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 companys financial functions including Corporate Controllership, Regional Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, Tax, and Business Assurance, and the companys IT organization.
Responsibilities
Business Support
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Provides first-line support to users of financial applications.
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Responding to business user queries
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Providing one-on-one support, explanations, and guidance to users regarding finance operations
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Triaging data issues, process issues, and business user errors.
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Liaise with IT and business users to define and prioritize business-related issues associated with systems.
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Partner with other system owners to ensure data quality, timing, and financial reporting impacts are fully understood.
Take the lead role in:
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Assisting with the business case
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Planning and monitoring
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Eliciting requirements
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Requirements organization
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Translating and simplifying requirements
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Requirements management and communication
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Requirement analysis
Business Requirements Analysis
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Partners with business stakeholders to analyze, define and document business requirements, within and across functional areas.
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Drives best practices during requirements gathering and modeling.
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Has a strong focus on gathering core requirements, beyond stated requirements and correctly placing these within a broader context?
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Understands business environment and helps to connect/align relevant business stakeholders
Stakeholder Management
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Manages stakeholder expectations and communications within and beyond the functional track
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Knows business environment well enough to identify and proactively include the correct stakeholder
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Interacts regularly with senior management-level stakeholders and demonstrates value from realized projects
Solution Design
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Responsible to design and document cross-functional and global solutions, drawing on the functional expertise of functional and technical team members or vendors, as appropriate
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Advises on solutions prepared by peers or supporting team, and champions good design practice
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Partners with business stakeholders to analyze, define and document business processes within and across functional areas
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Drives best practices during requirements gathering and modeling
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Understands business environment and helps to connect/align relevant business stakeholders
Documentation
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Documents and reviews broader team documentation
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Supports the team in identifying and defining relevant documentation templates pertaining to solution delivery
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Is a champion for knowledge transfer to enable/empower other team members?
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Functional Design
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Develops functional designs for applications, integrations, and conversions.
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Ability to work on multiple functional areas and integrations with third-party products
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Keeps up to date with industry trends and vendor capabilities to produce robust functional designs
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Reviews functional designs and obtains signoffs with the cross-functional business and IT teams
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Provides inputs into business processes based on design capabilities
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Champions sustainable, forward-looking functional designs
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Learn and adapt to new technologies in a short duration
Testing & Test Design
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Execute System integration testing.
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Coordinate user acceptance testing for new systems or enhancement releases
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This involves assistance with the creation of test cases and follow-up to ensure users complete testing per the schedule
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Coordinates integration testing validates test cases with stakeholders for user acceptance testing and training and obtains signoffs
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Coordinates defects clarification, triage, and coordinate resolution with engineering teams
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Performs Mock close on financial systems
Project Management
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Manages small to medium application releases and projects.
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Manages stakeholder expectations
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Design release scope and schedule in line with a business goal, prioritization, and IT capacity
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Work with the team of analysts and leads implementing new cloud business applications for Equinix
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System Configurations
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Configures applications in line with business goals
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Designs forward-looking configurations by recognizing future needs aligned with the business roadmap
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Develops configuration standards
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Day to Day Support (Production Support)
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Supports and trains junior resources and oversees quality in triage and troubleshooting practices
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Leads troubleshooting efforts on critical issues with cross-functional teams through the resolution
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Identifies improvements to address repeat issues
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Training and Change Management
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Works with functional leadership teams to set expectations and conduct planning and execution of SME training activities
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Defines, communicates, and implements support and engagement plans
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Analyzes adoption rates and issues and assesses business case realization and proposes solutions to improve
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Provides Adhoc training to various financial users on key financial applications.
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Vendor Management
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Manages/leads individual consulting resources as assigned
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Participates in vendor advisory boards and user groups
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Executes medium-scale vendor evaluations, pricing negotiations, and software acquisitions
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Prepares management communications and gets stakeholder input for recommendations
Qualifications
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Bachelors degree in accounting, Finance, IT, or a related field
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8-10 years of experience working within the finance and accounting organization of a large multinational company
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Strong written and oral communication skills
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Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities
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Willingness to travel occasionally if needed
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Preference to computer science, mathematics, Accounting, and related fields of study
Minimum Qualifications
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Worked as Systems Analyst or Support Analyst for Oracle fusion ERP application modules
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Extensive expeiance in SOX and Audit process
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Experiance in RMC and UAC application module will be big plus
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Clear undetstaing on the Oracle Security and access architure like roles and access sets
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Techno functional experiance in supporting the Oracle integrations and extensions
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Ablity to develop/write complex SQL to extract the data from Oracle Fusion Applications
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Have in-depth finance functional knowledge to understand business requirements and convert them into technical solutions
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Good analytical and problem-solving ability
