Business System Analyst

Job Description:

This is not an IT role. This is a finance functional role in the Finance Digital Transformation and Governance (FDTG) team, within the Controllership, Assurance & Operations (CAO) organization. As an individual contributor, this position will interface between technology teams and finance process owners to provide finance requirements, validate solutions, assess impact to finance processes, provide change management and have strong risk management abilities, with a view to enable business for new launches requiring development of back-office finance systems and to provide assurance over system changes to the finance leadership. 

This position is expected to have deep accounting process and domain knowledge, representing an E2E finance point of view with an ability to translate complex accounting requirements into system requirements, review of solution design, and validation through testing. The position will require strong cross-functional skills with a point of view that operates at a consistent quality and standard considering existing system architecture and design decisions, existing and future processes, inherent risks, and accounting. Primary systems in focus for this position are Item design systems, Billing and Revenue systems, Oracle eBusiness Suite and Revshare platform. 

The individual in this role must demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of Quote to Cash and Revenue accounting processes, strong project management skills, ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and exceptional change management and communication skills. This individual must demonstrate good business sense, use data to drive decisions, be an independent thinker, team player and a trusted partner. Ability to collaborate with a wide variety of teams, communicate effectively at all levels within the organization, skill with quantitative/qualitative analytical methodologies and tools, ability to quickly research, understand and document new processes and requirements are foundational needs for success in this role.

What you'll bring

Education:

• Bachelors degree in Accounting with minimum of 7-10 years of functional finance/business systems experience or equivalent experience

Experience:

• At least five to seven years of Billing, Quote to Cash, Revenue, Accounting, Financial system implementation experience, with experience on requirements documentation, solution review and testing validation as a functional lead
• Experience on Oracle BRM, RevStream, Partner Revshare systems and Oracle R12 or similar systems (such as Zuora, Billing Platform, Oracle Revenue Cloud  etc.) preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Skills particularly important to success are-

• Accounting and financial domain knowledge. Deep understanding of AR, Revenue and Deferred revenue accounting and associated transactional flow
• Strong “systems and process orientation” with demonstrated analytical thinking, organizational skills and problem solving skills
• Project management skills with a proven track record of delivering projects
• Excellent written and verbal communications, presentation and influencing skills, including the ability to raise issues appropriately to the right level internally and externally to resolve
• Able to speak “accounting” and “technical” languages for the right audiences
• Ability to influence people and indirectly manage a team of people to ensure the effective execution of complex initiatives
• Ability to navigate complexity well and demonstrated experience managing across functions to accomplish large scale goals
• Must be comfortable working in cross-functional teams and willing to voice their opinion
• Must be savvy to understand both business/accounting needs and the technologies to implement them
• Have experience identifying systemic and process risks and how to mitigate those discoveries

How you will lead

Deliverables:

Finance Requirements Document – Translate complex accounting guidance and processes into system requirements. Consider end-to-end business processes, transactional flows, associated accounting impacts and required controls. Thought partner with teams to provide clarification on accounting implications and process impact, but with a system/automation perspective. Attend requirements gathering sessions, draft and deliver complete and accurate finance requirements documents, signed off by process owners being represented. 

Solution Review and Signoff – Provide point of view on solution leveraging end to end knowledge of accounting processes and controls. Provide transparency on significant design decisions and process changes to finance stakeholders with point of view on risk, resource and financial impacts. Validate solution for financial implications while providing point of view on system design, gaps and deferrals with inputs on prioritization and manual workarounds.

Testing - Align on testing approach and scenarios with tech teams, a view towards financial risks mitigation and testing the solution for finance requirements. Validate testing evidence for accuracy of accounting results, as needed. Lead User Acceptance Testing coordination with process owners.

Change management - drive overall change management, communication and training to accounting process owners throughout the software lifecycle development process; goal is ‘no surprises’ for our stakeholders. Final deliverable being process hand off document to manage knowledge transfer to process owners.

Release/ Issues Management – Have a risk based review of monthly system releases, identify system issues with a point of view on financial risk and manage prioritization of backlog items and defects for resolution.