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The Financial Business Analyst II plays an important role in maintaining, designing, developing, and implementing systems for use within the Finance Department. The Analyst works closely with Finance team members and other stakeholders to identify and define their needs to support functional operations, user job functions, and day-to-day financial system needs. This includes planning, testing, and analyzing software programs and applications as well as building and maintaining reports within our financial enterprise systems. This role involves the frequent exercise of initiative and judgment.

Job Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Support business users, maintain, and troubleshoot Finance Systems including, but not limited to, SAP, Oracle General Ledger, Lawson ERP, Hyperion/Essbase, and Oracle EPM (Planning, Free Form, and Profitability and Cost Management)
• Work with business users to understand requirements, build and maintain reports based on their specifications and needs
• Document procedures and write training documents
• Work from high-level or detailed requirements, to design, develop, test, and implement a variety of operational and analytical reports and dashboards
• Create queries against tables used for data profiling, troubleshooting, and tactical ad-hoc reporting as needed
• Assist with research, identify, and analyze the requirements of business users
• Participates in systems requirements definitions testing, training, implementation, and support
• Adheres to process guidelines, policies, and standards
• Monitor software performance on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging
• Administer critical analysis of test results and deliver solutions to problem areas
• Work with team for efficient implementation of new software products or systems and for resolution of issues
• Provide day-to-day support to business users
• Performs reconciliations on a periodic basis
• Assist with maintaining SOX documentation and walkthroughs with Internal and External Auditors
• Support project testing, working with the QA team, logging test results, and working with the Technical Services team
• Performs other relevant job duties as required

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance Systems, Business Management, Finance, Accounting, or a related field
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working in Finance Systems, Finance, or Accounting
• Experience working with any of the following systems: SAP, Oracle, Lawson
• Experience with system implementations or upgrades
• Experience with General Ledger, Financial modeling, and/or Reporting
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Experience working in a fast-paced high demand environment
• Outstanding analytical skills (numerical, verbal)
• Knowledge of Financial modeling, accounting, and reporting
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Must be self-driven and motivated
• Strong teamwork ethic, positive proactive flexible attitude ability to take complete ownership of responsibilities
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects/tasks of varying complexities, meet deadlines and work well under pressure
• Strong verbal and written communications
• Flexible and adaptable to learning and understanding new technologies
• Effective interpersonal skills and relationship-building skills
• Detailed approach to tasks with strong documentation skills
• Ability to conduct research into software-related issues and products
• Able to communicate effectively with non-technical staff and with members of interdisciplinary teams
• Ability to present information or perform training to a small group
• Ability to work in geographically dispersed teams