using tools such as Power Automate, UiPath, or similar platforms, with appropriate exception handling and human review points.


* Build and maintain data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) pipelines that pull data from ERP and other information systems, including Workday, Oracle, PeopleSoft, into reporting environments.


* Write SQL queries and scripts to validate data, identify anomalies, and support general ledger analysis, reconciliations, and chart of accounts clean-up.


* Design and maintain dashboards and recurring financial reports for controllers, treasurers, budget offices, and boards, including fund-level, grant-level, and capital asset reporting.


* Build automated control testing and monitoring routines aligned to the COSO framework, producing evidence that supports internal audit, external financial statement audits, state audits, and Single Audits under Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200).


* Document automations thoroughly, including process maps, logic, data lineage, access controls, and runbooks, so that clients can maintain and audit them independently.


* Establish version control, testing, and change management practices for automations, and ensure they comply with client IT security and data governance policies.


* Train client staff on how to operate, monitor, and modify automations, and transition ownership to permanent teams at the end of an engagement.


* Evaluate client processes to identify automation opportunities, estimate return on investment, and recommend a prioritized roadmap.
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