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Job Summary

As Senior Business Analyst in the Corporate application division, you would be working on some of our latest ventures to Support and Enhance cutting-edge SaaS business applications. You will be helping us with coordination, documentation, test execution, conducting POC, post-production maintenance, and support of the Oracle Cloud SaaS enterprise application production support and continuous improvement of the application landscape.

This position acts as a critical liaison between the company’s financial functions including Corporate Controllership, Regional Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, Tax, and Business Assurance, and the company’s IT organization.  

Responsibilities

• Business Support

• Provides first-line support to users of financial applications.

• Responding to business user queries

• Providing one-on-one support, explanations, and guidance to users regarding finance operations

• Triaging data issues, process issues, and business user errors

• Liaise with IT and business users to define and prioritize business-related issues associated with systems

• Partner with other system owners to ensure data quality, timing, and financial reporting impacts are fully understood

Take the lead role in:

• Assisting with the business case

• Planning and monitoring

• Eliciting requirements

• Requirements organization

• Translating and simplifying requirements

• Requirements management and communication

• Requirement analysis

Business Requirements Analysis

• Partners with business stakeholders to analyze, define and document business requirements, within and across functional areas

• Drives best practices during requirements gathering and modeling

• Has a strong focus on gathering core requirements, beyond stated requirements and correctly placing these within a broader context?

• Understands business environment and helps to connect/align relevant business stakeholders

Stakeholder Management

• Manages stakeholder expectations and communications within and beyond the functional track

• Knows business environment well enough to identify and proactively include the correct stakeholder

• Interacts regularly with senior management-level stakeholders and demonstrates value from realized projects

Solution Design

• Responsible for designing and documenting cross-functional and global solutions, drawing on the functional expertise of functional and technical team members or vendors, as appropriate

• Advises on solutions prepared by peers or supporting team, and champions good design practice

• Partners with business stakeholders to analyze, define, and document business processes within and across functional areas

• Drives best practices during requirements gathering and modeling

• Understands business environment and helps to connect/align relevant business stakeholders

Documentation

• Documents and reviews broader team documentation

• Supports the team in identifying and defining relevant documentation templates pertaining to solution delivery

• Is a champion for knowledge transfer to enable/empower other team members?

Functional Design

• Develop functional designs for applications, integrations, and conversions

• Ability to work on multiple functional areas and integrations with third-party products

• Keeps up to date with industry trends and vendor capabilities to produce robust functional designs

• Reviews functional designs and obtains signoffs with the cross-functional business and IT teams

• Provides inputs into business processes based on design capabilities

• Champions sustainable, forward-looking functional designs

• Learn and adapt to new technologies in a short duration

Testing & Test Design

• Execute System integration testing

• Coordinate user acceptance testing for new systems or enhancement releases.  This involves assistance with the creation of test cases and follow-up to ensure users complete testing per the schedule

• Coordinates integration testing validates test cases with stakeholders for user acceptance testing and training and obtains signoffs

• Coordinates defects clarification, triage, and coordinate resolution with engineering teams.

• Performs Mock close on financial systems

System Configurations

• Configures applications in line with business goals

• Designs forward-looking configurations by recognizing future needs aligned with the business roadmap

• Develop configuration standards

• Day to Day Support (Production Support)

• Supports and trains junior resources and oversees quality in triage and troubleshooting practices

• Leads troubleshooting efforts on critical issues with cross-functional teams through the resolution

• Identifies improvements to address repeat issues

Training and Change Management

• Works with functional leadership teams to set expectations and conduct planning and execution of SME training activities

• Defines, communicates, and implements support and engagement plans

• Analyzes adoption rates and issues assesses business case realization and proposes solutions to improve

• Provides ad hoc training to various financial users on key financial applications
   

Qualifications 

• Worked as Senior Systems Analyst, Senior Consultant, or Support Analyst for Oracle Fusion EPM and ERP application modules

• Hands-on experience in configuring, scripting, and testing for EPM and ERP Cloud application implementation and maintenance

• Years of knowledge in Planning, Budgeting, and forecasting modules

• Worked in most of the Oracle fusion ERP Financial applications primarily in GL,AP and AR Reconcilation

• Worked in most of the Oracle fusion EPM applications primarily on ARCS

• Worked with an onshore delivery leads and support team

• Have in-depth finance functional knowledge to understand business requirements and convert them into technical solutions

• Good analytical and problem-solving ability

• Flexible to work on a rotating shift model to support EMEA and AMER timezone customers

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, IT, or a related field

• 9+ years of experience working within the finance or IT organization of a large multinational company

• Worked in rotating shift model to support EMEA and AMER timezone customers

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities

• Willingness to travel occasionally if needed.

• Preference to computer science, mathematics, Accounting, and related fields of study

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