Sr. Business Systems Analyst - Accounting/ Finance

Req ID: 94201

BASIC PURPOSE: Responsibility for projects, support and optimization of financial systems and processes throughout SDLC lifecycle, including Analysis, Design, Testing, Implementation, Execution and Innovation. 

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive implementation and improvement projects for business areas supported
• Understand integration points between financial systems and SAP-ECC, external vendor and other business systems
• Quickly understand business needs and translate that understanding into a form that leads to the creation and/or composition of better solutions
• Elicit, communicate and manage internal and external customer requirements
• Work with business leads to prioritize work list
• Clearly communicate project and break-fix status to business leads, manager, and other stakeholders
• Analyze and document as-is and to-be processes and systems
• Discover process gaps
• Derive improvement potential for business areas supported
• Provide input to establishing process performance measurements related to business systems and processes supported, including measurements for new solutions to determine successful implementation and drive optimization
• Contribute to and support best practice process management approach for Business and IT
• Provide expertise in change management, process management and project management
• Contribute to the development of process standards and evaluation of tools as needed
• Perform feasibility studies/solution reviews
• Understand and ensure that quality standards are met
• Working knowledge of business areas supported to serve as an advisor in business systems and process oriented solutions
• Coordinating work of others to ensure solution delivery
• Creation and execution of test plans and scripts in support of solution delivery
• Other duties assigned as needed

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Education:
  • Bachelor’s Degree required
• Experience:
  • 7+ years directly related experience in an analyst capacity, designing and implementing IT solutions on various platforms
  • 3+ years managing projects
  • Knowledge of accounting/finance practices 
• Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship

SKILLS AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Skills:
  • Knowledge of  various IT solutions, patterns and architecture
  • Knowledge of Accounting and Finance solutions, with experience in or integrating to SAP ECC 6.0 preferred
  • Knowledge of business intelligence, data warehousing, application design and integration, SOA, Microsoft.Net,  web services and workflow/process automation
  • Strong Problem assessment/analytical skills/critical thinking
  • Capable of thinking of the big picture while sorting through details
  • Ability to be flexible in an ambiguous environment
  • Ability to work within resource and time constraints
  • Ability to manage 200+ emails per day
  • Ability to manage numerous competing demands in an extremely high stress environment
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Suite of tools, including: Office, Visio, Excel, Project
• Typical Physical Demands:
  • Requires prolonged sitting, some bending and stooping
  • Occasional lifting up to 25 pounds
• Manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and calculator
• Requires normal range of hearing and vision

Job Function(s): Information Technology
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